HAPPY HALLOWEEN

One of my favorite family traditions was having hot chocolate and doughnuts when we came home from trick or treating, it wasnt something we always did but we did it enough for me to miss it now.

So I told Ian I wanted to take the kids to get doughnuts in the morning since we were going to be at his parents house that night.  The kids loved it, Krispy Kremes does halloween doughnuts and they loved them.

Kadrynn always gets the doughnut that looks the best but then always trades up for the sugar doughnuts, I cant blame her, they are the best.

As soon as we walked into the Robertsons house Melynn Laid down on the chair, I guess she was tired.

Russ and Karen as Prof, Mcgonagall and Dumbledore

Ian and I were Zorro and Elaina.

I just love this picture of Ian and Melynn, she is so cute, and so is he..with his sweet zorro stash!

Danny is Beetlejuice and Taelin was a fairy.

As soon as they walked in I noticed that the rain had stopped so we grabbed the kids and headed out to trick or treat before it started up again.  Thankfully it didnt, and they has so much fun going door to door.  But of course I put Ian on camera duty and so nothing happened.  We got back to the house and had dinner and lots of sugar.  I made chicken noodle, Karen made clam chowder, Natalie made jello worms that looked so gross and real.  Amanda made her sugar cookies and some cupcakes

We had lots of food but thats all I am remembering right now. it was a lot of fun. 

Jason Debrine was...jason or some other killer guy, I dont know, I dont watch gross movies.

Alex and Shayla as James bond and Hottie

Karen and russ set up a dance floor outside so when the rain didnt come back we all took it outside to get our dance on.  The kids where so funny, dancing like crazy.

Schaefer was really busting it all over.

We got Hermionie Danger

and of course we got invaded by hogwarts, with Ron, Harry and the random Black guy, who is apparently in the books but not the movies.

It is also Danny and Lisas birthdays so we had lots of cake and ice cream.

And the ducktails!!

It was a really fun night, I always look forward to halloween now that I have to make cool costumes that look better than everyone else.  This year was kind of my year off, but everyone else had some really good stuff.  I cant wait to see what next year brings. 

Schaefers School Halloween Party

So Schaefers school only allows the kids to dress up if it goes with the theme the teacher has chosen.

So Schaefers Teacher chose, Farms. 

So Schaefer immediatly wanted to be a horse, but I thought, that would take to much time and money to do so I some how talked him into changing his mind, and I dont know how it happened but he chose to be a potato.  Yes, and it was awsome.  I think it turned out pretty well,  you can tell he is either a cow pie or potato, so I guess either way it works.

He loved the costume, he wore it all day the day before and all day when he got home, and he really wanted to where it trick or treating but he had already bought an Ironman costume so I made him wear that.

Here is the rest of his class, and Melynns head.  He was the only food item. 

They made these cute little bags out of plastic plates, they cute them in half and used yarn to sew the halfs together so they looked like a spider.  Very cute idea.

Provo City Halloween Carnival

Every year Provo city puts on a Halloween Carnival, its always fun.  And since Ian works with the city he always wants to support his friends and so we always go and the kids always have so much fun. This year was probably my favorite year.

Every year they change the theme.  Last year they had a huge maze inside but this year they went all out.  Inside they had a bunch of games and things for the kids.  This picture is the candyland cake walk.  The kids had fun once they realized you got food if they picked your number, but once one of them one they all went up to get their cake.

They also had a haunted house, they told us it was scarry but we thought we would be ok so we went through, sadly...it was scary.  The girls didnt like it at all!  Schaefer did really well at the beginning.  Everytime someone jumped out he would like of laugh and say "its just a human!" and keep going but then Kadrynn started screaming and so that made Melynn nervous so they werent liking it so much so most of the actors inside tried to do funny things instead of scary but they didnt care too much.  Then out of no where some moron, keep in mind that the girls are crying..loudly, Jumps out and yells right in Schaefers face!!  That sent him over the edge, he screamed bloody murder and started crying.  Thankfully one of the girls said their was a way out right there so we left.  We then got in line for the Alice and Wonderland house.  It was really cute, they started in a room where you eat a little cake and have a little drink so you can shrink to fit in the tiny door.  then we went into the room that had a these fun bubbles that popped once they came in contact with your skin.  Then we went into the is room, the above picture, with the 2 twins that said a poem and gave the kids candy.

Then they went into a new room and had a tea party with Alice and the Mad Hatter.

They had some juice and put some little things in it.  I think it was pop with coloring and then cream and sprinkles and cherries, something like that, but the kids loved it.

Schaefer sat next to the Hatter and he kept staring at him when he tried to talk to him.

It was pretty funny.

After the Tea Party we headed over to see the Red Queen They had all the halls lined with green and these cute trees and flowers all over.

Here they played flamingo golf, like they do in the movie.  At first the kids were a little nervous but once melynn got up there Schaefer loosened up and they both had a blast, but Kadrynn didnt want too play.

At the end Schaefer was trying to talk us into going into the Haunted House again so he could try to scare the workers, I kind of wish I would have let him, that would have been funny to see if he could have finished it and if he really did try to scare the other kids.  But we left and went to bed.

Fun with Boss and Pumpkin carving

 The kids were playing with Boss one day and I started taking a couple pictures,  Kadrynn was posing asking me to take some pictures of her and Boss suprised her.  Haha, so funny.

A boy and his dog...

We were going to carve pumpkins at home and then I would have remembered to take pictures but we were invited to a friends house, the Terrys, to carve with them.  It was a lot of fun.  its nice to have a friend in the ward that we can do things with.  They have 2 kids a boy and a girl just about our kids age so they all have so much fun together.  Melynns is the one in the uppper corner, it just has different circles on it.  I also got them each a small one to paint.  That was an adventure.

I told Schaefer to go out and take some pictures of the pumpkins and this is what he came back with, only he had taken about 20 of the same thing.   

This one is Schaefers

This one is Kadrynns, I really need to work on my carving skills, the eyes were horrible, totally crooked.

Good thing Schaefer took a close up so you cant really tell.