Halloween

It was a wet Halloween this year!  We took the kids over to the "University Mall" for some indoor trick-or-treating.  It's not really a mall, but that's what it's called.  The gym I work at is in this building and all Bristol wanted to do was go into the kid area she goes to every day.  She finally started getting the hang of putting out her hand and getting candy in it.  She thought that was pretty great.  I was surprised she kept her devil horns on!  We went and grabbed some dinner from Macadoo's and then went home.  It was so wet and cold we just stayed in and let Tyler and Brenalee go out by themselves.  They didn't stay out for long.  Due to the weather we didn't have near as many trick-or-treaters as we normally do.  I had way too much leftover candy.  I sent it to work with TJ!

Carving Pumpkins

It seems like every night we wanted to carve pumpkins, something happened and we couldn't.  Our neighbor came to the door the other night and asked if the kids would like one of his pumpkins he grew.  Of course we took him up on that offer!  The pumpkin was HUGE!  Tj had to go help the kids carry it.  We just carved the one pumpkin this year.  We did it after our ward party so we could have it done for Halloween.  The kids did a great job of cleaning out the insides.

 And we roasted those babies!

 He looks so mean!

Trunk-or-Treat

Tonight was our ward's Halloween Trunk-or-Treat.  We had planned on dressing up as a Star Wars theme this year, but that didn't happen.  So, we pulled out whatever we had.  Tj and I won the costume contest.  It was a beautiful night - much nicer than last year!  It was snowing last year!  We had to end up inside the church last year because of the weather. 

Tyler was a football player and Brena was Cleopatra

 Tj and I

 Bristol was going to be out little Ewok for our Star Wars theme, so she wore the same outfit.  It is however, a dog costume.

 Getting ready to trunk-or-treat!

 We covered up her hands and it was so funny to watch her try and use her hands.  She kept trying to grab everything and couldn't - she was getting really frustrated.  It was so funny!

 And all 5 of us!

Halloween

 Our ward Halloween party was the night before Halloween.  TJ had school so it was just the kids and I. 

 I wasn't the only one with this idea!  This ward is so different than any other ward I've ever been in.  There TONS of kids (3 nurseries) and lots of babies and pregnant women.  In fact, right now I believe there are 11 or more pregnant women!  And there were about 10 new babies born in June/July of this past year!

And baby skeleton is 22 weeks and 3 days!

And of course the kids went trick-or-treating on Halloween night as well.  TJ took them while I stayed home.  Brena was very concerned about kids coming to the house and not having anyone here to hand them some candy.  I gladly stayed home in the warmth instead of going out into the cold!

Pumpkins

We finally got around to decorating our pumpkins this year.  We haven't done it in a few years for various reason.  But, we were determined to do it this year!

 Brena wanted a princess pumpkin and choose to do Princess Aurora...little did we know how long it would take - even though the pattern said "easy" - ha!

 Tyler just wanted to get his carved however he could.

 Tyler's finished product:

 And, TJ being the nice daddy he is, spent over 4 hours on Brena's pumpkin!  The kids had all gone to bed and he was still working away.  I wanted to go to bed, but I felt bad for him and stayed up with him.

 Our bat pumpkin

 The princess pumpkin

 And, then they got covered in snow :)

Brenalee's Halloween Party

Brenalee's class had their "fall" party.  There were different stations set up for lots of fun.  I think her favorite was picking the witch's nose and grabbing the boogers (green jello) and eating them...she's so gross!

 This little boy in the orange shirt is Logan.  He goes to our church.  He is a year older than Brenalee, they are both August birthday's but Logan's parents didn't have him start kindergarten until he was 6 (I still wish I'd done this with Brena).  Anyways, one day Brena said to me "mom promise not to tell anyone, I have a big crush on Logan."  This made me laugh - because I already knew.  When you find papers all over the house with I Love Logan written all over them - that's kind of what you figure out!  She was always wanting to try and sit in their row during church too.  Well, a few days ago I hadn't heard anything about Logan, so I asked her if she was still in love with him.  She said NO! Apparently he told her at lunch she had to eat her lunch before she could eat her cupcake someone had brought in for their birthday.  She said "he is done for telling me what to do!"  She cracks me up.  And, we have had many conversations on how she is too young to be in love and NOT to worry about boys yet!!  Just enjoy being a little girl and don't think about boys!

Halloween

Luckily TJ was home to take the kids trick-or-treating!  I was still motion sick inside my house and throwing up - ugh!  Of course they had a great time, got too much candy, and ate too much candy!  They went just around the streets in our neighborhood.  I know they had fun seeing all their friends in their costumes.  The schools here do not allow costumes to be worn to school.  I remember when I was a kid it was so fun to go to school and have your Halloween party and see everyone in their costumes.  I wish it was still like that!

 Our friends Maddy and Mia.

I hope they had a great night!  I on the other hand didn't.

Trick-or-Treating at the Hangar

TJ's hangar had trick-or-treating for the kids and a static display of the P3.  They got way too much candy from all the shops in the hangar.  But, it was fun doing this at daddy's work.  This is the first time the kids had gotten to see their daddy's work spaces.

 Dressed and ready to go!

 I love this picture of the P3 with the American flag in the background.

 Going up the stairs to get into the P3.

 And they each took a turn in the cockpit.