Family turkey projects

Both Lana and Tanner came home with a Family Turkey Project for school. We were to disguise the turkeys as anything we wanted and were encouraged to be creative.




Paul took off with Tanner's turkey and made him into an excavator driver. The scoop moved and everything. I did remind Paul that Tanner needed to do something with the turkey too so he had him color the feathers. Tanner was absolutely thrilled with it and was sad he had to leave it at school.



We let Lana choose what she wanted to do 100%, I only helped with some cutting and gluing. Hers was a ballerina princess complete with fluffy skirt made of some left over Easter basket filling.

Halloween

The week of Halloween for us is always extremely crazy. We had a birthday party, 2 class Halloween parties, Ward Trunk or Treat/Fall Festival, Elementary school Fall Festival and a neighborhood Halloween party. I pretty much forgot my camera at all of these events but did at least remember to snap some pictures of Lana and Tanner in their costumes. This was right before the Ward Fall Festival. We had some intense thunderstorms move through that night and so we didn't "trunk or treat" but had it inside around the building. Lame since we actually bought stuff to decorate our trunk this year! Oh well. Paul won the prize for best festival booth, he made a putt-putt hole-in-one game which turned out looking like a real putt-putt hole.




Tanner absolutely loved being Lightning McQueen this year. It's a cheesy costume and Paul didn't really like it but Tanner didn't care about it being cheesy. There were no complaints from him at all. Lana was a beautiful snow princess. It was perfect this year because the actual Halloween night it was pretty chilly.




At our neighborhood party we all gather at the playground, eat, laugh, do a hay ride around the neighborhood and then trick or treat. Well, Paul found this full body gorilla costume at Dirt Cheap and the other dad's in the 'hood asked Paul to spook the kids on the hayride. It was hilarious. There are 3 boys who were talking the whole time on the ride about Big Foot and how he lives in the unfinished portion of our neighborhood in the woods. Paul jumps out and scares the kids silly. We had a good time at the party.


We only carved 1 pumpkin this year mostly because we were so busy we didn't have time to do the rest, plus pumpkins around here don't last very long. 2 days later they grow mold so we carved this one, enjoyed it for a day and it went out with the garbage on Wednesday. But we still have our other un-carved pumpkins for "fall decorations".

I normally enjoy Halloween but this year I am so thankful it's over. I'm tired of hearing the phrase, "I want candy."

Tanner and his naps

It really just depends on the day and how Tanner is feeling if he ends up taking a nap or not. I have stopped trying to put him down in his room as that usually ends in frustrating the both of us. So now he enjoys finding places in which to lay his head. I snapped this picture the other day, we had been sitting outside on the back porch. Tanner was laying on the cement. I brought him inside to lay on the couch thinking he would fall asleep there. Then my phone rang. I stepped into our computer room thinking Tanner would fall asleep and was on the phone about 5 minutes. I walked into the living room finding Tanner gone. I checked his room to see if he'd gone in there to sleep but no Tanner. After scouring the entire house I found him on the back porch fast asleep. To his credit it was a really nice day outside.



Once a while back it was a Sunday afternoon and we'd just gotten finished eating lunch. It was around the time where we all unwind and take our naps. I had finished cleaning up and hadn't heard Tanner in a while. I asked Paul if he'd seen him and he said no. So we start looking for him around the house. Nothing. The front door was locked so I knew he hadn't gone out there. We checked the back yard. Nothing. I'm getting a little nervous at this point but went to look in our room again. I had looked earlier but had only seen a bunch of blankets on the floor in the closet. I took a closer look and found Tanner fast asleep under that bunch of blankets.

Most of the time Tanner takes "normal" naps but on occasion he mixes it up and finds new places to crash.