Decorating for Halloween

Kolton has been asking me when we are going to decorate our house for Halloween.  I don't know why but I just don't decorate for any holiday except for Christmas.  He really wanted some cool Halloween decorations so I decided to let him decorate his room.  First thing we did was decorate his door.  I had seen someone do this to their front door and thought it would be cute and easy to do to his door.  He could cut everything out which made it perfect for him to make! We didn't have green streamers like the one I saw, but we did have blue and I thought it would be fine like that.  

Kolton had so much fun cutting everything out and taping it up on his door.  I think it turned out awesome! 

 I then took him to the dollar store so he could pick out a few other decorations for his room.  He got a glow in the dark bat, a huge spider, a glow in the dark spider on a web, a pumpkin you can decorate, some Halloween garland, and a ghost paper lantern.  He thought it was all really cool! 

 We then cut out some of our own bats out of paper to hang up in his room.  He did great cutting those out too! 

We had a lot of fun decorating his room for Halloween.  And he loves it, which makes me love it! :) 

Quick story:

Sunday evening Kolton and I were talking about something and I told him that he didn't know something but that I was his mom and I did know.  He lifted up his hand and looked at his palm and said "I have a smart detector.  Let's see...Yep! I know!" I couldn't help but laugh.  A smart detector?! Haha.  

Campfire

On Friday night we had a campfire at the Grandma and Grandpa Brammer's.  We had to go late to it because we were waiting for Mia's owners to come pick her up.  (We dog sat a great dane from Sunday to Friday while her owners were on vacation.) They got there at about 6:15 or so and then we headed to the Brammers at 6:30ish.  We got there in time to do s'mores.  I was so excited.  I love campfires and s'mores! 

Kolton is just so adorable!  

 He had a hard time getting his mouth around the s'more and ended up giving up after a few tries.   

 I then would find him sneaking chocolate bars and just eating those plain instead.  

 These boys had so much fun.  They loved that they could just run around and have a good time.  They played chase and played with the bikes.  

                                                       

 After it got dark and we were just sitting around the campfire the boys wanted to tell scary stories.  Kolton told his first story to Brady.  It went something like this...
"Once there was a little boy who had a dream.  He was scared of monsters. In his dream there was an alligator.  The alligator was mean. But then there was a dinosaur.  The dinosaur ate the alligator.  Then the boy was scared of the dinosaur.  But the dinosaur couldn't run because he ate the alligator.  The end." 

 Grandpa Brammer also told a story.  As he was telling his story Jeff had snuck up behind the boys and at one point he roared at them and they all screamed.  London apparently has faster reflexes than Kolton and Pierson because this is when Jeff screamed and London is the only one reacting to it at first.  Haha.    

 Grandma told a story too and had the boys come up and help her.  

All the boys ended up telling at least one story to all of us.  They were hilarious!  

We had a really good time sitting around the campfire and I'm glad we were able to do it! 

Student of the Month

This last week at Kolton's school they were raising money for a needy family.  You could pay $1.00 and dress up each of the days.  

Monday was mismatch day.  Kolton tried to go as mismatch as he could.  He was so funny as he was picking everything.  He thought it was hilarious and he kept saying that everyone was going to laugh at him.  And then he'd giggle.  

He wore mismatching shirt and shorts, two different socks, a tennis shoe and a church shoe and then he wanted to do half his hair spiked and blue and the other half not.  

I love this picture of him in his mismatch outfit.  He's so crazy! 

Monday night as part of fhe we went to the park and went on a walk.  We brought Xara with us and walked to the playground at Little River Park while Kolton rode his bike.  He played for a while and then we walked back around.  As we got close to the parking lot we stopped at a field and played frisbee.  Kolton got pretty good at it.  As we were playing frisbee it started to sprinkle a little and then a little rainbow showed up.  It was awesome! 

 Kolton has gotten really good at coloring.  He works so hard to stay in the lines and he does really well! 

Tuesday Kolton came home with something extra special.  He was chosen as "Student of the Month." We were so proud of him! It is just great to know that he is a good boy at school.  I think he's awesome :) but it is nice when others recognize that he's a great kid too! 

 We told Kolton he could pick somewhere to go get a treat and he picked Cherry Berry so we went there for him to get a treat.  While we were at the Big Wheels Race we got a bunch of coupons from Cherry Berry for 3 oz off so we used that and so him picking Cherry Berry was perfect! :) 

That night we also went to Madison's volleyball game.  This was her last home game of the season and we hadn't been to a game so we thought we go see her play.  Kolton had fun playing with his Hulk toy that he absolutely loves! 

Wednesday was "crazy hair" day so we spiked his hair all over and sprayed it blue again.  (I'm definitely getting my money's worth from that little bottle!) He's so cute! 

 Thursday we went to the park with the Foys.  It was PERFECT weather for it and I'm so glad we went! The kids had a lot of fun playing! After the park we ran to the Foys to borrow Kade's cowboy costume from Halloween a couple years ago because Thursday was "dress like a cowboy" day.  Kolton LOVED it and thought it was super cool to have facial hair.  Haha.  

He wanted to make angry faces for me.  

