Happy Halloween

The Hurtado family went to the dark side this year!

Darth Maul and Darth Vader with sound and
light enhanced light sabers

 

Slightly less scary while carrying treat bags

Daphne was ready to ditch her Vader
helmet after only one house

We ran into our neighbor Storm Trooper Jackson

PawPaw got the kids this Darth Vader pumpkin when he visited

Checking out their loot and sampling a few treats

Literacy Day

Tyler and Daphne's school held Literacy Day on Friday. In lieu of traditional Halloween costumes, the kids are welcome to come dressed as a literary character and they hold a parade. Tyler typically wears his Halloween costume since they are often both movie and book characters. This year I made the costumes for Literacy Day and think they turned out pretty good.

Tyler aka Charlie Brown

Daphne dressed up as the turkey from Sandra Boynton's
Blue Hat Green Hat, which is a family favorite board book

All decked out complete with beak

Turkey tail feathers

A witch?

Proof of Daphne's witchy side
while out shopping

Jedi Training

Last weekend Daphne's friend Jake had an awesome Star Wars themed birthday party. Jake's mom went all out on the games and themed food. Each kid had their own brown robe and started off as a Padawan. After completing all the training they became Jedis and got to bring home their light sabers. Here is a sampling of some of the activities.

Light saber training



On a mission to deliver secret plans

Shooting at Darth Vader

 

Taking swings at the Death Star pinata

Death Star candy!

Cub-o-Ree

Last weekend we went to Cub-o-Ree at the Smilin' V Ranch in Liberty Hill. There were tons of fun activities and an Indiana Jones theme. The kids got a stamp for each activity and a sticker for each artifact they found that they got to turn in later for an arrowhead. All in all a fun day with the scouts.

Tug-of-war

 

Water table

Blow darts

"Calf roping"

Daphne and I hung out while
the boys got to shoot BB guns at targets

Nerf archery

Daphne caught a grasshopper

Ready to shoot the rockets they assembled
(with a lot of help from adults)! The kids
were pretty patient waiting because there
were lots of problems with the 1aunchers.

 

Tennis ball catapults

Star Wars Hats

These Star Wars hats at Target are so much fun that I couldn't resist getting them for the kids.

Our Vampire

Daphne was very excited when she picked out
these pink vampire teeth from the prize box at school

Dinosaur Park

The kids had the day off school for Columbus Day so my dad took them to the Dinosaur Park in Cedar Creek while Michael and I were at work. The Dinosaur Park has a number of dinosaur statues in the woods and fun things for the kids to do.

Thank goodness the kids didn't hatch out of these eggs!

Digging for fossils

Barton Hills Farm

My dad and I took the kids to Barton Hills Farm over Columbus Day weekend. Tyler is getting a little old for some of the activities but he still humored us. Both kids loved the corn mazes. We started with the corn maze and then Tyler insisted we do the regular corn maze.

Ready for fun

Exploring the fort

 

Tyler could have played tetherball all day.

Cow train

Map of the corn maze

Making our way through the kids' maze

Tyler read to us all the pieces of the story of Spookly
the Square Pumpkin as we found them in the maze

Victory! We made it through all the mazes.

Pirate ship/sand box

Daphne proudly put her painted pumpkin on our front porch.

The Rat Racer