halloween, trip to RM, and pretend

Halloween was fun. Granna visited a few days before and brought a couple of costumes she bought on sale last minute and this really worked out well being the slacker-mom I am who has never really gotten all that excited about this particular holiday.

Here is my little cow


...and sorry, but this is our only pic of Alder's Indian/Davey Crockett outfit while cruising the neighborhood with his friend Sylvia, the carrot.

We had a great time - Thanks Janet and Dan for joining in the festivities. I handed out raisins and granola bars to two families and then I think the word got out that the Bulluck house was lame...and our street is less exciting than others. We told the kids that we were looking at decorations and visiting neighbors in the moonlight. We were grateful for this likely last year we could hold off the candy intake - refined sugars weakens the immune system in this icky flue season that is just beginning.

Weekend before last we went to RM for a family reunion and had a great time. Here is Alder with his cousin Gabriella. She was so sweet to play with him and he loved the attention. The helmets are from the motercycle rides with PaPa.


We love you PaPa...Heath is enjoying the mirror and playing with his feet these days. Like the crack?!

Sweet boy with his daddy

We got creative this last weekend with a box we got in the mail - thanks Jamie for the wonderful presents for the kids! We made the box into a barn and Alder had a blast with this! We did not intend to do this, but we ended up showing him how to pretend. It was so fun to see him model our words and throw in some of his own. It was also nice to see him enjoying something other than cars and trains. The pig was eating the farmer's garden so we had to build a fence to keep him in, all the animals and tractors got on the roof to take a nap, we brought in pine straw to be hay, etc.