Halloween Day

Instead of going Trick-or-Treating (Halloween fell on a Sunday this year). We got together with some of our friends and had a little Halloween party. We let the kids dress up in their costumes, had dinner and decorated cookies. Nothing to big but still fun to get together with friends.... gives us a reason to eat some super yummy food! :)

Halloween

This year for Halloween, Landon was Mickey Mouse and Lashae was Minnie Mouse..... I wasn't going to dress up, but the primary was doing a Carnival for our ward and they asked if I could do one of the games. I decided I should at least get into the Halloween Spirit, so I pulled out my old Egyptian Princess costume....
It was a really fun night, the kids played lots of games and then went trick or treating around the class room doors and got loads of candy!

This is Lashae playing tic-tac-toe with bugs

Landon's turn!!

Lashae and her friend Makena, both dressed as Minnie Mouse!

Halloween Surprise

Landon and Lashae got a special Halloween surprise in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa Christensen.
They are always so excited to get mail but this was even more exciting because it was CANDY!!!!
They each got a card, M&M's and a marshmallow treat.... Landon's was a spider and Shae's was a kitty.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!!

Happy Birthday To ME!!!

I have to start off my saying.... I Have some Pretty Awesome Friends!!!
These LOVELY Lady's took me out for my Birthday! We had SO much fun!!
They started out the night with a buzz at my door, when I answered they were singing Happy Birthday! We ate at Gusta's for some yummy happy hour food and a fun round of silly questions!
Then it was off the the Bowling Lanes!! This was not your normal bowling game, NO! This was some serious girls night out bowling! we did a different style of bowling for every fame...

1-Professional Bowler
2-Between the Legs
3-With Oven Mitts
4-Blind Fold and Spin
5-Cha-Cha-Cha
6-Lefty
7-Laying Down, push with hands then feet
8-Granny Style
9-Backwards
10-Your own Creativity

The blind fold and spin was the funniest! It's a little hard to know where your going and make sure you keep it in your lane :)

I'm sure we were fun and entertaining to watch!!!

I hope not as funny as these guys though....

When we got to the bowling ally, we had to wait for a little while for a lane to open up.
While waiting.... we couldn't help watch these guys playing Dance Revolution and laugh.

They were pretty good but it was Funny watching them.

They were all dressed down and had a coach and everything!

It was Very Entertaining!!!

This was SUCH a fun night and one of the Best Birthday's Ever!!! Thanks Girls!

Pumpkin Patch

Our trip to the Pumpkin Patch!!!

This was the best pumpkin patch! They had so many fun things for the everyone to do.
They had farm animals, pony rides, straw mazes, corn seed pit, all kinds of fun stuff! Landon was running from one place to another so excited and wanting to try everything! Lashae.... as usual was afraid of everything! only liked the animals from a distance, Screamed in the seed pit, and the only horse she would even think about touching was the yellow carousel one!! The kids loved playing and picking out their own pumpkins..... I however forgot my camera!... These are a few pic's my friend Lacey took of us while there.
AND!! We carved our pumpkins super cute but they only lasted a day before they turned to mush!!! Needless to say.... I didn't get a picture of them either :/ Darn Oregon Weather!! A well lesson learned for next year though!

Landon's School Picture

I Love EVERYTHING about this picture.
The Huge Smile, His Excited Eyes and my favorite... His Dirty Face!!!
I just can't help but laugh when I look at this picture. I even thought about having him do a re-take... but I new I would regret not having this picture. I mean how could I be sure I'd get that same cute smile????
He's just SO dang Cute!! Dirty Face and all :)

Landon Stanley Gillett
Kindergarten 2010

Newport Beach and Aquarium

For Stan's September break and our 8th Anniversary, we decided to have ourselves a family getaway! We took Landon out of school for a day and went to Newport. It was a really nice weekend.
We went to the Beach, let the kids play in the sand.
Landon LOVES the Beach! It's a giant sandbox to him. The water is another story... He wouldn't get his feet wet without screaming. He says, the waves make him feel like he's sinking...? While he was playing in the sand not paying attention, the waves snuck up on him and gave him quite the scare!
Lashae, Not a fan!! Surprised? Not me!! She would NOT stand on the sand, she would touch it with her hands but NOT her feet ??? So Stan held her so she could still play in the sand with the shovel and not get her poor lil toes yucky.

The next time we went to the beach she was a little more willing to play in the sand... only with her shoes on though :)

While in Newport we went to the Aquarium. It was Super cool, we all loved it! Our favorites where... the Shark Tank, Jelly Fish, Seahorses, and the Touch and Feel Area! Oh and Landon couldn't stop talking about the HUGE Crabs!

It was a good little Getaway!