Halloween 2014!!

This Halloween was by FAR my most favourite in a VERY long time! Probably since I was a kid myself!! I have never been a big fan of Halloween...I mean, I'm a teacher....copious amounts of sugar and children are a VERY scary thing!! What is good about that?! However this year I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Halloween with Sophia! 

It all started when I kept seeing cute Halloween outfits in almost every store we went into! Soooo being the sucker for any sort of 'theme' that I am, I decided Sophia needed a Halloween outfit for each day during 'Halloween Week'!! Ha ha...I know, I know...don't judge me!! 

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY
(Her special Mike outfit from Aunty Brit and Uncle Cody!)

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

On the Thursday before Halloween, Sophia and I hosted our Moms group at our house for a little Halloween party! It was pretty much the cutest thing ever!! Have you ever seen a group of cuter kids before?! They didn't last long in their costumes though!! 

Sophia and her BFF Harper!! Cutest lil piggy and ducky EVER!!

And lets be honest...this is how Sophia felt about the whole dressing up thing!! Ha!

Also...this is what our house looks like when you have 11 babies over to play!!

 Ha! Holy CAR SEATS!!

Our little ducky was in MUCH better spirits later that evening!!

On Friday morning Sophia woke up to a few Halloween goodies to celebrate her first Halloween!!

 Since she can't eat candy quite yet she had to settle for books!! 

And then it was time to get into her PEANUT costume!! Yes, Sophia just HAD to be a peanut for Halloween! We have literally called her our little peanut since the day we found out I was pregnant, so it was only fitting that she be a PEANUT for her first Halloween! I searched online for some sort of 'pattern' for a peanut costume...but no such luck! Sooooo I just made it up as I went along! And I was pretty pleased with how it turned out!! 

Cutest little peanut EVER!!

We headed over to my parents house for lunch and to 'trick or treat'! 

More books for Sophia!!

Lunch time! She wasn't too interested in that carrot! Ha!

Grandma and Grandpa with their little peanut girl!!

Uncle Kellen and peanut!!

Mommy and Daddy with our lil peanut!

Later in the afternoon we headed out to Damian's parents house to 'trick or treat' as well! And they were in costume! HA! I'm fairly certain Sophia was thinking 'WHAT THE ??' the entire time...ha ha

Papa and Pama and Peanut!!

And in the evening Kim and Anna stopped by for a visit! 

Sophia loves her cuddles from Anna!! She also REALLY wanted to eat her wand! 

And then Brit came by and brought BOO! 

Poor Boo was dressed up as a bee and was NOT feeling her costume either!! ha ha

Aunty Brit and Sophia!! 

It was a wonderful Halloween and we had a GREAT time making special memories with Sophia!!

Our trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

In the middle of October we headed out to the Pumpkin Patch with some friends! The pumpkin patch was located about 45 minutes out of Sherwood Park and I had been there many years ago with one of my classes for a field trip! It was a beautiful Fall day and we had a great time taking in all of the pumpkin activities!!

Sophia's first trip on a school bus! 

The pumpkin patch was SUPER busy on this day so we had to park in the overflow parking and then take a school bus to the main farm area!

They had hay bales decorated all over the farm! 

I wish I had taken more pictures of them all!

Welcome!

They had a little 'town' set up all around the farm/pumpkin patch! Since Sophia is still too little to do most of the activities we just walked around and checked everything out! 

And then we found the PUMPKINS!!

She seemed a little confused as to why I kept making her 'sit' among all of these weird bumpy things?! Ha!! Anything for a good picture right?! lol

Sophia liked feeling the pumpkins and of course she tried to put it in her mouth!! 

I think she will be a pumpkin pie lover like her mommy...

Look at those leaves!! 

My beautiful family on a beautiful Fall day!!

We picked out 3 mini pumpkins to take home that day!

 Sophia was pretty pleased with her pumpkin!

Helping Mommy read the map to figure out where to go next!

Pumpkins!!

Sophia and her BFF Harper just chillin on the hay bales!

Getting a picture of these two is never easy!! Ha! 

We bought lunch at the pumpkin patch and it was DELICIOUS!! 

Nothing beats a smoky, garden fresh potatoes and 

homemade pumpkin pie on a gorgeous Fall day!!

After lunch we stopped in to look at some more pumpkins before we left!

 I have seriously never seen so many pumpkins in my life!!

And a family selfie to end our day at the Pumpkin Patch!!

We can't wait to go back next year!! 

Halloween hand print crafts!

It's Halloween week! And to celebrate in the 'Kirchner House' we did some fun Halloween crafts! I LOVE all things crafty so I have been pppppatiently waiting for Sophia to be the age where we could start doing some fun crafty activities. And I know its just going to get better and MESSIER as she gets older! I headed to my beloved Pinterest for some craft inspiration and came up with these cute hand print canvases. I love how they turned out!! They are not only great Halloween decorations, but a wonderful keepsake of Sophia's teeny tiny hands and feet!

I picked up 2 canvas/easel sets from the dollar store! 

They were only $2 each! SCORE!

I used tempra paint and painted one all black and one all orange!

When they were dry I used a chalkboard marker to draw on the spider web and do the writing.

 If you don't have a chalkboard marker, you could totally use a white sharpie or paint pen! 

Next came the FUN part!! Ha!!

I made sure I had everything all ready and laid out before I got Sophia involved!

**Tip: HAVE LOTS OF BABY WIPES NEAR BY!!**

First we did her white 'ghost' footprint! It was easy peasy and she just starred at me while I put the cold paint on her foot! 

The black 'spider' hand prints were a little more tricky as she wanted to curl her hand up into a ball the entire time! Ha! But we managed to get decent hand prints onto the spider web!

The finished products! I LOVE them!!

Sorry this is sideways...I tried over and over to flip it and it just wouldn't work!! 

And a little 'bonus' picture of my Halloween cutie...

Happy Halloween!!

Now go make some FUN Halloween crafts with your little's!!