It's Halloween time!!!

Halloween is such a fun time with kids!!!! There are so many activities and fun times to be had!!!This year we started the fun more than a week early! The school Halloween carnival was more than a week before so the kids got to dress up and play at this! They even got to go over to my parents before and have a bbq and play with their cousins. The carnival was pretty fun. Toph got sick after eating a cupcake and we bought to many tickets and there wasn't time to use them all. Luckily we were able to use them at the bake sell and the kids got cotton candy, soda, and some cookies. T.J. also won a cake in the cake walk!!

The next night (Saturday), we went to the redbarn looking for some pumpkins with some of our friends. The kids loved the straw maze!!!! We didn't do the train to much wildness for me!!! Although they did get to ride behind a tractor in these little box things so i think they were happy with that! We finally got a picture of them all together but Pearson would not look at the camera! We do think that T.J. may be allergic to straw because he was covered in a rash later that night!!! We picked out some really good pumpkins and then had a bbq with our friends at our house. Fun night!!!!

Of course things during the week around here always get a little hectic so i was a little worried about getting the pumpkins carved. Luckily Tyler skipped out on one of his meetings so we ended up with an open Thursday night to carve us some fun pumpkins. Toph did his own face! Cree drew hers right on the pumpkin and i cut it out. T.J. drew Tyler a picture and then Tyler cut it out. Tyler also did both the family pumpkin and Pearsons. Yes we do alot of pumpkins.

We also got our scare crows ready for the trunk or treat. This is only a pic of the big one the little one didn't get till the next day and i don't have a picture of it!!!

This week at school was also red ribbon week so the kids were able to do crazy hair day, wear hats and team jersey's. We are not big sports people so they just wore jerseys from previous years when one or the other played!!!

Last night was our ward trunk or treat. So the kids got to dress up again!!!! Toph was Harry Potter! Cree was a Masquerade Princess! T.J. was of course a Pirate with the sweetest peg leg! Pearson was a gnome, he isn't wearing his hat or beard yet because he had to eat before trunk or treating and i didn't want him spilling food in his beard!!!

I really think they would dress up everyday of the week if i would let them. I think they had a great time and it is hilarous to hear Pearson say trick-or-treat!!! We came home and the kids put on a light show with glow in the dark sticks in the basement. It got really intense when Tyler jumped in with them! we had glowing interlocking circles galore!! It was so much fun to watch!!!

Maybe the sad part of all of this is we haven't even made it to Halloween yet!!! We still have all day tommorow to get through the primary program. Then it will finally be Halloween. The kids get to dress up to go to school and have a nice little parade and then on to the real trick-or-treating.