Halloween

Happy Halloween!! We had 2 Bumblebee Transformers and 1 little fairy (or butterfly as the boys thought) to go trick-or-treating with. We tried to convince one of the boys to be a different transformer but finally gave in and got them the same costume (and yes we bought them--Mrs. Lazy is my name, plus I figured it was worth the money for them to play with afterwards). Halloween isn't my very favorite holiday. I don't like spending money on costumes or candy. It's just kind of weird going to people's houses that you barely know and asking for candy. Usually we visit family and some friends and get lots of candy but this year we weren't by family so we settled for neighbors. It was fun, but random! Also, before Halloween when people would ask what the boys were going to be, they would say bumblebee--I had to clarify that they were going to be Bumblebee Transformer not a flying stinging bumblebee. Ha ha!

Looking at there loot!
I don't think they were very tired after trick-or-treating. What do you think?
Carving pumpkins

Angry bird and Smurf. Jason pretty much did them both! Great job!

Grandpa and Grandma decided last minute to go to Salt Lake so they stayed at our house on there way there. It was fun seeing them for a little bit!
I helped in Braden's classroom with the Halloween party. I was in charge of the treat--decorating sugar cookies. It was fun seeing all of his new friends. His teacher is so wonderful and sweet! She was sick the other day and he came home a little disappointed that she wasn't there.
The weekend before Halloween, we went to visit Brad and Bec. Jason and Brad went golfing while me, Bec and all the kids went to Costco and made Halloween spider cookies.

Braden took this picture. He's turning into quite the little photographer although this one's a little blurry and the other one he took kind of cut our heads off.
Little Miss Hay getting into everything and eating all our leftovers off the floor!
The boys had a blast "fixing" Brad's bike!
We also visited the pumpkin walk. It was a lot of fun. This display was our favorite--Despicable Me. It was soooo cute! And so real!

Halloween Fun

We started off our Halloween Festivities (if you can even call them that) by going to the Pumpkin Walk. It was really neat. This year was my favorite--I think this is only the 4th year they've done it. The theme was something about dreams do come true or something disneyish. The boys had a lot of fun and the weather was really nice the night we went.
Kyden's favorite was the Thomas the Train pumpkin set up. If you look close enough in the picture you can see Thomas in the background.

Carving pumpkins! We carved them at Grandpa and Grandma's house since we have carpet in our kitchen and that would have made a huge mess. Plus they wanted to carve there pumpkins too so we decided to do it all together for FHE.


As happy as Kyden looks in this picture, he did not like touching the insides of the pumpkin--just like his brother. But he sure was proud of his pumpkin that I helped him carve.
Finished product!


And of course, the costumes! Braden was supposed to be a Ninja Turtle but once I bought the costume, he decided he wanted to be Bob the Builder again. I tried to talk him out of it since he was Bob last year, but as parents you learn to pick your battles. Really, does it matter what they dress up in as long as they're happy and will give you a smile like below?! So, I was going to take the Ninja costume back but before I did, I decided to get it out and see what Kyden thought of it since he loves turtles. He absolutely LOVED the costume and played dress up in it the whole week before Halloween. He is my dress up man. Every time we play at my cousins house (who are all girls), he dresses up in something they have whereas Braden wouldn't touch the stuff! Funny and so different!!


Here are the boys with some cousins--the ones Kyden likes to play dress up with. Aren't they all so cute!
We had a lot of fun trick-or-treating! It's amazing how much candy they got even though we only hit probably 8 houses! Plus the weather was calling for rain and cold but it was a beautiful night and it didn't start raining until 10 pm. What a great day! Now it's on to the next holiday!

Halloween

Happy Halloween! So, to be honest I'm not really into Halloween. I do like to go to family parties and dress up but I don't ever go the extra mile. This year we didn't have any parties to go to so we just went trick-or-treating to family and then to the pumpkin walk which was fabulous. Plus, I don't see the need to spend $50 on each costume. It's a waste of money for only wearing the costume one or two nights. Maybe someday when I have money laying around just waiting to be spent, I will change my mind about that. But I do have to admit that children make it so much more memorable.

Braden was Bob the Builder who he is obsessed with right now and Kyden was a puppy. If you say to Kyden "Come here puppy" he'll drop to the ground and start panting. It's pretty cute.Kyden loves loves loves trains or "choo, choos" as he calls them so he had to check this out at the
pumpkin walk.

Kyden was in heaven with all the candy he was getting. He just couldn't figure it out but then he didn't really care and was just happy to be getting more candy at one time than he's had his whole life! They both got a bucket candy and we only went to about 6 houses. Guess that's what happens when you just go to family--they load you up!
Grandpa with the boys.