  Seriously cute! :) 

I also helped at the book fair at Kolton's school on Thursday as well.  His class ended up having a pizza party too since his class bought the most pizza from Marco's last week for their pizza night.  He was so happy he got 2 pieces of pizza! :) 

That night Brady and I went to the temple.  It was stake priesthood night so I tagged along with Brady.  Brady's parents watched Kolton for us.  They had to come get him at 4:00, though, because they were driving to Stillwater for Madison's last volleyball game.  I told Kolton he was going to go on a road trip and all throughout the day he kept saying "rope trip." A couple minutes before he left to go with them he asked me "Mom, why do you keep saying 'road trip?' Its 'rope trip.'" Haha.  It was funny.  Brady and I had a great time at the temple! Afterwards we helped clean the temple and then we went home.  Brady's parents weren't going to get home until 11:00 or so so they said he could stay the night.  He ended up falling asleep on the way home and stayed out of it when they brought him in.  He then slept until about 8:45 or so and I went and picked him up at 9:30 on Friday morning.  

Friday was pajama day at Kolton's school.  He looked so cute in his robe.  :) 

He had such a fun time dressing up throughout the week and I'm glad money was raised for a family in need. We are so proud of Kolton and the choices he makes.  He was also "student of the week" at school this week and was able to bring some pictures to school to show all his friends.  He thought that was pretty cool! 

The Weekend

Saturday was such a busy day for us! It started with a cold and rainy soccer game for Kolton.  His game was at 10:00.  It was all drizzly that morning but when his game actually started there wasn't any rain at all so it wasn't bad! Kolton's team did really well and won 14 or 15 to 0 (the Y doesn't keep score, but I do! :)).  Kolton and Kade each scored 4 goals.  Andrew Himes scored 1 goal and then blocked a goal from the other team.  Then there were two other kids on our team that score a few goals each.  Anyway, they played really well and it was fun to watch!  

 We came home from the soccer game at 11:00 or so and showered and got ready for Pierson's birthday party at 1:00.  Brady came home from work and we left and went to the party.  It was an OU football party.  Vanessa had asked me if I'd help paint all the kids faces (there were a ton of kids!) so we did that at the beginning.  Each kid got to choose whether they wanted a football or OU on their face.  They then played games and ate food.  At the end of the party they were all outside and Brady went and played football with them for a good 15-20 minutes.  He'd throw the footballs high in the air and they'd try and catch them.  Everyone seemed to have a good time! 

We left there at about 3:15.  

We went home for about an hour or so before we headed to Moore's Big Wheel Races.  They had to move the event inside the community center because it was all rainy outside but it was still fun.  They had different booths and activities kids could do.  We met Mark and Jill Himes and their kids there at about 4:45.  Jill even got in on the action and did some hula hooping and won a pie.  :) 

 They had free helmets there so we got one for Kolton.  He wore it around almost the whole time we were there.  :) We also visited the clowns and he got a belt and sword.  

 They also had free food there (burgers, hotdogs, chips, drinks, sno cones etc.).  

 Kolton tried to hula hoop. It took him a few tries but he started to get it. He'd make it go around him a few times before it would start to fall.   

 The Foys got to the races at like 5:30 I think but it was so crowded that Brittney stayed over by the door with her stroller and Sterling, Kade, and Emery came and sat by us.  I tried to save them seats behind us and had put my stuff on the bench but then a family came and another person moved all my stuff and told them they could sit there...I was so caught off guard that I didn't say anything.  Haha.  

 Waiting for the races to start...

 Kolton and Andrew happened to be put in the same heat and in lanes right next to each other.  They were in heat 3, lanes 6 and 7 for the 4 year olds.  

 Kolton has never rode a big wheel so he was concerned he wouldn't know how to ride it but we told him he'd be fine and that it was really easy.  Turns out, when the race started, his big wheel wouldn't move.  Haha.  Brady and the lady running it had to give him a push to get him going.  He still had fun, though! 

 Kade raced in the 7th heat, I think.  It was a fun night for the kids! I'm glad we were able to do it! 

I snuck the kids back on the track to take their picture together.  

Kolton, Kade, Andrew

We got home from the races and Brittney came to our house and we changed and got ready to go to the Relief Society broadcast.  Jill came by and picked me up and we headed over to the church.  We got there as it was starting and so the only seats available were on the very front row.  Not a big deal except our necks hurt by the end from looking so far up to see the speakers.  Haha.  It was a good meeting, though.  The speakers talked a lot about finding comfort from Christ in times of hardship or trial.  A lot of speakers spoke about children and babies dying.  President Eyring even talked about his granddaughter that was just born 15 weeks early and only weighed 1 lb 11 oz.  A lot of their stories brought back a lot of memories of Lillian and how at times I've felt completely overwhelmed by the sadness of it but have received a lot of comfort from my Savior and testimony of the plan of salvation.  

Sunday night Kolton helped me make no-bake cookies.  I seriously stink at making chocolate chip cookies so I figure you can't mess up no bakes.  Haha.  Brady had let Kolton help him make lunch earlier that day and had taught Kolton a bunch of cooking safety so Kolton was excited to remember and use his knowledge again.  :) 

 I let Kolton drop the cookies on the wax paper and he decided to make it in the shape of an A.  

It was a busy, but very fun weekend!