Halloween

We just had a super evening with Luke and Allison dressing up for Halloween. Here are some pictures from our night.

Daddy and Luke having from some before they went trick or treating.

Daddy and Allison. Daddy with his little bumble bee

Bruce lighting the candle in the jack-o-lantern

Luke (my little monkey) and Allison (my little bee)

Luke and his neighbour friend Owen all dressed up having fun together

Happy Allison

Allison eating some of her pringles after she was done trick or treating

Luke, Allison and myself

Uncle Matt came over to help take the kids out trick or treating with Bruce. I stayed home and handed out the candy.

Pumpkin Carving

Have a Happy Halloween everyone! We will update pictures of the kids in their customes later on in the week.

Luke deciding to wear his boat as a hat in the tub last night.

Today Luke, Allison and myself craved a pumpkin for Halloween. Here are a few pictures from our time together.

Allison and the jack-o-lantern. She did not want to leave it when it was lunchtime. She cried and cried for pumpkin to have lunch with us inside.

Luke and Allison and the finsished product of our pumpkin on our back deck.

Luke and Allison helping Mommy pick out all the pumpkin seeds, before Mommy starts to carve the pumpkin. Allison loved this part and Luke hated getting all dirty, he is such a clean freak. It must be a Hayhoe gene.

Our pumpkin prior to any carving, we drew the face on the pumpkin first so I knew where to cut out the eyes, nose and mouth.

A very HOT Thanksgiving weekend

This past weekend was very hot here. The heat started on Wednesday afternoon and it just broke last night. Now I know what you are thinking...how hot was it really? Well we hit 34 degrees on Sunday afternoon. When you walked outside you just started to sweat. It was like a July afternoon in October. This heat wave lasted 4-5 days.

We had a great weekend, even though Bruce did not get Monday off seeing that he works the States. Saturday we went for a boat ride on the Detroit river in our boat and I totally forgot to bring our camera. It was a pretty exciting boat ride. We went under the Ambassador Bridge that leads from Windsor to Detroit and we saw many huge lake freighters, Luke thought they were great!

On Sunday we went to church and then we came home and BBQ our lunch and ate outside. The kids were so hot we put them in their bathing suits and they went through the sprinkler in our back yard, it was nuts.....this is October not July! Luke and Allison had a great time cooling down together.
Then on Sunday night a friend of ours had a 30th birthday party in Harrow (about 1/2 outside of Windsor). They had tons of stuff for the kids to do. Their was bobbing for apples, a scavenger hunt, party favours and a great meal.

The heat just broke last night and we could finally turn our air conditioning off and open our windows. It was a great weekend. I trust you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend as well. Our family has much to be thankful for.

Here are some pictures from our weekend.


Luke and Allison having a very refreshing afternoon in the sprinkler.




Luke, Allison, Carter and Keria enjoying the bucket of apples.

Allison enjoying the kids roasting pan version of bobbing for apples.

Luke's version of bobbing for apples. When we told Luke he had to pick the apples up with his mouth and teeth from the bucket, he just picked up the apple out of the water with his hands and put the apple in his mouth and took a bite and then threw it back in the bucket and yells " I DID IT" It was so funny!

Luke and Allison together.

Allison with her party blower. I love this picture, she looks like she has Scooby Do's nose. So cute!

It took Luke a little bit to understand how to blow into the party blower to make the tongue pop out. Once he figured it out he had a blast.

My great and good looking hubby!

Nana and Stuff

There has been lots going on the past little while, I was called for jury duty, and then they excused me after I wrote a letter to the court stating I was pregnant with our 3rd child. Yes, you heard correctly, we are expecting our third child, our due date it April 1st, 2008. I have been feeling OK but I have had a few minor issues here and there. God has been good. We are just praying all goes well with this pregnancy.

My Mom is in Spain this week and she has been emailing us kids with daily updates on her trip. She is having a wonderful time with my Aunt Sandy. Their luggage got lost when they arrived, Mom got hers about 2-3 days later and my Aunt Sandy's is still missing in action. They can't track it at all. So my Aunt has had to buy some new clothes and underwear to survive her tour of Spain. While my Mom is in Spain, my Dad went to their home in Florida do to some painting in the bathrooms. I talked to him yesterday and the weather is hot and humid and rain every afternoon.

This fall I have started working Tuesday and Thursday mornings from home with my insurance business. So the kids go to day care while I work from 8:30am to 12:30pm. At first they both had a hard time leaving Mom but very slowly they are getting better and they really seem to enjoy the daycare. It is a french daycare so Luke and Allison are learning some basic words in French.

This past weekend we found a play house for the kids at a garage sale so we pick it up for them, and on Sunday after church we went to visit my Great Aunt Lenora in her senior residence home here in Windsor. We call her Nana, so she is Luke and Allison's great great aunt. My Nana and Uncle Roy (he passed away a few years ago)raised my Dad so they are like Grandparents to me. We had a really nice visit with Nana and the kids loved being in her so called castle with an elevator.

On Tuesday morning as Bruce was driving to work he called me on his cell phone and let me know there was a picnic table at the end of a driveway on our street and he wanted me to go and check it out. So after I dropped Luke and Allison off at day care I drove by and low and behold it was a picnic table in great condition. I went to the people's door to see if I could take it, and they said go ahead. So I loaded it in the back of our mini van and drove it home. The kids love it and want to eat at it all the time. We have had and are going to have some very hot days here for the weekend, so I am sure it will get used quite a bit in the next few days.
Here are some pictures of our past weekend.


Luke and Allison with their new picnic table.

Look Mom an airplane in the sky....Look!

Allison in the new toy house

BOOOOOOOO

Allison hanging out the window

Luke and Allison watching the fish in the fish tank at Nana's senior residence home.

Nana and Allison hanging out with the frog. Allison took the frog out of the garden to play with.

Luke and Nana

Luke, Allison, Nana and myself

Luke and Allison loved Nana's walker. Allison decided to climb up on the seat and Luke just loved to push her in it in Nana's room.