It’s not too early to be thinking Halloween, right???

Okay, yes I totally know its too early, BUT I love Halloween.   I started thinking about it early, I suppose because we are headed to Disney the week after Halloween, and my little girl who is OBSESSED with princesses right now, can be a princess and use the costume again for Disney.

Anyway, as I was looking for costumes, Liam was up on my lap.  I was asking him what he wanted to be for Halloween.  I’m not sure he even remembers Halloween, he does still play dress up in his knight costume from last year though.

He starts saying, “I wanna be a boy witch”.  I thought this was a bit odd…a boy witch.  My mind starts drifting off to warlocks or maybe he saw Harry Potter…wizard, maybe magician?

I start going back pages to figure out what he saw, and then I found it!

 

THE BOY WITCH

 

Will someone explain he has the wrong holiday?  I suppose we can reuse his again at Thanksgiving dinner.  I tried to convince Braeden that he could be Squanto, but he isn't biting.  Oh well...I suppose we do have three more months!

The kids loving on each other

Gotta love moments like these!

Giving Eskimo kisses…ignore Brenna’s crazy hair!

A Day at the Beach

Yesterday we headed up to the beach with the kiddos and my nephew Lochlan.  My sister is in Costa Rica on a mission trip (my mom is watching him) and we are trying to keep him busy.  I will say that two 2 yr olds, a 4 yr old, and 6 year old really love to drive each other crazy.  They did have fun at the “ocean” (Bay City State Park), the water was really gross, we didn’t venture out there.

We were actually there for our family reunion, but the little ones didn’t stay still that long. Our family reunions are pretty small and they get there and leave within about 1.5 hours.  We were able to visit for almost an hour before heading off to the beach. It was a beautiful day and the park is really nice, BUT the beach is just yucky!  I wish they would clean it up one day.

Liam had fun playing in the sand, Braeden and daddy dug a hole, Lochlan played in the hole. Brenna wanted to keep going to the water. The girl has no fear.  Lochlan fell off the picnic table and bumped his ear, thankfully the swelling is down today.

We were sooo tired at the end of the day, chasing them all.  I guess that might also have to do with the 10K that my mother and I ran that morning.  We will have to remember that next time!

                              On the boardwalk on the way to the beach.

                          Liam holding Brenna’s hand, something they never do, so I had to take a pic.

                         Nice pic of Braeden and Lochlan

                          And their goofy face one….you have to let them have this one to get the goofies out so they will cooperate with the nice one later.

Braeden in the hole, he refused to be buried any more.

A very quick moment when they were in the same place at the same time.

                           My boys in the hole!

                        Liam on the go at the beach.

                       My sis wanted some pics emailed to her of Lochlan, I thought she would enjoy this one of her son’s wedgie!

                     Rare pic of mommy and Braeden.

A bit of Red, White, and Blue

We had our annual 4th of July party and had TONS of fun!  Sharing a few photos from the day.

I keep cracking up at this one…as Brenna dumped the whole thing of sprinkles.

My cuties!

Sweet……………………………………………………AND

Not so sweet!

Attempt at group photo…..maybe next year!

Serious

And happy!

The kids are always happy when cousin Melissa is over.

And a dirty Liam hanging out with cousin Nicole.   They do have 19 cousins, just on Ed’s side.  Just one lone cousin on my side.    

Hanging out with Aunt Amber (my sis)

Liam with Daddy….hope he wasn’t trying to get a sip!

And a funky purple firework we made for Brenna today….our firework pics were nothing spectacular, but Brenna loves the color purple.