The Allen Family: October 2012

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Our annual Halloween Party!!!

Every year, my cousin Kim & I put on a Halloween Party for our kids. This year was the 6th year of doing it. It's my favorite thing about Halloween. Possibly the only good thing about Halloween for me. I'm a Halloween scrooge, but this is seriously fun. The kids look forward to it every year!

We had 6 activities (1 per child). They were inside the balloons. There were also Halloween jokes inside some balloons too.

Ghost catcher Game

Witch Pitch

This is our annual tradition. We always

build a veggie something. This year

it was a skeleton

Build-a-skeleton race

Pumpkin bowling

Halloween twister

Our Halloween feast! Complete with witches brew,

monster eyeballs, franky pudding, jack-o-lantern quesadillas,

and mummy-dogs. The first 2 years we did this, our kids

would NOT eat anything. We've come a long way!

Happy Halloween!

2nd Grade Field Trip

I volunteered to go on a field trip with Ashlyn's class a few weeks ago. It was pretty fun. It was also LOUD. I rode on the bus with her class. (Not sure if I'll do that again... I had a serious headache when I got home.) We went to a "farm". It wasn't actually a farm, more like a horse arena, but they told the kids it was a farm because they learned all about farms & agriculture. Overall, I liked the field trip. It's really weird to be living in the city and going on a field trip to a "farm" in order to teach the kids about farm life. I grew up in a little town in the country and Johnathan grew up on a dairy farm. It makes me laugh to think about either of us in Elementary School going on a field trip to a "farm". In Johnathan's case, I think about all the kids his age that were all helping out on the farm and them being "taught" where milk actually comes from. I think the kids would have been bored and could have even driven the tractor around! It makes me laugh and realize how far we've come in society... Anyways, it was fun and I did learn a couple things :)