Pumpkin Carving

The boys spent the night at Nana's on Saturday so that mom and dad could go to a Poker Game with friends. For something to do Nana let the kids pick out pumpkins at the local Walmart. Jeremy helped carve the pumpkins and even roasted some seeds. The next night we took the Jack-o-Lanterns home and placed the lights inside. Bryce had the Pumpkin headed man on a horse and Kyle had the Boo Ghost.

Geocaching

To kick off the "Walk Across Arizona" we joined in on a Geocaching event. During the next 8 weeks all 4 of us will be recording our "steps" and watching as our steps add up to walk the 410 miles across Arizona. The boys were super excited to do their first Geocache event. If you are unfamiliar with what Geocaching is it is like a modern day treasure hunt. The goal is to find a Cache with a Handheld GPS unit and then remove an item from the box. Typically you replace an item with something else but since this was a special event it was just the fun in finding all the treasure boxes and finding what is inside. The 1st box was a bit hard to find but once we did the boys we ubber excited. It was a HOT day but we found all 8 boxes and we had walked over 4000 steps in about 2 hrs.

The boys are HOOKED. We are now looking into Caches near our home and will be looking for Caches when we go off-roading.

Crazy Hair Day

Today was Crazy Hair Day at school and since I was an organizer of the event and co-president of the PTO I figured I would get in on some of the fun. Last night I did some internet searches for ideas to do for crazy hair day and found a great tip for keeping a lot of hair sticking straight up on my head. Since I wanted to do something with some Dum Dums I bought at the store I thought of a DuM Dum Sucker Tree. So I placed a water bottle on top of my head and rubber banded my hair to the top of the bottle. IT WORKED. So Mark drilled some holes in the bottle so I could stick the sucker sticks in the bottle. This morning I placed the bottle in my hair then sprayed it pink, hunted for holes to stick the suckers in and then sprayed it again with a glitter spray.

EVERYONE loved my hair. Tons of kids asked for suckers! I really did have a great day and even wore it that night to Halloween Bunco.