Halloween Festivities

This is for you, Dad.  Sorry I've been a slacker!! :0)

We had so much fun this year during the month of October.  It's a lot of fun having older kids who truly love Halloween and really get into it.

Paige had so much fun at her Halloween party at school.  She LOVED showing off her little brother and sister to everyone.  Isn't she such a beautiful medieval princess?  Funny story...when we first got her costume, we told her that her dress made her look like a medieval princess.  So, whenever anyone asked her what she was going to be for Halloween, she would say, "An evil princess."  They would always look a little confused until I explained that she kept forgetting to say the "mid" in medieval.  By the time Halloween rolled around, though, she had the correct "name" down! :0)

Bryn LOVED this little girl's costume.  Those wings fascinated her!

As you can tell, Bryn liked the treats as well.  This was taken while Paige played her "Hot Pumpkin" game so Paige couldn't protect her stash.  Luckily Paige didn't mind sharing!!  What a good sister!

The "Hot Pumpkin" game

These little creatures visited our home throughout most of October.  Aren't they so cute?  Paige and Austin are constantly begging me to do projects lately and this is one we came up with.  Sadly, Bryn's didn't last more than a day.  She's kind of our "human tornado".  Everywhere she goes, there is a trail of messes behind her!!  Her crow was a victim of that!!

Austin with his crow.  Have to love that he's still in his jammies!!  It was because I was a slacker mom and didn't realize that he didn't have clean pants until that morning.  He had to wait for a pair to be washed.  Oops!

Bryn with her crow before she destroyed it.  Notice that she's upright!  She's finally walking!!  It's been nice having our 3rd child be a late crawler and walker, but it is nice not having to worry about holey pants and scuffed shoes as much as when she was just crawling.  Good job, Bryn!!

Paige was very proud of her crow.  She did everything by herself and couldn't stop showing it off.  Another post will explain this further!

Austin with his cute preschool class.  Transformers were very popular this year.  Two Bumblebees and one Optimus Prime.

They happened to play "Hot Pumpkin" in Austin's class, too. :0)  Paige was my photographer for most of the activities.

This is Bryn's "Peek-a-boo" pose.  She does this ALL...THE....TIME!!  We love it, though!

TREATS!

Our pumpkin assortment for this year.  The kids picked the big pumpkin for Brian at a farm that we went to (pictures in another post).  Austin thought it was so cool that the pumpkin weighed as much as he did - 35 lbs!  Can you guess which pumpkin Brian did?  We had to represent our teams, Ohio State (my pumpkin) and BYU (Austin's pumpkin).  Austin painted his all blue and wanted me to paint the Y.  Ever since he slept in his cousin, Ethan's, BYU room, he's been obsessed! ;0)  Paige's pumpkin is pretty obvious with the flowers! ;0)  And cute Bryn had a cute pumpkin to match!

another view of Paige and Austin's pumpkins

The kids in their Halloween outfits.  Do you recognize Austin's shirt from last year?  He wore it for the last time today.  It is now officially too small. :0)

Bryn with her matching pumpkin.  Aren't the teeth and the button nose perfect?!? :0)

Paige showing off her masterpiece.

See, he's obsessed!! ;0)

Here we are at our Trunk-or-treat.  For our decorations this year, the kids cut out pumpkins, bats and ghosts and drew faces on them.  Then we just hung them up in the back (I should say Kandra and Paige hung them up in the back).  Not as cool as last year, but oh well.  My SIL, Julie, took that prize this year!! ;0)  We picked up Bri's wig at the Pharmacy in town and he already had the tennis suit.  He's such a good sport!!  The hair is hot, though, don't you think?!? ;0)  Bryn was a little kitty, Austin as Bumblebee, Paige as a medieval princess, and me as a Gypsy.  Do you see Paige's bag?  I made each of the kids one.  Paige wanted a black cat, Austin a ghost and we made Bryn a jack-o-lantern.  They turned out really cute.  I thought I took a picture of them, but I couldn't find it.  Oh well.