Whoo the holiday season from Thanksgiving to today has been a fun time. We where very busy with traveling to Texas for Thanksgiving, family sessions, weddings, and having family at our house for Christmas and the week after. Mike and his sisters had a great idea for a gift for Grandma and Grandpa Gunderson, a hot air balloon ride. How fun! It was on Ed's bucket list. They where excited. The ride was at sunrise and Mike and Luke went along to get some wonderful pictures.
Here are the balloons filling up with air.
A pretty cactus balloon.
Ginny and Ed's balloon.
In the basket and ready to go.
Up, up and away....
Now the hairy pary as Ed said...landing. That is Luke in the corner running to them.
Ahhhh Grandma and Grandpa Gunderson. Mikes parents are so wonderful. They have been married for 41 years. They said they loved the balloon ride.
I enjoy Halloween! I love the anticipation of the cooler weather, pumpkin seeds, the colors, dressing up and having kids just adds to more of the excitement. I think one of the blessing of having kids is they help you be a kid again by enjoying the simpler things and moments in life.
This was Clara's first Halloween and she is teething. She has a tooth and a 1/2 on the bottom and her top two are getting ready to brake through. She has a had a mild fever for a few days. So she wasn't the happiest cow in the farm this year but she was the cutest!
Clara started waving high a few weeks ago. So cute. Every morning she waves hello to everyone.
And a cute smile....
We had two fun filled days of wearing costumes. Sunday our church had some fun bouncers, trick or treating and food. Luke probably had the best time. He is 5, the perfect age for fun filled bouncer slides and obstacle coarses. He actually had 3 fun filled days. He attends pre-school 3 days a week and absolutely loves it. Friday they had a pumpkin patch and decorated the pumpkins with glue, glitter, and stickers...a recipe for messy fun.
I like to do crafts. I saw this craft last year while trick or treating and loved it. I found directions on Disney's Family Fun website . Super easy, Luke helped and Selah colored one. The Gunderson kids drink allot of milk so we had plenty of milk jugs laying around.
I had plans for Selah to be a duck for Halloween. We had a cute costume from when Luke was her age but she cried and cried on Sunday when we tried to put her in it. Luckily I had some super cute Halloween PJ's with an orange skirt for her to at least be festive in. When she was dressed in that she started calling herself a princess. Which was really funny because she has never seen a princess movie...well Tangled. We had an old tiara and poof a Halloween Princess was born.
Here are a few pictures of the kiddos before we left for trick or treating. Luke was a Ninja. It took him awhile to figure out what he wanted to dress up as but what sealed the deal was when he found out Dayne, his cousin, was going to be a ninja. Anyssa had her appendix removed last week so she wasn't up to dressing up this year. She handed out candy while we took the little kids around the neighborhood trick or treatiing.
The kids where exhausted after only two blocks of trick or treating. Selah did so good. She said trick or treat and thank you to almost everybody.
Here is an end of the night video....I hope you enjoy it, it took forever (like 5 hours to uploaded to youtube).
And one last picture to scare you! Well I might scare you. Mike and I went to a friends surprise birthday costume party Saturday night. We literally through our costume together in like 10 minutes well maybe 15 with the stop for a blond wig and red lipstick at CVS. We went as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love 90's style.
Anybody recognize the sweater Mike is wearing? I save allot of clothes from my youthful days. You never know what you can use to through a Halloween costume together.
