Tuesday, November 1, 2011

No-bake Date

Jake took the car to work the other day so Bubba and I got to hang out together all day with nowhere to go and nothing to do! So we made some fun out of it! We read lots of books and played bad guys. The best part was getting him to help me make some No-Bake cookies. I put Jake's apron on him and we got right to work. Of course he made a mess but it was so fun watching him pour and stir and smile the day away. And the result was that for once we actually had cookies in our house!
He's kind of a goofy little nerd :)

When I told him to come stand in front of the door and say cheese he insisted on sitting on that bag of sand (it sits in front of our door at night and protects us). Apparently he thought that spot would make a good picture- I guess he was right!

Captain America: The First Avenger

Ok well Captain America doesn't look extremely happy in any of these pictures but let's just say Halloween was a whole new experience. He really was happy though- just not for my camera!
Saturday night we went out to Uncle Brad's house and had a super fun party!
All the kids wore their costumes and then they went out to the corn maze for a hay ride and some fun on the slides. Jake took PW and I stayed at Brad's house and made some delicious peanut butter bars- mmmm.
Polo thought he was all kinds of cool in his Captain America costume. Can you believe I only spent $1 to buy the platter that turned into a shield and 50 cents for that red pair of socks that turned into "boots"?? Everything else I had left over from other projects! It was actually quite fun making that costume and I was pretty proud of it. He was too ;)Monday we went out to Grandma and Papa Afuvai's ward trunk-or-treat (thank heaven for these because I'm anti trick-or-treating!). He got to see hundreds (honestly, this is huge because it's the only one around) of kids in costume and he loved it. We saw lots of Batman, Spiderman, Skeletons, and even a mummy! He loved it!
His cousins came as a wizard, shark, dead bride, Mad Hatter, werewolf, and a vampire(she was gone already). I made super yummy wassail in the crock pot and it lasted for all the weekend fun! There were lots of treats and not so many tricks (though being parents of a two-year-old is pretty tricky!). We had lots of fun and Bubba really enjoyed it. Whew- on to Thanksgiving!