Halloween party number.... oh six or seven... something like that!

My good friend Kandice was so wonderful and had a Halloween shindig at her house Halloween morning (the kids were out of school)! It was SOO FUN! We did a prize walk, bingo, made little ghost suckers, and had homemade soup and rolls. Kandice makes the best rolls ever and we all ate like little piggies. (PS she is taking orders for her wonderful rolls for the holidays. Get it in soon or you'll be left to the not even half as good rolls from the store.) In this picture I suggested the kids have a leaf fight until I realized that Ambra's hair had to last the whole day. THis is Halloween ya know. Belle hair is not easy.

Ariah and Cameron. They are a week apart in age. So cute.

Jenny, me and Chalyce. We braved the costumes.

Pretty little Belle.

Wow, look at that handsome group! Brave Kandice having all those kids at her house!! You rock girl. Good thing the weather was so wonderful and we could have it outside. Thanks a million! So fun.

Halloween Parties Four and Five!

Of course I dressed up! I totally love it. I should probably feel geeky, but I never do. Maybe one day, who knows? I had to dress up for Ambra's school party that I helped with and this is what I came up with at 10 the night before. I'm like a clown witch or something.

Ambra's grandma stayed at our house Halloween week, so she got to come to school with us. It is Grandma (witch), Mrs. Hardy (teacher), my cute little Amrba (they weren't allowed to dress up at school LAME!!!!!!!!!!! can I put enough emphasis on lameness!), Annie (room mom), and me. I was in charge of the craft. We did puppet spiders. It's so fun to be in her class. I am totally diggin it.

Cole's little preschool Hallowen party. Two of the kiddos were sick. Darn. They can't be sick near Halloween!

Me and Grandma with the kiddies.

Party number three!

Group kid picture gone bazerk! I had a little party at my house with my roomies from college. It was so fun to see everyone. Between the eight of us we had 11 kiddos there. 5 kids and 6 babes.

Emily, Amy, me, Emily, Mindie, Alisa, Cheryl, Kamie. We had a blast. We have figured out we need to get together again though since we were so busy doing a party and entertaining 11 kids we didn't get to talk to much.

Kamie put together a craft. The kids made darling little halloween frames.

The two oldest of the bunch. Ambra and Kamies daughter Mariko. They are dining on their cupcakes from the cake walk.

Kiddie picture minus Ariah. Anyone surprised? She was over messing around in the fire pit. Anyone surprised again? Figures.

Halloween Party!!! or should I say parties...prepare for many!

My little nephew Joshua turned one!!! We went down to Springville for his little birthday party. He is the one in the engineer costume. It was fun. Grandma came up from St. George for the party. It was on the 25th and thier ward was having a trunk or treat so we got to go to that during the party. Fun.

This is at the pumpkin walk in Syracuse. They have like a million carved and shaved pumpkins. Those things are so professional. There are like temples and scriptures and faces carved into those things. They really took it to the next level.

Every year Layton puts on a Halloween Bash. It is free and there are games, blow ups, treats, cake walk, costume contest etc... It was fun. We came here with bunch of friends and their kids and then headed on over to the pumpkin walk.

This was the first time they really got to put on their costumes, so we had to do pictures by the pumpkins.

Halloween Decorations!!

I love to decorate for fall. It is sooo fun! October and November porch are my favorite porches for the year. We have a little tradition we do with the kids. Instead of carving pumpkins, we pin candy on them. This is so much less messy and more tasty. I am really bad a carving so this is a good option for me. Plus the kids get a kick out of it. This year though, it has been so warm and the bees have decided that heaven exists on my porch. All that sugar, so little time. I sprayed the pumpkins with laquer but that didn't seem to deter at all. The laquer doesn't deter Ariah from pulling off the candy and eating it either.

Cole's pumpkin. Very warty.

Mine and Ariah's pumpkin.

Ambra's pumpkin. Her little friend Bailey helped with this.

Decoration zone.

Black Island Farms

We went to Black Island Farms in Syracuse with some friends the other day. The kids had some money they had earned, and decided to spend it on this little outing. We had so much fun!! You can see that Ariah was all tuckered out after a long day of play play play!!

The kids playing in the corn.

This is Ariah's first time on the teeter totter. She was so cute! Just giggling and thinking it was the greatest thing ever.

We got to go on a hayride and they gave us onions, carrots, corn and pumpkins to take home. So fun!

Bouncin in the pumpkin.

On the hayride with friends Bailey and Katelyn.

This is the cow train. They get pretty creative with 55 gallon drums.

This slide doesn't look so bad, but it was actually really steep. Pretty scary from the top. They had about 8 different slides made out of hay. It was a really fun place.

Safari!!!

In preschool Cole was learning about animals. On the last day of their animal unit, they got to wear their explorer hats and safari shirts and go hunting for animals in the jungle! Cole thought this was the coolest thing ever. Doesn't he look cute in his little safari hat?