Halloween Party...

Tonight we went to an awesome Halloween party. Halloween has kind of snuck up on us this year so we weren't really prepared with costumes, luckily the kids aren't too picky so we used some old costumes from the other years.

Kaysha decided she wanted to use my costume from last year and be "Sally" from Nightmare before Christmas.

Gage thought it would be fun to be a "Nerd". He put this costume together by himself. I think he did such a good job!

Zane couldn't really decide what he wanted to be (doesn't surprise me) and I didn't feel like going out to buy just anything at the store so he decided to be a "smartie pants". He might decide on something else by the time Halloween comes.

Jace fell in love with Zane's old "spider man" costume the second he saw it. Here he is bored waiting for everyone to finish getting ready.

Cyra found Kaysha's old "Pegasus" costume a couple of weeks ago and decided that was what she wanted to be... that is until we were at the store today and she saw all the other cool costumes...

This is the ONLY picture I got of her the whole evening. Oh well, hopefully I will do better on Halloween night.

Here is MY "Edward"...

I think this was the funniest costumes of the night. Here are the "Simpson's" a.k.a.The Lowrys. Take a look at Russ... Jace was scared of him most of the night.

M"Auggie" is going to kill his parents for this!

There was a pumpkin carving contest. Well, it's not really a contest when James is involved. Here he is trying to hurt himself.

1st Place pumpkin skull head

Gage taking after his dad...

Gages cannibal pumpkin

Zane carving his pumpkin...

Zane designed and cut this all by himself. I think James is going to have some competition in a few years.

Kayshas pumpkin

In order from left to right: Jacob, Bella, Edward. Yes...I WAS dressed up!

Jacob and Edward fighting it out over Bella...

He got over it when he set eyes on this beautiful girl. It was love at first sight...

(Beauty and the Beast)

Thanks for the fun party! Can't wait for next years.

Birthday season...

Between birthdays and the holidays this is the time of the year that we seem to be having one party after another. We love every moments that we get to hang out with all our friends. On Wednesday it was J-RADS (a.k.a Jared) birthday, so of course we had to throw him a BIRTHDAY party.

While he was at work we snuck down into his place and decorated it with balloons, streamers, signs and treats. The kids we so excited that he was going to have a party down there...that is until we told them it was a grown-up only party.:(

You can't have a party without sour patch kids, peanut butter M&M's and chips/salsa...

Here is Darin demonstrating to Jared how he should be wearing his new gear...

For dinner we met some friends over at the new Olive Garden that just opened up a couple of days before. We expected it to be so crazy there, being opening week, but it was great. It was so fun and relaxing, even though poor Darin and Darcie had frozen lemonade spilled all over their table, and Jared didn't get his meal until everyone was just about done eating...it was still a fun night.

After dinner we planned to go back to Jared's for cake and ice cream but that didn't happen since we were forever at Olive Garden (we got there at 6:30 and left at 9:30). So only a couple of us went back to his place to watch the new Brian Regan DVD (This guy is hilarious... if you don't know who he is look him up!)

Since we didn't eat the cake and ice cream Wednesday night the kids all got to go down to Jared's Thursday after dinner to sing Happy Birthday to him and eat the cake... (oh yeah... and drive him crazy as they all ran around!)

Jace waiting patiently for cake...

Cyra eyeing the piece she wants...

Happy birthday to you....happy birthday to YOU... Happy birthday dear Jared...happy birthday to YOU!!!

You're awesome Jared! Thanks for being such a great friend to all of us and for all that you do!

We love you!

The Jensen Gang