Trick or Treat

I love Halloween! We love to have halloween parties and carve jack-o-lanterns. This year with the addition of school and other activities we decided to keep it simple!

Sydney really wanted to be a princess again. Because I am a mean Mom I said no! Pick something else....so she picked Tinkerbell. She is very much a girly-girl! Tristen wanted to be a Ninja. Hu-waahhhh!



We added glitter and sparkles to Sydney's face. She adored it. I think she would dress up like this every day if she could.

I told Tristen to show me his fighting stance. You can bet he made 'fighting sounds' with those 'ninja tools of death' all night long.

We attended our church's annual 'Trunk-or-Treat' party. Everyone gathers at the church and opens their trunks for trick-or-treating from car to car. Thus, trunk-or-treat. Families fill the parking lot and this year was no exception. We had hot dogs, chips and drinks to start and then the kids 'trunk-or-treat' from car trunk to car trunk. It's a really fun idea and the kids get plenty of fun in while we get to visit with our friends.

Sydney followed around this cute little girl, Reagan, from our church all night. There were a ton of adorable costumes.

Our in-laws John and Audrey and their family were able to attend this year again. Steven was Batman (his mom made that cowl - awesome!) and Margaret was a pink princess.

After awhile Sydney got tired of the wings so I became a mutant tinkerbell. Trunk or treat is nice because it is quick and to the point.

Here is Sydney trying to be cool like Auntie Liz...this photo made me laugh so hard.

After the party, we went back to our neighborhood for some old-fashioned trick-or-treating! The kids love running from house to house. The kiddos all enjoyed their glow sticks as well.

We filled the kids buckets (again) with candy and then headed back to the house. Tristen was pretty good - he always made sure the kids waited on the doorstep until Margaret caught up before ringing the doorbell. Of course, he did want to also be first on that doorstep...

Ahhhhh!!!! A scary monster!! Oh wait...that's me.

Hope you had a wonderful Halloween! Thanks to everyone who partied with us!

Happy Halloween 2008

I'm a little late posting our Halloween activities for this year. We started the last week by doing a little pumpkin carving.

The kids had fun and loved seeing the pumpkin guts. We displayed our witch and castle and hoped the bunnies didn't eat them!

Later in the week I visited the kids school for their annual Halloween parade. Each class makes their own costumes and the kids are so excited to see their parents.


Here is 'Dr. Sydney'. She came straight towards me instead of in line with her class. I could hear her across the other side of the yard yelling 'Mommy!' looking for me.

Tristen's class was a box of crayons. I loved this idea. How fun are all the little crayons in a row. Tristen was the line leader and waved to everyone as he led the parade.

That evening we visited the annual ward Trunk or Treat. We always have so many people attend and many fantastic costumes. There is lots of creativity!

DH's brother and SIL have been able to attend with us a few years and we always have fun together.

Afterwards we finished up with a little trick or treating around the neighborhood. The kids had a blast.

Halloween Fun

Halloween is just around the corner and we've been busy having fun and getting ready with a little family and friends time.

I started out with a little craft day with my Mom and sister. I started working on my first Christmas present (which I can't show because it would ruin the surprise!). It's always fun when they come join me. Thanks gals!

Made a little time to make the turkey my kids wanted for a pumpkin at our Super Saturday activity. (Sorry for the poor picture.) The wood pieces are meant to stand out with a pumpkin as the center body for the turkey. My kids thought this was fun.

Found a little time to help my sis make this fun skull wreath for halloween with red glitter eyes.

Then we had a birthday/halloween party to go to. I made this frame for the birthday boy. I thought it turned out pretty cute.

The kids got their first chance to try out their costumes at the party. Here they are ready and excited to go.

Sydney told me she wanted to be a 'pink pincess' from day one. If you know her, you know there is no other choice than princess. So yes, she looks almost just like last year.

Tristen was very excited to be Bumblebee the Transformer. Every day he wakes up and asks me 'Is today Halloween?'. 'Mom, you remember you are going to get my bumblebee costume? You remember the store where it's at?' If you look in his left hand, yes he is holding his little Bumblebee transformer.

The party was fun - and I guess it tired us out!


We drove straight from there to the hospital to visit DH's mom who broke her leg. She just stepped off a curb wrong and fractured her left leg. She also sprained her right ankle in the process. She had surgery to pin the broken leg and we went by to visit her. How awful! We wish her a very speedy recovery.

Here is some Halloween fun for everyone!

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