Federal Way Community Center Trick or Treat Party!

The community center where Kayden does most of his activities through put on a Halloween party and it was a lot of fun.  They had probably 15 different activities for the kids to play and when they were finished with the activity they got some candy!  It was fun and most of the stuff was age appropriate for Kayden and Charlie! 

When we first got there Kayden spun the wheel and got a handful of candy.

After the wheel Kayden tried throwing ping pong balls into glass jars.  He ended up getting one in, but the rest didn't make it.  

Once we were finished with that game we headed over to the inflatable slide!  There was hardly anybody in line so that was nice.  As you can see, Kayden refused to wear the part of his costume that actually made him look like a dog.  He eventually agreed to wear it, but it took a while.

After the slide, Kayden wanted to go fishing.  They had this, way too long, fishing pole for the kids to use and it was actual a bit dangerous.  They had to throw the pole over the wall, but the line was so long it tended to go haywire and if you were too close it was possible you'd get hit!  Luckily that didn't happen to any of us! 

Golf came next!  Needless to say, he didn't get a hole in one!  Oh well, he still got candy!

After that we moved on to bowling.  We went to this party with Charlie, Christy, Dean and Cindy, but because it was so crowded we ended up apart most of the time!

After bowling it was onto the cake walk!  That was fun, but Kayden didn't win anything.  Charlie did though!  :)

And this is where Kayden finally put on his dog hat. 

I think one of the last things we did was search for candy in hay.  I really was against Kayden doing that, but he really wanted too, so we said ok.  Kyle got in there and helped him look for it and that really helped with keeping the mess at a minimum and searching short!

We were finally able to meet up with my friend Shelley and her husband, Shane and their son, Blake.  Here are a few pictures of Kayden and Blake together.  How cute are they???

It was a miracle we were even able to get Kayden in his Halloween costume at all.  He kept telling me it was for HAAALLLOOOOWEEENNN only.  I really wanted him to wear it to the pumpkin patch, like he has done since he was a newborn, but nope, he wouldn't.  Oh well, maybe next year! 

We hope everyone enjoys their Halloween and any Halloween parties they might go to!

Pumpking Carving

Well, yesterday was the day for PUMPKIN CARVING!  Kyle, Kayden and I started off the morning with going to the pumpkin patch, and although, we didn't get any pumpkins large enough to carve, we still had a fun time.

 

Once we got home we went over to Cindy's for our scheduled pumpkin carving party! Christy and Charlie joined us and we got started. Kayden had a lot of fun. This was the first year that he was really able to get into it. Fortunately, our garden this year produced enough pumpkins for us to have plenty of pumpkins to carve, unfortunately for those carving the pumpkins were almost all the way solid!

One of the two mini pumpkins produced no seeds at all, and the other small one had a few. The larger pumpkins had a handful more than the little one, but still not a ton. After some hard work, the pumpkins were all hollowed out and ready to carve!

 Which tool to use???  Choices, choices!

Here is one of the finished pumpkins.  It turned out cute and so is that cute face of Kayden's!  I love his "fake" smile. 

What, you don't think letting a three year old play with a power drill is a good idea???

Charlie worked so diligently on her pumpkin and because of Kayden's nap we weren't able to stick around to see it finished.  I will need to get a picture of all the pumpkins when they are glowing and post it!

Cutting the Pumpkins

Jim and I grew pumpkins this year as part of our garden.  It was a lot of fun watching them grow from little, white, baseballs into large, orange pumpkins.  So, yesterday we gathered everyone and headed outside to cut the pumpkins free from their vines.  It was a lot of fun watching Charlie and Kayden get excited about it. 

It was fun.  The kids enjoyed it and so did all the adults.  It'll be fun to carve them!  Can't wait.