Motorcycle Building

Last week, Kelly was telling Hudson that he used to love making model cars and airplanes when he was little.  Hudson immediately asked if they could make one together.  So, Tuesday night we hopped in the car and headed to Michaels.  All of the cars and planes were too hard, but they found a motorcycle to try.  Hudson could not wait to get started when we got home.  He patiently sat next to Kelly and gave him the pieces when needed.  Kelly quickly realized that even this set was too hard, but they had a great time building together.  I see many of these in our future!  :)

My boys with their finished product...so proud!  (Excuse Hudson's pizza face!)

Turkey Shirt!

Hudson's class made turkey shirts a few weeks ago to get ready for their Thanksgiving Feast at school this past Thursday.  I had to snap a few pics of him wearing his shirt before heading out the door.  He was thrilled, can't you tell??  :)

Halloween 2012

I am laughing at myself because the first several pics of our Halloween this year are pictures of food!  We started off the morning by making ghost pancakes:

 Hudson then asked for a jack-o-lantern pancake.  Hmm...I tried my best, so I get an A for effort, right??  :)

 Then, we did our traditional jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's. Such a fun dinner every year!

 Hudson had swimming lessons earlier that day, so he took a bath while the pizza was cooking and went ahead and put his jammies on.  We just put his costume on over his jammies, so when we got home he was ready for bed.  Yes, I thought this was genius!  Ha!  He was so cute because when he got out of the tub, he asked for the comb to fix his hair.  He did his Superman hair all by himself!!  I thought his "curl" looked great!  :)

 My precious Superman ready to GO!

 Striking a Superman pose!

 Showing those muscles with Daddy and Mommy.  (Don't ask about the pumpkins...he kept moving them around??)

 We ended up walking around with the Tigert family and Aday family.  Hudson had so much fun trick-or-treating with Stone, Rowan, and Ella.  Here the boys are walking into a "haunted house" down the street.

Halloween 2012 = SUCCESS!  He ate one piece of candy and then the tired Superman went straight to bed!  :)

Class Halloween Party

Hudson's class Halloween party was the day before Halloween this year.  I was in charge of the snacks for the party, so I got a little creative via Pinterest to come up with some healthier snacks to try to fit in with his school's guidelines.  The night before, I made these banana ghosts which turned out SO cute!!

 I also turned little cuties into jack-o-lanterns.  I did these last year too and just couldn't resist!

Each kid got a jack-o-lantern and a ghost...

 ...and then they got to take a witch finger!  These cracked.me.up for some reason!!  

 His class eating away!

 Hudson took eating his ghost very serious!  Ha!

Owens Farm

I have been taking Hudson to Owens Farm every Fall since he was a baby, and this year was no different!  Last Monday, we went with Jessica, Stone, and Rowan and had a blast.  Since Hudson has always been such an animal kid, I think this is by far his favorite pumpkin patch.  He loves feeding the goats every year.  :)

 He was very serious on the hay ride this year. :)

 Picking out the perfect pumpkin.

 He and Stone posing for us.

 The funniest part of the day was when the workers came out to pick up all of the yucky pumpkins.  Hudson and Stone immediately started helping them and were SO in to it!  After helping collect the pumpkins, the guy even let them throw some of them over the fence for the horses to eat.  I think they had more fun "working" that day than anything else that they did.  So random!!  

With Hudson starting Kindergarten next year, I am really trying to soak up all of these days where we can do fun stuff like this.  I know it will be a whole new ballgame next year!

Pumpkin Carving

Last Sunday after church we decided it was a good day to carve our pumpkin.  I drew on the face that Hudson picked out and then Daddy started carving.  He had an excellent helper by his side.  :)

 He loved his Jack-o-lantern!

 Then we got to work pulling out the seeds.  He was much braver than in years past...he dug right on in this year.  

 Noni even joined in the fun.  After about 10 minutes though, Hudson said he was bored and wanted to play.  Typical!  

PJ Day & Pumpkin Party

Hudson had pajama day and his pumpkin party at school on October 25th. He picked out  his dragon jammies to wear.  :)

 I am putting together the silent auction item for his class, which is a cookbook that I am making on Shutterfly.  I needed to snap a few quick pics of his class for the book when I dropped him off.  Aren't they cute in their hats and aprons?

 Definitely the cover for the cookbook.  Ha!

 I went back to his school later in the afternoon for the pumpkin carnival.  I helped with the acorn painting station.  My little guy was crazy when it came to shaking the container...watch out!

 One more class picture to round out the day!  :)