Halloween 2012 in Review

We started off our Halloween Celebration last week with the MOMS Club annual Halloween Party. They had a little fall scene and one of our photog Moms volunteered her time to take pics of the children! So glad to get a good shot of them. They're sooooo cute, if I do say so myself.

Cowgirl Bit and Space Rocket Boo

If you look closely, you'll see cheetoh dust all around her mouth. She was eating them nonstop.

I had to get this side shot so you could get the full effect.
ADORABLE!! She's IN LOVE with this horse. She would wear it ALL day if I let her.
In fact, I had to wrestle her out of it after the party to get in her in her car seat.

Face painting.

We carved our pumpkin while waiting ALL DAY LONG to go trick or treating on Halloween.
He INSISTED on this mummy design.

Doing "the mummy".

This is serious business.

Halloween Craft.

It was COLD!
We had to bundle up big time. I even wore long underwear!

Boo and horse fell in the snow right out of the gate.
Bless her heart.

The family down the street had been working on this snow sculpture all day before Halloween.
Very cool! Last year they made a turkey and pilgrim's hat in this same fashion for Thanksgiving.

Post trick or treating mummy pose.

Post trick or treating meltdown.

Waiting for trick or treaters.
She had on tights, leggings, and these socks. I couldn't resist taking a pic.

The horse is in the barn and she's ready for bed. But not before a quick kiss and snuggle with DaDa.

Some Videos.

 Boo had his paper bag costume parade at school the morning of Halloween.
We went with a red Lego design this year. Isn't he the cutest??

Cowgirl Bit goes trick or treating.

Takes me back to Boo's first time on the block.

BeBe sent me this picture of Sandy, Bella and Murray sitting pretty waiting to get their Halloween Treats that we sent them. Love them all so much!!!

 Happy Halloween Y'all!!

Brrr!

I'm almost caught up on blog posts!
We went to Talkeetna a few weekends ago and stayed the night in a cabin there.
We had an unexpected snow storm while we were there. At least, I wasn't really expecting snow. I knew it was going to be cold, but I thought it was going to be clear.
We spent some time walking around the lodge and then headed to main street to have supper.
Some locals were playing music inside. It was so cozy (despite Boo being bored and Bit being an almost two year old).

These dogs looked so thrilled to be running in the snow!!
Only in Alaska would you see this along the highway.

Hiking with BeBe

We went hiking one day as well. Sort of. It was a bit colder than expected and WINDY! It ended up being a short walk. But, still fun.

We caught hang trying to get them to look AT the camera!
I finally said, "LOOK AT THE TOP OF MAMA'S HEAD" (as I patted the top of my head).
And this is what they did.
I almost lost it with laughter with this one.
Monkey See, Monkey Do!

 

Love this one!

This is what Bit thought about all of the time I spent unpacking.

 

This one cracks me up.
BeBe took them to the park and she was going down the slide like this.

Boo testing out the playground equipment.

I haven't done a Go Tigers post yet this year.
So...GOOO TIGERS!

AK State Fair 2012

Last year BeBe just missed being able to go to the AK state fair. I think she left one day and the fair started the next. But this year, she was here and we were able to go one afternoon. For this adventure, we decided to wait until Lil Bit woke up from her nap rather than planning on her sleeping in the car. Much better plan.

We had perfect weather. Not too hot, not too cold. We had a good time and were all exhausted afterwards.

With BeBe and BOB (stroller) on our side, we were golden!
Boo is covering his ears b/c of a concert going on behind us.
He's not a fan of loud noises.

Lol.

Lil Bit LOVED the petting zoo!!

I think she's in love.

It was a JOY to watch her with the animals
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I don't have a pic of it up here, but there was also a sheep named SHEEPY at the fair.
If you don't know, Boo and Bit sleep with their own stuffed sheep at night. They are both named...Sheepy. So, it was cute to see a real life sheep named Sheepy, too.

PONY Ride.
Boo's horse was named Ninja.

Bit was on Lightning. She was so excited to ride until Lightning did one of those full body horse shivers, and then she was terrified.
Once they started moving, she warmed up...a little.

BeBe and Boo on the roller coaster!!
That's one hip BeBe!

Trying to get a pic of me with the kids and the mountains.
Lil Bit is off camera playing with one of those road construction saw horse thingys.

Portage Glacier

We'll be backtracking here on posts this week. I'm finally getting around to going through pictures and uploading them to the blog from when BeBe was here for our return to AK.  It rained A LOT while she was here. So when we had nice days, we tried to get away for a bit.  One such day, we took a drive south to Portage Glacier.

We saw a pod of beluga whales swimming in the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet on the way down there.
That was really cool!
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Boo and Bit on the glacier cruise. Bit did NOT sleep on the way there like BeBe and I planned. We paid for it too. Other than this pic where she's smiling, she was grumpy. Lol.

Portage Glacier behind us.

I love the glaciers!

Boo got to help some other children pull up a can of icy cold glacier water for the passengers to feel.

They had a fish tank on board with a piece of the glacial ice in it. It was to demontsrate that only 10% of the icebergs are above water. Pretty cool demo. I have no idea why the owl is in there too. Bebe, do you know?

It was a fun outing and a much needed break from unpacking. We really needed the day out in the sunshine.
Up next will be our afternoon at the Alaska State Fair.