Snoopy houses and all that

We had another really fun family night this week when we got a ginger bread house kit, and the kids put them together at the kitchen talbe.

 Ivie and Amelia were on one team

 Ethan worked on his own creation, notice he is using nutella insead of gross glue frosting?

 Me and Elise worked on this snoopy house...

 I did the structure and Elise did the decorations...

 Isobell and Lara worked on another one...

 Aaron's snoopy house was uniquely Aaron... sorta Charles Schultz meets Tim Burton.

 2 proud sisters

 Elise's final decorations... and goofball smile

and Ethan's creation with a "generator" on the far side......

halloween images

I have been such a bum about posting pics of the family. the 2 people that actually look at this at in grave danger of forgetting who the Orchard family is! here are a few pictures from around halloween.

this is Ethans "ID" photo shot; we made him and Ivie's doctors badges to go with their scrubs outfits.. 

 these two were sooo hyper, this was one of the clearest photos I had of them.. the rest of the pictures are just blurs. Amelia is a candy corn witch, and Elise is some sort of ballerina pirate... its like shes just rolling dice to come up with her outfit.

Cute pictures from outside

I'm telling you 'constant motion'!

Isobell was a beauty Queen, she was missing her ribbon that went over the front of her so she just looks like she's a princess... which she is to me.

Aaron of course is Sonic the Hedge Hog... that boy is obsessed. He runs with his arms back like Sonic and swears that it makes him go faster.

Here are some random moments form my mom's party that night; doughnut eating contest (on a string) and the Pinata. thanks Mom!