Gibbons Family

Well it's about that time...you know, the time when Aubrey and I come out of the apparent cave that we hide in and let everyone know what we have been up to. Well to start Aubrey is still loving her job. I am still trying to get my computer repair company up and running....it's slow but I won't give up hope yet. Also we found out something else:

That's right. We are pregnant. We are so happy!!!!! As you can see in the first pic (so it's not very clear) That's our baby!!! On the bottom those little squiggly looking lines are the recording of the heartbeat. It was the best thing ever. We both almost cried when we heard it. Well I will try and keep everyone informed on what's going on from here on or I will get on Aubrey about keeping up with this thing.

This last weekend David, Alanna and I went to Kris and Jamie's house to watch the kids while they went to Vegas. We came prepared with a ton of activites and had a great time!

Pumpkin Painting

We brought a little kit that came with tiny pumpkins and paint

and let the kids go to town!

Kylee

Cameron

Ashlynn

Tristen

Kaleb

Sierra

Alanna

They had so much fun, and were very proud of their pumpkins!
They all did a great job!

Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin

We bought this cool game, the kids loved it!

I don't remember who won but they had fun!

Create A Costume!

I thought it would be fun for the kids to create a halloween costume for a carnival we were going to go to later that night. We brought brown paper bags, glue and a ton of stuff. The kids were really creative and made some fantastic costumes

Ashlynn decided she wanted to be a princess with a beautiful hat.

In the background Alanna is helping Kaleb try on his Mummy mask and Sierra is working on her Angel costume.

Here's Tristen in his Swamp Monster costume complete with extra eyeballs!

Kylee's working the wand for her Fairy costume.

While waiting to go the carnival we celebrated all our creativity by eating this cupcake cake, delicious!

And then we decorated the front yard with spooky ghosts!

Carnival Time!

The kids did such an amazing job on their costumes!

Kaleb-Mummy, Tristen-Swamp monster, Ashlynn-Princess, Kylee-Wood Fairy, Sierra-Angel and Cameron is Spider Man! *lol*(I wanted him to be a robot but he screamed when I tried to fit him for a bag costume like Tristan's)

Kylee and Sierra made some really cool wings with David's help!

When we got to the Carnival that first thing the kids wanted to go on was this huge blow up slide.

You've go to admit, it's pretty cool looking! Cameron wanted to go on too but when it came down to it he wouldn't go.

The next slide we saw was a tall Bat man slide, I think that's Ashlynn coming down...?

Here comes Kaleb!

Next is Tristen...

..and here's Cameron! He went on this one with no problem!

There were a lot of vendors set up and most of them were giving out candy, here's Ashlynn sneaking a piece.

I just loved Sierra's wings! David cut out the pattern and Sierra glued the feathers on all by herself!

Woo Hoo, Cameron caught something!

Here's Ashlynn at the craft table making a headband.

Kylee and Sierra are decorating paper pumpkins.

Go Bella Squad!!

Alanna was such a huge help, she kept the girls occupied almost the whole weekend with the formation of the Bella Squad. The girls made up cheers and dances for hours on end!

Cookies!

On Sunday we made Halloween cookies. I took a pic of each kid as they cut out their favorite shape.

After the cookies baked we went to the park so they could cool down so we could frost them!

The Park!

Just down the street is a cute little park. We packed a lunch and pulled out all of the kids bikes.

To make it more festive, I used a cookie cutter to cut out halloween shapes in their sandwhiches. Sierra ate the middle of hers and I filled it with some grapes.

We bought all of the kids Halloween Crackers with prizes inside.

They all had a little spider inside and a whistle. For about 5 mins the peaceful afternoon was shattered by the sound of six whistles continuously being blown. The whistles were confiscated.

Frosting Time!

I filled plastic bags with different colors of frosting and cut a hole to make piping bags. Each kid got to frost 4 cookies. It was a blast and the kids did a great job!