Happy Halloween 2012

Happy Halloween from the Cowser kids!

Alyvia is such a "poser"!

After we picked up Alyvia from school, we came home and carved our pumpkins....well, Livi and I did, Colson just "pay outsi" :) 

We waited for our friends Kristin and Lizzie to come over and we went trick or treating around Princeville.  It's so much more fun to go with friends!

Our butterfly princess & pirate Cole

Ready to go!

Colson wasn't so sure about dressing up, but he was so excited once he got out there!  The firetruck was driving around town handing out candy and it stopped in front of our house.  Colson was running out the door, saying "me who, me who, me who!"  He LOVES firetrucks and they were handing out candy too, double bonus!  He really got into the trick or treating this year :)  The girls were on the move from the word go-we had to keep reminding them to slow down and wait for the moms!

He tried so hard to keep up!

Getting balloons from the scary halloween house in town!

Ahhhh-scary spider (and scary Lizzie with glowing eyes!)

Colson lost steam about 2/3 of the way through.  He just cruised in the stroller the rest of the way home :)

The kids had a really fun night and we were so happy Kristin and Lizzie joined us again this year!  Happy Halloween!

Weekend in recap

We had a very busy weekend!  Saturday morning Alyvia and I went to the NICU Small Wonders Walk.  It's a walk to celebrate all the miracle babies from the NICU and a fundraiser sponsored by the parent committee.  It was the 6th annual walk, but the first time I was able to attend.  What a fun event to be a part of though!  It was great to see some of the families that I took care of and how amazing their kids are doing!  The event is really geared towards the kids and Alyvia had fun too!  Face painting, glitter tattoos, balloon animals and Julie K music-oh my!

Saturday night we went over to Caroline's house to meet up with my friends from college.  It tends to be a different kind of crazy when we all get together now....our kids are the wild ones!  The girls and boys are all about the same age and it tends to get a bit rowdy at times :)

Colson, Nolan & Austen....sometimes sharing is hard!

It was too crazy for Cole to be a part of!

We did manage to get a picture of the BU girls...but not without tears from the little boys that they couldn't be a part of it too!

Maybe next time we get together, we can have just a big girls night.......maybe in 10-15 years!

Today Anne hosted a "sprinkle" for new baby girl!  She decorated so cute with the "sprinkle" theme everywhere :)  Sprinkle donuts, sprinkle cookies, ice cream with sprinkles, sprinkle favors-loved it!

Alyvia dressed up and ready for baby sister's shower!

Look at all the diapers and wipes we got!

It is so exciting to celebrate baby girls impending arrival, she is coming very soon!  We can't wait!

Apple Orchard & Farming with Daddy

After we picked Alyvia up from school today, we headed out to Tanner's Apple Orchard!  We started off in the store and sampled some yummy apple cider!

Then we ate some apple cider donuts too!

We took our purchases to the car and then we walked around outside and played for a bit.

We had a fun time and then we headed up to Bradford to see daddy for awhile.  We miss daddy so much when he's gone farming all week :(   The kids were super excited to see him!

Colson and I took a ride in the combine with Papaw while Daddy and Alyvia hauled a load of corn in the semi.  The kids and I headed home after our ride-a-longs and had pizza for dinner.  We had a fun afternoon and we can't wait until Daddy home with us more often!

Wonderful Waffels!

This kid

loves his waffles!  EVERY single morning, he asks for his "wa".  Hey, at least he's eating something :)

Wedding Weekend Fun!

This weekend we went to Arlington Heights for my cousin Amy's wedding.  The kids and I left Friday afternoon and rode up with Nana and Papa because Daddy was farming.  This was the first time I took the kids to a hotel by myself, and shockingly, it didn't go terribly.  Livi slept great!  Cole finally fell asleep around 10 pm (after I threatened to make him sleep on the floor), but poor kid has been fighting a cold so he was up every couple of hours coughing.  He really did pretty good though.  Daddy came up on Saturday afternoon with Un Cha and Finnegan.  We got ready and headed to the wedding that evening.  It was at Arlington race track and it was a really neat place! 

Cole missed the ceremony-he wasn't being bad, just loud :)  Unfortunately, the wedding was late and Colson was tired....a bad combination.  Poor kid just couldn't hack it with being sick and up late :(  He did manage to eat most of his chocolate horseshoe favor....

 We were trying to stay so Alyvia could dance, but Cole started coughing, gagged and got sick.....all over me.  We had to leave immediately.  I felt so bad for Alyvia, she just wanted to dance at the reception.  She was so good about it though, very understanding and didn't whine about it at all.  I've been so proud of her attitude lately.  We went back to the hotel and Cole fell asleep about 5 minutes after he put his head down :)  We drove back home today.  It was a busy weekend, but I'm glad we got to celebrate Amy and Patryk's wedding-congratulations!