The Crayola Experience

We had a great trip to the Crayola Experience in the Mall of America. It was cool to create things and then see them up on big screens coming to life.

Lucy drew the rocket ship next to her.

Jaydon looking up at the name he drew on a computer program

Lucy's snowman

Kate with her swirly art

Jeremy proud of his Dad Rulz image

Jaydon cheering on the Hawks from MN

Part of the experience is getting to make a crayon with your own personalized name and image. Lucy made 3, below are the ones we made as a family.

Then we had the run-way and car show stage. Kids would decorate a picture and then they would put it up on the big screen. Lucy made the rainbow dress above, Jeremy made the man below and Jaydon did the car.

While the older ones were busy doing fashion and cars Kate, Papa and I got drenched with paint on the paint splash wall. It was great. We highly recommend going.

Happy Halloween

We had a fun and busy Halloween. We took the kids to our Church's big event. It was 3 floors of decked out themed rooms and fun. Then we headed home and trick-or-treated with some neighbors.

 Enjoying the Moana room

 Of course cookie decorating

Bouncy houses

Super heroes and Kate

 Events and activities galore

When trick-or-treating around our neighborhood we ran into Bob, Cash and Elvis, looks like they waited for trick-or-treaters too long.

 ahhhh....the loot!

Y Halloween festivities

We went back to the Y's party and took along Jaydon's friend who was over for a playdate. It was a fun evening.

Seussa-Palooza

Jaydon had a fun night at school for a Seussa-Palooza event. He got to take home free books and all 3 of them even got a cookie. It was a lot of fun and so great to see the different activities the school sponsors.

Fly Fishing Expo

I took Jaydon and Lucy to the fly fishing expo to meet up with Grandma while Kate stayed home with Dad and napped.  The kids had an ok time. Lucy enjoyed tying her fly, Jaydon wasn't as impressed.

Trick-or-treat

We had another busy but fun Halloween night.  My job at our church required me to be there all afternoon/evening helping host a big Trek or Treat event so Jeremy brought the kids to the event for the first part of the evening and then they hit the close neighbors for Trick-or-Treating. It was a great night for our pumpkin, princess and frog prince.

Y Harvest Festival

Jeremy was out of town for almost a week and a half straight so on Friday night I took the kids to get their flu shots, pick out my new glasses (that was a fun process with 3 kids) and then we went to a special dinner out and hit the YMCA's festival.  We all had a good time and enjoyed the YMCA fun.

Bad picture of our dinner adventure

My pumpkin, princess (Belle) and frog (he wanted to be a lizard but I couldn't find anything so we went with frog instead).

This is the face Kate gives you when you tell her to smile!

Walking on the balance beam to go through the tunnel

 

This was the face when she was told she couldn't eat all the candy right when she got it!

playing the games

 

Waiting in line for a balloon, our last activity and Kate was definitely getting tired.