The Halloween Party

Our Third Annual Halloween Party...

Wesley decided to be a football player weeks ago, but Jack changed costumes at the last minute and decided he would only be a baseball player, so we pulled this together pretty quick!

This party is always so fun and the kids are totally entertained with games, dancing, pizza, cookies,

pumpkin decorating, and a pinata!
(Wesley broke the pinata and I caught a picture of the leg flying away!)

So, here's the group this year...

(back row)

Kyler, Tate, Jack, Hudson, Ava, Wesley, Connor, and Gavin
(front row)

Ellie, Avery, Ryan, and Ammon

And here's what we looked like last year...
And finally a flashback to our very first year...
We LOVE this party!

Preschool

They are too cute!

Pumpkins

I really do love going to the pumpkin patch, but last night was just not our best outing ever... the picture pretty much sums it up. Avery is wearing her tutu, eventhough she is only in a diaper underneath because she pooped on everything else (including the shirt she's wearing, but I couldn't let her be naked, could I?) I practically forced Wesley to smile. And Jack, luckily he was happy and just along for the ride.

Twenty-nine pumpkins later (all for an Activity Days party on Thursday), OK... Thirty (we needed one for our family too), we left and picked two more out of Lory's garden. Funny enough, those two were the only ones carved! But Wesley and I finally cheered up. Jack got away with eating a thousand M&M's. And Avery was just happy to be in a clean t-shirt, even if it was ten times too big!

My Favorite Yet

Today's Halloween stop... Cornbelly's!

Loved. Every. Second.
Here are the highlights...
Costumes for the kids in the Pumpkin Princess Land...
We had the cutest knights in the place...
Jack proved he's more of a lady's man than Wesley...
(that's him dancing with the older woman in pink)
(and this is him walking away from his dance with
the older woman in yellow)
And Avery confirmed she does NOT like hay.
All this plus some games, rides, and of course...

a corn maze...

Side note... we also got to see Lory get his second degree black belt. Way to go!

BOO!

Barnyard Boo at Thanksgiving Point

And a magic trick with a witch!

Who's the Californian now?

Not me. But, as of this weekend, Ben, Cammie and their cute kids are. I am so sad they are moving (for the tenth time in 7 years), it's been really fun having the kids get to know eachother better this past year. Wesley and Jack LOVE playing with Jacob and Brooklyn. Their little hearts will be broken when they figure out it will be a while before they can get together again.

We miss you guys already!

Finally, a little more fun.

After a week stuck inside, due to two totally sick kids, we are finally out and about again! And coincidentally, we were back at Gardner Village... this time with preschool. But the secret is out and it was a mad house! Seriously, crazier than I've ever seen. So, the preschool outing didn't last long. But I did manage to take a few cute pictures...

Do you see the crowds in the background? Crazy.

The First of Many...

...many, many, Halloween posts.

Every year during priesthood conference, the kids and I spend the evening with my Mother-in-Law. Saturday night we went to Gardner Village for a little fun with some witches (one of my most favorite fall spots, if you know anything about me).

Wesley spent the whole night making funny faces with his cousins. He thinks he perfected his wink, kind of.
Jack was all of a sudden convinced the horse wanted to eat his shoes, so he wouldn't let his feet touch him.
And Avery bonded with her cousin Hailey, while wondering why she didn't have crazy hair also!

Such a fun start to the season!

Thanks again Chris... I love these memories we're making!