Party time!

 

It was all about the Halloween parties for us this past weekend.  We were invited to 2 parties on Saturday night and they both started at 6pm.  One was a family party and the other was adults only, both were costume parties.  We all dressed up and headed to the first party at my friend's house in PV.  It's an amazing party each year and we all have tons of fun.  They have a dance floor, live animals like tarantulas & snakes, and a haunted house.  It's seriously insane.  Here we are heading to the family party

Yep, that's our daughter holding a live tarantula.

And our other daughter holding a live snake.

And both of them wearing snakes as necklaces.  SO creepy!  

 We then headed to the 2nd party of the night after we got the kids to bed & Mimi came over to babysit.  It was a great party with awesome costumes and great food.  Dylan & Stacy rigged up a real life electric chair that gave people quite the shock if they dared.  It was too much fun!

Cute 70's couple.

Getting shocked by the chair.

Can't stop laughing after the shock is delivered.

Boys will be boys.

Pumpkin Update

Cory carved another pumpkin tonight.  I was just informed that the bat/vampire one we did the other night was Ryan's choice.  Tonight we did a werewolf for Reese.  It took Cory an hour to carve it out but it turned out awesome!  The pictures don't do it justice but I'm posting them anyway.

Artwork du jour

Ryan's masterpiece

Reese's masterpiece

Reese & Ryan were painting on the "weasel" today (they now call it easel and it makes me sad, so I'll still call it weasel for nostalgia purposes).  They were painting at the same time on either side and it was funny to watch them paint because Reese is left handed and Ryan is right handed so they looked like true mirror twins today.

Pumpkin Fun

We have been in the Halloween mood for some time now since every day is costume/dress up day at the Whyte House, but there's nothing like carving pumpkins to get you in the Fall spirit.  It was a team effort for awhile and then Cory took over with the carving.  We traced one of those crazy patterns and it turned out great.  Here was our pumpkin adventure last night:

Start it off, Daddy!

Stand back while the artist works his magic.

Hoping there's something good inside here.

Not really what they bargained for.

Pumpkin guts!

"I hope I can wash this off my hands soon."

Teamwork

"What do you do with this thing?"

"I think I figured it out.  I'm going to bang it on the floor and then try to eat it."

Yummy!

"Hey! Let me get in on the action"

Ewwww!

"I"m not so sure about this."

The finished product.  Good work, Daddy!

Even better with the lights out.

Fall Festival

The girls' school had a Fall Festival this weekend and they had tons of fun dressing up as Little Bo Peep and her sheep.  I borrowed the sheep costume from Holly hoping that it would fit Ryder but it was too big.  Instead Ryan put on the sheep costume and Reese was Bo Peep.  They looked so adorable and had a blast with their friends at the festival.

Playing with her candy vampire teeth that Papa bought for her.

"How do my vamp teeth look, Mimi?"

We love Mexico

This has been a busy month and the girls were out of school for 2 weeks, so we went to Mexico AGAIN!  This past weekend we had the Ryan Team retreat and stayed at Mimi & Papa's house in Rocky Point.  Down on Thursday and came back on Sunday.  It was such a relaxing weekend.  Cory had the chance to golf 2 days in a row and he was in heaven.  My mom treated me to a mani/pedi at the spa for my birthday, which was awesome.  The first night we arrived there was a storm and the wind was blowing everywhere.  It blew over by the morning and the weather was gorgeous on Friday morning.  We spent a few hours at the beach where the girls had their hair braided, ate mangoes on sticks, and got henna tattoos on their ankles.  The girls love the beach and swimming at the pool.  It's such a fun age where they love to explore and find excitement in the simplest things.  I love watching the world through their eyes. 

Ryan getting her hair corn-rowed on the beach.

Reese found a dead fish on the beach and carried it around most of the day.  Such a tomboy!

Mr. Blue Eyes

They also collected bird feathers.  Dead fish and bird feathers.  Ummmm, ever heard of collecting seashells?  Nope, our kids like dead animal artifacts.

Burial for the dead fish. 

Little fishies in the swimming pool.

My sleeping angel.

Birthday

It was my birthday on Monday.  I turned the big 3-2.  Pretty uneventful to have your 32nd birthday fall on a Monday but it actually turned out to be a fantastic day.  We hired a babysitter for Monday night and Cory & I went out for dinner at Blue Wasabi and then shopped around San Tan Village Mall.  The plan was to buy a Kindle at Best Buy for me but once we got there I decided I wanted a new lens for my camera.  We were playing with the gadgets in the store and having waaaaaay too much fun!  The Mac computers in the store had this feature called Photo booth and we spent a few minutes distorting our faces and bodies.  It was the most fun we've had in awhile.

Such a fun weekend

Our dear friends, Kyna & Eric, were married last weekend in Rocky Point.  We had such a great weekend celebrating with them and it was so fun to see Reese & Ryan as flower girls in their wedding.  They looked SO adorable in the tutus that Kyna made for them.   It was a beautiful ceremony and the couple looked so fantastic as they walked down the aisle together.  We really enjoyed our long weekend stay and can't wait to go back soon!  Here are some fun photos of our weekend away:

Me and Ryder boy enjoying ourselves at the rehearsal dinner.

Practice run to make sure they know what they're doing.

Four little cuties in the wedding.

I L-O-V-E this photo.  How beautiful is Kyna?!?  AND R&R did a great job with that banner.  So adorable!

 

 

 

 

 

9 months

Ryder boy is 9 months old!!  I can't believe it.  I know I am totally biased because I'm his mom but he's the cutest baby ever.  He is such a snugglebug right now and he LOVES his mama.  I'm totally diggin' the clingy behavior because I know it won't last forever.  We went to the Dr. this week for his checkup and he's doing great.  He weighs 17 lbs. 12 oz and is 29 1/2 in. long.  His weight is 10% and height is 90%.  Such a long skinny guy.  In clothes he can still wear 3-6 month pants but they are like capris because he's so long.  He is crawling all over the house.  He's up on his knees now, no more army crawl.  He pulls himself up on any stationary object he can find, but now he's figured out how to get back down so I don't have to 'rescue' him like I did before.  He still doesn't like baby food.  We might get him to eat one jar a day but the other meals he wants what we are eating.  He's learned how to drink out of straw and knows how to slurp up spaghetti noodles.  It's so funny to watch.  Every day is such a blast with our baby boy.