Okay, this post might be a little long, sorry.
The past month or two have been a little busy for me. Tuesday afternoon I realised that we had not carved pumpkins. So I sent Kendall to the store to pick out pumpkins for us. Poor Noah was so upset that he didn't get to go and pick out his own pumpkin. (He had a phone conference with his teacher and couldn't go with Kendall.) Kendall came home with this pumpkin that had all these growths on it. It looked like it had warts growing on it. Noah was happy about that.
Daniel was so excited to carve pumpkins until we told him he had to clean out the guts! Kendall forced his hand in the pumpkin and he was MAD!
Look at that stink eye he's giving Kendall! I love it!
He is totally grossed out by this!
Last year Emma would have nothing to do with cleaning out the pumpkins, but this year she did her own and took pity on Daniel and helped him out.
Noah's never had a problem with cleaning out his pumpkins!
Emma with the face she drew on her pumpkin.
Some of the pumpkins were really tough this year. Kendall broke out the power tools to speed things up. I love Emma in the back ground holding her ears!
Of course we can't carve pumpkins without having carameled apples. Sorry I didn't get any pictures of the finished product...
Friday night Kendall and Noah went to the Museum of Flight's Spooktacular sleepover. They opened up the museum and they got to spend the night inside museum. They had a lot of fun! Noah was a ghost (minus the makeup).
Noah taking his backpack up to the room where they would be sleeping.
Noah showing off his bumper sticker.
Kendall and Noah.
Noah had a wonderful time. He came home with a new t-shirt with a space shuttle on it.
On Saturday night we went to a Halloween party. A guy from our church has a big barn and some property. He decorates the barn and has a carnival and hay ride. This year he invited a lot more people and I heard that they were expecting 700-800 people! After being there I believe that was pretty accurate! All my kids wanted to be ghost this year, how lucky am I! The picture above is Emma and Noah doing the cake walk.
The kids on the hay ride. The driver was not very experience with the tractor and we got stuck, Kendall ended up getting out and pushing. It was very muddy! When the tractor get stuck in the ditch the trailer we were on tilted on it's side a little and Emma kinda freaked out. I have to admit I was a little worried at first that the whole thing was going to tip on its side! This picture was taken before the ride started moving. It was an adventure!
What a sad little ghost! I think she was cold, tired and she didn't' have any ketchup for her corn dog!
They had cotton candy. Noah saw some kid walking around with cotton candy and he thought it was just part of his costume. He asked me what it was and I told him. I went and got some for him to try.
This is the look on his face after the first bite! I love it! He said "Hmmm, that's weird, it's kinda cottony."
They had a band playing music in the barn. It was so loud, I wish they had turned the sound down. My mom got Noah to dance with her. I think he thinks dancing is soooo silly!
Noah took this picture of Kendall and I when we got home. We were a pioneer couple. The kids had a good time. There ghost costumes where no longer white at the end of the evening because of all the mud! I can't believe Halloween is over and now we are planning Thanksgiving and Christmas! Where did this year go???
We always start decorating for Christmas right after Thanksgiving. The kids love putting the tree up and looking at all the ornaments!
Jacob sat and watched this year but next year he will be right in there with us!
Emma got to put the angle on the tree this year!
We decorate Gingerbread houses every year. This one was Noah's. He worked really hard on it and I think it turned out to be the best.
I think Daniel put more candy in his mouth then he did on his house!
I didn't get any pictures of Emma's house, but she sure had fun! It was a fun night and the kids were very hard to get to bed because of all the sugar!
On Christmas Eve we have one of our favorite traditions, the Mary and Joseph dinner (sorry no pictures this year of the dinner). We enjoy eating lamb, figs, dates and olives with bread and olive oil. After dinner the kids got to open their Christmas Eve gifts which were the usual PJ's. This is Emma in her new jammies and also showing off her new scarf my friend Amanda made for her.
The kids "settling down" for bed. It took several tries to get them all looking at the camera and not making silly faces!
They got new toothbrushes in their stockings. Daniel went straight for the chocolate, so that toothbrush with come in handy.
Jacob was so happy this morning and was very content to watch all the excitement!
Noah was so sweet this year and made gifts for everyone. Emma and Daniel got little elves made from little pots and were filled with M&M's. Daniel ate all his really quick!
He painted this pot for us to plant chives in this spring. It's so cute with the little bunny hanging on the side.
Jacob looking at his gift from Noah. 
Noah made him 2 bibs. They will come in handy as he is drooling all the time now!
Noah got a new game from my grandmother.
Emma was so excited to get a fishing pole!
Daniel scored big time with new tractors, and tons of new cars! He spent the whole day occupied with them.
He got an aqua doodle from my mom and I love it!
Noah spent the morning playing with his new Erector set. He loves to build things!
Emma got a new baby doll which she names Zoe. It's a very large doll and she loves carrying it around and dressing it in Jacobs clothes.
Emma got a Tinkerbell dress up costume from my mom. She really enjoys playing dress up so it's perfect for her!
Emma liked putting her baby doll next to Jacob. I have to admit I had to take a second look a couple times today seeing her carry that baby around dressed in Jacob's clothes!
Kendall got Noah a Lego mind storm set and this is the hug he received for it! Noah has talked about building a robot for years and now he can build and program to his hearts content.
Noah spent the afternoon and evening working on his first robot. It looks around and see something and shoots little marbles at whatever it sees. It's pretty cool and the kids were dancing around trying to get it to shoot them.
This is just a cute picture of Jacob sitting on the couch today. 
Emma just had to get in the picture with him. Over all it was a wonderful day, and the kids had a great time playing with their new toys.
