Early Halloween fun!

This weekend we had some early Halloween fun. The kids and I go to the YMCA so I can work out and the kids are in the child watch room. The great part about this is the child watch is FREE! So when David is gone it is a great escape that I get. So they had a Halloween party for the kids on Friday. They had the kids come in costumes, the decorated treat bags, went trick or treating and played some games. Brooklyn is going to be Hannah Montana but I didn't have all of her costume yet and Landon is going to be Darth Vader. I didn't want there costumes used so we had some other costumes on them. When David went to japan he brought Brooklyn home a Kimono and Landon a ninja outfit. They had the younger kids like Dawson only go to a few people so I didn't get a picture of him.

Trick or Treat

That night me and David were able to go out thanks to our friends Shirlyn and Deven. We decided to make dinner (that David made that was really yummy) and carve pumpkins. David made a yummy dinner of steak stuffed with arugula cheese, spinach and bacon, mashed red potatoes and a green bean salad. It was divine. When it came time to carve the pumpkins I thought how hard can it be to carve a spider? David went straight to the book of patterns and picked one out. Lets just say his turned out much better then mine.

the skilled carver

The perfect pumpkin

What a fun date night

Staycation our little getaway!!!!

So the other day I took the kids down to the Hale Koa. It is a hotel right in the heart of waikiki. It is for military and reirees. The room was a great rate and it was a blast. My friend laura is with out a husband so her and her little boy eric came with us. . It was so much fun. We went down to the pool when we first got there. We were to busy playing to catch any pictures. We then checked into our hotel room. Got cleaned up and went out to dinner. It was nice to eat in an acutal restaurant. The kids thought it was cool to be in a restaurant. Then we took the kids over to the park they have there and let them play some more. While they were playing laura was so kind to walk down to the cheesecake factory for us and get us moms a treat. We went back to the room. The kids played some card games go fish and a really fun game called slpawhich. It is a fun game of making sandwichs. The kids were wiped out that bed time wasnt an issue. They went to bed and me and laura sat a talked for while we enjpyed a day well done and who could not be happy with a piece of cheesecake on front of them.

The treats

ice cream at the park

Dawson Fell asleep at Dinner

Silly girls playing around

The next day we went to the zoo and met up with our wards mothersgroup. It was a fun time it was super super hot. We learned a new lesson at the zoo this time

The tortoise's taught us a lesson today

Dress up in the petting zoo

I had such a fun time with the kids. even though it was only over night it was nice to forget the day to day stuff and go do things with the kids. It was fun to sit back and watch them have fun together and with friends. It was a great time to just get away. Thanks for a fun time kids.