October 29, 2023

Pumpkins & Tea

The kids went trick-or-treating at Camp North End Friday night for the annual Candy Crawl.  We met up with a few kids from our neighborhood.  It was a hot 80 degrees!  Luckily, Halloween night is supposed to be cooler.  Saturday we went to a Halloween tea at the Ballantyne Hotel.
     
Candy Crawl at Camp North End
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
Halloween Tea at the Ballantyne Hotel
   
The kids played with an I Spy Halloween book.
   
    
The tea presentation was bootiful!
    
The kids got hot chocolate.
   
   
   
    
We played at the playground behind the hotel after tea.
    
   
Carving our pumpkins!
   
    
Ethan made both of these.
    

October 23, 2023

Pumpkins & Soccer

We had a busy fall weekend!  Friday night, we went to Kate and Sean's house for a Halloween get together.  Kate had amazing boards for snacking and the decorations were perfectly spooky!  The kids enjoyed getting to spend time with Fitz and Evie.  Saturday, we had the Irwin Academy Fall Fest and Trunk or Treat.  We signed up to do Trunk or Treat this year and our theme was Retro Halloween.  The kids dressed up in their costumes and went trick or treating, played games, walked through a haunted house and played on bounce houses.  They had a blast!  Alex's mom was kind enough to come watch the kids while Alex and I went to see Messi play against the Charlotte FC.  It was an amazing game!  We were able to see Messi score, but luckily, it was taken back for being offsides.  Charlotte FC won and now get go to the playoffs!  We had brunch with friends on Sunday then went to the Carolina Balloonfest in Statesville.  Sadly, they couldn't even inflate the hot air balloons due to windy weather.  
   
Kate & Sean's house!
    
   
   
   
Kate made delicious mocktails and had pumpkin beer for tasting.
    
     
   
Trunk or Treat - Retro Halloween
    
   
    
   
   
   
   
    
       
It was a blustery day!
   
   
   
   
Harper and Ada
    
They had a costume competition for each grade.
   
   
   
Emmit won for third grade!
   
   
   
    
Amelia, Ada and Harper
   
   
   
   
Ethan ran through the haunted house and didn't see the scary wolf monster standing at the end.  He came running back to us!
    
    
    
    
    
They had a pie the teacher booth.
    
   
Ethan gave it a go!
   
   
Ethan took the girls through the haunted house.
    
Go Charlotte FC!
    
    
   
Messi!
   
   
   
They had an amazing half time drone show.
    
   
    
    
Beth and Scott
    
   
Carolina Balloonfest
    
     
    
    
We were excited to eat donuts and they had started blowing up the balloons behind us, but the wind was too much.