Black & Orange Party

Yesterday MJ's class had their black & orange party. All the food sever was you guess black & orange:

Xavier:

I love this picture of even her face is light:

Carving Pumpkins

Well, it's that time of the year again for carving pumpkins. We brought them this year at the commissary & they were WAY cheaper!

Ben & MJ picking the designs:

Ben & MJ modeling the designs:

MJ cleaning out the pumpkin (that didn't last long):

MJ making sure I was doing a good job of cleaning it out: Here's MJ supervising Ben:

Here's the ending result:

More Crazy Outfits

My mom sent her anothe box of goodies:

Ben's Halloween Bash

We decided since this was Ben's last birthday here in Germany we wanted to do something special. We figured a Halloween BBQ bash would be fun. We encourage everyone to dress up.
Ben: Yes, I'm Starwberry Shortcake (my hair was flat till the weather mess it up):

Ben's cake:

Jenn & Katy: Bubby's son (he was Strom Trooper): Kirsty & Kerys: Nick & Xavier:Ben said that MJ went nuts when saw them.

Ben & Matt: MJ chowing down on Ben's cake:

The girls coloring on the chalk board: Phil wearing MJ's shoes: Nellie wanted to try on Ben's gloves: Aniston's turn: We all had a great time! It's so much fun we you get together w/ friends. We have so many leftovers that I'm not planning on cooking for a while- LOL!

Kerys' Halloween Party

My friend Kirsty has a kids Halloween party every year. MJ was very excited to go! She wanted to go as Little Red Riding Hood:

There's Miss Kerys'. She's Ruby Gloom:We visited & let the kids play a bit. Kirsty then had some cute games that the kids played.

She was wipe out & went right to bed when we got home! We'll sure miss Kerys' Halloween party next year.

The Bubble Machine

We order this bubble machine for MJ. We were going to give it to her for Christmas but Ben couldn't wait. She got so excited seeing all the the bubbles. She couldn't pop them fast enough!

Yeah... it made the biggest mess so we put it away for now. I hate that b/c she really enjoyed all those bubbles.

Oktoberkerwe

We found out Kaiserslautern was having Oktoberkerwe (aka October carnival). We went to the one in May & figured it would be fun. We decided to go today b/c Wednesday is Family Day w/ discounts rides & food. We told MJ if she was good at speech we would go. It also helped that Ben took the day off. On the way there we found out where all the freaks come from:

Oktoberkerwe: MJ has for a long time ask to ride a roller coaster. We finally found one that we felt was suitable for her. She liked it for the most part: On to the bumper cars:

We needed to break a 50 Euro so we decided to ride the ferris wheel next. Here are pictures from the top:

We SO need a new camera. I took pictures of us while we were up there up they're so bad I'm not going to publish them.

While we were on the ferris wheel Ben saw this ride that he wanted to ride. They're boats that went really fast. We were going to ride together but Ben didn't get to a boat in time so I went first. After I was done Ben took MJ. Ben said she laugh the whole time on it.

Of course we had to make a stop at horses: We then got some yummy food. After the we rode the roller coaster one more time we call it a day & went home.

On the way we notice a large group of ladders. Ben wanted a picture of it: