Boo Bash

The kids’ school had a Halloween fundraiser. We made it a fun family evening and had a great time! This blowup corn maze made me laugh. Took the kids about 15 seconds to get through.

They painted pumpkins

Millie really wanted her face painted but whatever high schooler who was supposed to be running that booth wasn’t there. The kid at the next booth over said we were welcome to use the supplies, so Millie asked me to draw a black cat on her face. I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be an artist. Exhibit A.

Millie took over for me and drew an awesome snack for Max.

Our little monsters.

An all-around good time!

Fall/Halloween Fun

Tyler and I went to a fun group date - The Haunting Games! We were divided into teams and sent to solve clues and find the locations of the ingredients we needed for a witches brew. We were team yellow and had lots of fun. 

As we were pulled over on the side of the road doing a puzzle, someone pulled up in their car and asked if we needed any help. I guess we did look like a crew of emergency personnel in our reflecting vests! It was so funny.

Not standing out at all.

Tyler was asked to present the trophies to the winning team and he just loves that stuff. (NOT! But that gave us a pretty good clue as to who the hosting witches were haha)

Team Yellow! Thanks Batilda and Minerva for a fun time, whoever you are!

Next up was the Fall Festival at the elementary school. Tyler was at a work event and we were super glad to have Grandma join us! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves here.

And of course when Grandma asked them for ideas of things they might like for Christmas they were happy to look around online with her.

The kids and I made a ghost town one Saturday. We used old cereal boxes for the buildings, and rocks for the ghosts! Thanks to Made Everyday for the idea.

Max got into the spirit of things.

I laughed so hard when I saw Millie's picture of her "at pukin pach." I guess not everyone loves pumpkin patches!

And this cute boy had fun with candy corns in preschool.

While Mom was away

The kids had so much fun with Tyler while I was gone in Utah. While Millie was at school on Friday, the boys went to a pumpkin patch with Grammy, Gigi, Heidi, and Wes! 

And Tyler enjoyed all the Harvey snuggles. He sent this to me and I was super jealous!

I'm thankful the kids were in such good hands while I was away. They have a fantastic dad!

Halloween (weekend) 2016

The kids went back and forth on costumes so many times this year! Since last Halloween Millie was planning to be "the real Cinderella," which I was thrilled about since we already had the dress. But of course a few weeks before she started wanting to dress as everything else. Max was planning to be Buzz Lightyear after Sharon gave him the awesome outfit, but once Millie started spouting off ideas he of course followed suit. I was pleasantly surprised they wanted to coordinate and be Mickey and Minnie Mouse! I thought I had had my one year of matching costumes and was ready to let them choose their own. Love these little buddies.

I didn't do anything crazy for these costumes - pretty much everything I bought can be used again as regular clothes, so I guess it's not a true costume, but oh well.

We had our ward Trunk or Treat on Saturday. The kids were so excited! Max loved all the carnival-y games and Millie loved the inflatable obstacle course.

I think this was the most hot and uncomfortable I've ever been in my entire life. Everyone was sweating and it was pretty miserable out there! But thanks to my massive umbrella and my Yeti (of course), I survived. I was going to delete this picture since it's pretty unflattering, but what is flattering at 36 weeks pregnant?? Plus, my Pumpkin Smuggler shirt was awesome.

Tyler took the kids around to trunk or treat and I passed out candy. I felt so bad that everything was so melted after being in the hot car for 2 hours! Hopefully everyone did what we did and put their candy in the fridge for a while once they got home. 

On Halloween we woke to some awesomely eery fog. It was so dense that we came back from our walk to find little water droplets all over our hair and eyelashes!

We went to Monka's since the Westons were going to be there. The kids had fun playing with cousins and this was the only pic I got. Max and Briggs played so well together. The kids did some Halloween sticker pictures and we had lunch and Halloween sugar cookies.

We got to bring Tyler home with us (so fun that his work is so close to Monka and Ampa's house!) and then we ate a quick dinner before trick-or-treating. 

Everyone in our neighborhood sits in their driveways to pass out candy, so I went over to Sharon's driveway and we got to visit while the kids went around.

Trick-or-treating is hard work!

After the kids were done in our neighborhood we went to see Gigi, Poppy, Heidi, James, and Wes. Poppy took them around for a bit too (while Tyler and I enjoyed Gigi's yummy soup!) and we all had lots of fun.

Our last stop each year is Nana and Botz's house. They had special treats ready for us which was so thoughtful. We enjoyed visiting and got the kids to bed way too late! Still paying for that 2 days later! Oh well. It was a fun and memorable Halloween.