Halloween Part 2

We had our ward trunk-or-treat and chili cook-off on Monday. The girls had fun and it is so nice that they are getting bigger and can go back as many times as they want (by themselves) to get more food and to find their friends.

She broke one of arm holders. Good thing she did it before she had her school parade.

This girl was hilarious. She never broke character and talked, walked, and acted just like a little old lady. Such a cute girl.

The girls were able to take their costumes to school and have a parade and a party. They had so much fun except for when Jo Jo broke her other arm holder. Luckily Melonie was there to come to the rescue and fix it. I talked to a couple of people who felt so bad for miss Jo Jo because she was crying during the parade. So sad. She felt better after it was fixed and was ready to party with her class.

Here she is when she was happy.

Halloween night was fun. We walked around our neighborhood and got way too much candy.

We went out early and then came home and watched a movie and ate popcorn. The crazies took turns opening the door for the trick-or-treaters, who got the candy that the girls had just received from their rounds.

Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Halloween

We had our last pumpkin party on the 29th. We have been doing it for 10 years and we are just kinda done with it. So instead of carving pumpkins we are going to have a fun traditional Halloween party: costume contest, pinata, games, food. It will be awesome. Now back to our pumpkins...
Carving


The pumpkins


We had a pinata which was a lot of fun.
We started with the youngest and got to Jenna.


Look at Moo Moo and Cody trying to grab all the candy. Ha ha I love it.
Here are the kids (minus GiGi and Ryans kids) with Nana.


My lovely sisters and mother.


We had a lot of fun and we are excited to change it up and party next year!

Tonight Dan had to work, so I got to take the girls out. We just went around our complex. The crazies had so much fun and were so excited to help hand out candy when trick or treaters came to our house.

Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat

The girls had their fall festival at school. They got to dress up and play a lot of different games.



Tonight we had our ward chili cook off and trunk or treat. It was kind of a crazy night, but a lot of fun. The crazies had a blast running all over with friends, getting candy, and playing games. The chili was great and the haunted house was scary. We even decorated our car. :) Awesome night!!!

It's Halloween

This Halloween was somewhat of a bummer. I don't know what was up with me. I usually love to decorate and get into it all, but I just didn't get there. I did a little decorating, but I took it all down last Monday.
Then I felt extra bad because Annie didn't get to go trick-or-treating. She has been having accidents lately and so I sat down with her (about a week ago after she had two within half a day) and we talked about the things that she could do and what should happen if she did it again. We finally decided that if she was to do it again she wouldn't get to go trick-or-treating. Well she had an accident. Then she had a melt down because I told her she wasn't going trick-or-treating. I felt so torn about the decision. She was having a hard time with it, but I think it was harder for me. I felt so awful taking this holiday away, but at the same time I didn't want to give in and let her go because, well, that defeats the whole purpose of discipline. So yesterday morning after a little break down when she was reminded that she couldn't go, I told her that I would think about letting her go if she was nice with her sisters (which she wasn't), if she didn't whine (which she did), and if she listened to Dan and I (which was here and there). Bedtime wasn't so peaceful and that is when the decision was made that she really wasn't going. She was still a little upset that she wasn't going, but I let her put on her costume and hand out candy to those who came to our door. She liked that and so she didn't even care anymore and was happy the rest of the night. She did get to go to a couple of doors at the end of the night, but that is because it was to family and their neighbors.
Jo Jo and Ty had fun going out and about. Ty was terrified


of this kid handing out candy


Jo Jo was a little timid, but I thought she was very brave!


Our sweet little pirate, witch, and Alice


HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Maybe next year I'll get more into it.

Utah and Halloween #2

Wednesday
We drove to Utah and hung out at the house.

Thursday
We went to Utah County to do a few things, pick up Jenna and the kids, and visit our fav Provo family. The kids LOVED playing with each other.



Friday
We hung out all day. We got a great deal on our pumpkins and had yummy pizza.

Saturday
Ty pretend fed the baby,



We carved,


Ty tried some pumpkin,


We had our pumpkin party,






Had pics taken of all the cuties,


And we enjoyed having the whole family there.

Sunday
I was nasty sick, but had a visitor anyways. Thanks for driving to see us Sarah!

Monday
We played with the Ridings in the morning and then the kids went trick or treating at Nana's. They thought that was pretty exciting.


Ty had a rough time getting out of her costume so we could get dressed to drive home.

Not a happy kid from Tiffany on Vimeo.

Here is what Ty did to block the sun before I could put a blanket up.



It was a fun vacation and I'm so glad that we were able to go.

Halloween #1

Our apartment complex had a Halloween party today. They had food, a bounce house, treats, etc....
The girls were so excited to wear their costumes and go play.


As you can see Annie isn't wearing her costume, not because she doesn't have one, but because she had an accident yesterday and lost her chance to wear it today. She wasn't happy about it.






Annie has two more chances to wear her costume. Lets hope she doesn't have any more accidents!

Our Weekend Fun!

We were able to go to Delta for our annual pumpkin party. We usually do it on the Saturday before Halloween, but since it fell on a Saturday this year, we decided to do it on Halloween. The girls picked out their own costumes this year and were so excited to wear them. They told everyone they saw what they were going to be a couple of weeks before Halloween. They actually have what they want to be next year already picked out. Crazy girls!!
I was totally unprepared for this holiday. I don't know what it was, but I just wasn't as into it as I normally am. I forgot many things like my costume, Ty's tights, some pumpkins, etc... Luckily Jenna was able to find some pumpkins for us and so we were still able to participate in the contest. Dan and I were nice enough to let someone else win this year. :)


Mine and Emma and Elsa's


Dan's


SB and Jo Jo's


Here are the girls dressed up and ready to go. SB as Snow White


Jo Jo as a "Cowgurl"


Ty, our miss Pumpkin Pie


My beautiful Crazies!!!


Their Uncle Ryan was nice enough to take them out door to door after the trunk or treat. The only problem they ran across was when they were walking up to one door a dog ran up to them and started barking. They all started to scream and ran back to the car. If you know my girls you know that they are terrified of any kind of animals, so this wasn't a good thing.




And here is the look that I constantly get from this guy.