Happy Halloween!

We had a couple Halloween celebrations this year.  The first was our Ward Trunk or Treat (pics at the bottom of this post) and the second was the actual Halloween trick or treating!  We had so much fun on Halloween.  Sheldon bought some dry ice and we had spooky root beer.  Jace loved it.  For dinner we had chili and corn bread.  Then we went to the clubhouse at the golf course for a Halloween Party.  They had games for the kids and took a family picture for us.  Then we headed out into the neighborhood (including Walmart) for some trick or treating.  We had Jace practice trick or treating a few weeks before so he could get excited about it.  I read him some books about Halloween and he put his costume on and would trick or treat to either me or Sheldon.  It was really cute.  He scored some candy ahead of time too.  He loves candy so he was in heaven come Halloween night.

Jace kept squinting when I was taking pictures of him!  He was a monster this year!

We walked over to the clubhouse for the party.

Jace loved the little games they had for him to play.

Walmart had trick or treating at all their different departments so we had to stop by and trick or treat at the eye center.

Jace loves coloring in daddy's waiting room, so why not on Halloween night?

This was Jace's favorite house and he stood in front of it for a long time.

I think he liked the train the most.

Candy time!

After trick or treating we came home and had apple cider and doughnuts!  We had so much fun!

At the trunk or treat I forgot my camera so one of my friends in our ward took some pictures for us.  She is a professional photographer so I was happy to get some good pictures of Jace in his costume.

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween Party

For Halloween I talked my friend Rebecca into hosting an adult costume party.  Our house is a little too small for entertaining so I told her I would help plan the party if she would host.  We had a blast!  Everyone came in costume, we played games, enjoyed good food, and visiting with each other.

We were 80's punk rockers!

This is Sheldon's alter ego.  :)

Winner of best couple costume-the Elderly couple.  We are going to have to steal this idea.

We had a doughnuts on a string contest and played the newlywed game.

Harry Potter professors and the baby was Harry Potter.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head

Ship Captain and Ship Doctor

Kitten and Mariachi (winner of best male costume)

Little Bo Peep and her baby sheep (winner of best female costume)

Elderly couple (winner of best couple costume... hilarious!)

Superman and Lois Lane

Punk Rockers

Mr. and Mrs. Incredible!!  Thanks Rebecca for the incredible party!!

4 Months in Shelton!!

Believe it or not, but we have officially lived in the same place for more than three months!  Wahoo!!  The last year of rotations really was a lot of fun but we are so happy to be in the same place for awhile.  Jace and I had fun at home this month while Sheldon worked hard at his office.  We did manage to squeeze some family fun into this month with all of the Halloween activities (more posts to come).  I am very busy with my master's program and doing my weekly homework and assignments.  Sheldon is the 1st counselor in the young men's presidency in our ward so I was pretty sure a young women's calling was out of the question for me.  So I was very surprised when I was  called as the young women's president in our new ward.  I feel humble, grateful, overwhelmed, and I have already found myself on my knees in prayer a lot trying to sort out how this is all going to work.  I thought I was already pretty busy!  On top of that, we are busily filling out our adoption paper work in the hopes that another miracle will come to our family.  Life is good, but busy at the Olsen's house! I guess you now know why my blog is a month behind. :)

We saw a crane in the lake this month and have watched it fish often.  Jace loves pointing it out.

Jace is almost potty trained.  We are still working on #2.  His normal household attire is just underwear now since he knows how to undress himself very well.

He's started hiding from the camera and only making silly faces when I get it out.

Our dog, Lucky, is always wanting to play or beg for treats.

Here we are taking advantage of the dry, warmer weather.  It rains a lot here so when it stops we make a dash for outside.

Jace ran and hid in his tent when I tried to take a picture.

We went to a pumpkin patch and Jace loved the animals and picking out a pumpkin.

Here's Jace with a chicken on his arm.  He's been talking about it all month.

He loved the reindeer.

He went down this slide a lot!

We went on a tractor pull to the pumpkin patch.  Jace was very impressed.

We had fun watching Jace run to all the pumpkins and say, "See, a pumpkin!"

When we got home we had fun carving them!

Every night until Halloween, Jace and Sheldon lit the Jack o' Lanterns and Jace begged to stay outside to look at them.

I decided to weed our flower beds and Jace had fun helping me.

Here are some high chair pictures this month.  Jace really doesn't like sitting in it, but food gets everywhere if he doesn't sit there.

We enjoyed going to Chuck E. Cheese this month.  Jace loves the popping the bubbles game.

Sheldon let Jace wear his wig that was part of his Halloween costume.  We laughed a lot at this!

Bath time!

Playing outside!!!

Please...no more pictures MOM!!  This is how Jace says STOP!

We bought a fire pit and we have had fun sitting outside enjoying our view of the lake.

Jace has figured out he loves walking on the counter tops.  He's started going to time out for this one!

We also enjoyed the bounce house again.  This is one of Jace's favorite places to play.

Don't event think about climbing up here!  Jace was caught red-handed.  This is how he is making up on the counter.  He's climbing and getting into everything these days.  He also figured out how to open the bedroom and bathroom doors, something I was hoping would take him a little more time to figure out!  He's one smart and determined little boy.