Cake decorating contest!

The kids had a cake decorating contest for the school Fall Festival Cake Walk on Friday. I've never done it before because it seemed like a lot of work---I was right!  But it was a lot of fun too.  Here are pictures of them with their cakes---I messed up on the vines on Sadie's pumpkin so it looks a little like hair, but if a pumpkin was to actually "have" hair, it would be green and look like vines, right????? :) Briggs wanted his spider to be a black widow which totally freaked Sadie out---he loved that!  And Liam wanted to replicate Brigham's tank cake and guess what? Liam won 1st place in the 3rd grade for cakes!!! He was so excited!!!  It was fun and worth the headache of it all! :)

Briggs is 5!!!

Briggs turned 5 on the 26th and had a fun birthday. He LOVES army stuff and so we made this cute Army tank cake...so easy and the kids loved it, especially Briggs!  He told me that night that it was "the best day ever...that cake was so cool, Mom!"  Ok, so my heart melted a little bit and made me forget all the times I want to strangle him (gently of course)---moms need those paychecks of the heart sometimes!!!  His party was fun though...target practice with the nerf guns, paper airplane distance contests & lots of fun with friends.  Thank you to everyone who made it a perfect day for our favorite 5 year old!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Here are our cute little spooks!  Sadie was a devil (really? she's just too cute and nice!) , Liam was Harry Potter (big shocker----but we actually sprayed his hair black this time!) Briggs was Curious George (he was going to be an army guy until we got costumes on on Saturday...go figure...I'd love to know what goes on in his little mind!) and Lydia was a butterfly. She LOVED trick or treating and it was so funny to watch her running down the street from house to house. The homes with dogs couldn't get rid of her...she just wanted to play with the "goggies" but as soon as they got close to her she was afraid!  When her bucket got full she keps saying, "It's heavy!"  So cute!!! Hope your Halloween was FUN!