HALLOWEEN

Here are all of our Halloween Festivities this year:

First we went with Grandma to her ward's Fall Festival at church. It was a lot of fun. They had tons of games for the kids to play, Abby's favorite was the cupcake walk, I think we brought home at least a dozen cupcakes. The kids came home with their buckets over flowing with candy. We could have stopped there, but why when there are more opportunities to over indulge in sugar:)

Ally-the wicked witch

Abby-Dorothy

Abby playing the duck pond game

Ally pinning the mouth on the mummy

Ally trunk-or-treating with Auntie Jen

JoDell you did a great job on the party, Abby still talks about how much fun she had there!

Next we went to a Halloween party for our ward at church. They had a few games to play and then of course more trunk-or-treating. The kids came home with more candy in their buckets:)

Abby & her friend, Bryndie

Ally-the wicked witch

Then we decided to decorate a Haunted Cookie Mansion. They kids had lots of fun putting this together and sticking all the decorations on. It was a lot less mess than cookies:)

Abby, Ally, Grandma, Gabe, Francis, Elijah & Me

Elijah kept wanting to eat the frosting, so when we were all done my mom just squeezed it all in his mouth. He loved it, I was getting a stomache ache just watching.

The finished product

This is Abby & Ally in their shirts from Auntie Julie. Abby had a party at school and got her face painted and of course, more candy! Thanks Aunt Julie....we can't wait to see you in a fe weeks:)

And Finally there was trick-or-treating, we invited grandma, the boys I nanny and their mom over for pizza beforehand. We all had a wonderful time. Suzanne was our make-up artist, and this time we really turned Ally into the wicked witch, green face and all. The kids had a ton of fun going out and getting candy, and Abby of course would have kept going all night if I would have let her. She really loves trick-or-treating. Ally on the other hand kept wanting to go back to her house and eat her candy:) Do you blame her?

Our jack-o-latern pizza from Papa Murphys

Benny-flying monkey, Suzanne-Zombie-mom, Gabe-Rapper-mummy, Francis-soldier, Elijah-???? Sorry I can't remember what he called himself.

Suzanne applying Ally's make-up. It was more like a wrestling match trying to get her to hold still.

Ally-the wicked witch, and Abby-Dorothy

Elijah, Gabe & Abby

Ally, pulling the wagon.....hopefully she doesn't come home with the wagon full:)

Ally & Our neighbor, Angela

Abby & Ally trick-or-treating

Abby & Grandma

Grandma took Abby around the whole neighborhood, and Abby still wan't ready to quit. she filled her bucket up like 3 times. I brought Ally home after just our street, she was ready to start eating.

Abby & Daddy

Daddy stayed home to pass out the candy, but then joined Abby & Grandma to finish up the neighborhood. Daddy carried Dorothy when her legs got tired following the yellow brick road. For some reason though this Dorothy just wanted more candy, she didn't care about finding her way back home;)

Hope everyone had a fun Halloween, I know we certainly did. The weather was perfect, and we got enough candy to last all year!

PUMPKIN PATCH

On Friday night we took the girls to "Berry Hill Farm" to pick out pumpkins. Smiles were hard to come by for Allison, she was not a happy camper, until the end when the guy with the pumpkin head made her laugh. Abby had fun trying to pick out a pumpkin, and after much deliberation she picked one that could be mistaken for an orange. The girls enjoyed seeing the animals, and for Allison the best part was pulling her own wagon, the one she picked, not the one Daddy got for her. She decided that she just wanted popcorn, and "no dumpkin!" So Daddy picked one for us, and Abby got her "orange" (good thing we don't actually carve the pumpkins) and we were on our way home.

Ally & Daddy looking at the sheep...I think.

Daddy, Abby & the sheep.

Ally pulling her wagon, of which no pumpkins were allowed to go in.

Abby & her friend, Emma

Mommy, Ally & Abby picking out a pumpkin

Abby & her orange......I mean pumpkin:)

Abby & Ally...I think I see a half a smile!

Finally a smile....and its time to go home!

WISCONSIN DELLS

We finally took the girls to the much anticapated "Wisconsin Dells". We stayed at The Great Wolf Lodge, and the kids had a blast. They had 4 different water parks to play at and this place called "Wiley's Woods", which is a giant play area filled with balls that you load up on and then go up and shoot them at everyone else. I am not sure who had more fun the adults or the kids. Abby & Ally liked to climb in the giant pots of balls and hide. We all had a great time swimming and just hanging out and relaxing.

MOVIE IN THE PARK

Every Saturday night in September & October our city has "movie in the park". I took the girls to a couple of them, and they love it. They project it on this giant inflatable screen, and they even hand out popcorn:) The best part is that it is all free!!!! This particular time we saw Open Season, which I don't think they paid much attention too, but it was fun for them to be all bundled up in blankets and watching a movie outside.

APPLE ORCHARD

Abby's class took a field trip to Deer Lake Apple Orchard. The kids had tons of fun, I was responsible for three of them, boy was that work. We got to see how the apples were picked and sorted, then we saw how they were cleaned and packaged. We also took a tractor-wagon ride through the spooky forest, not very spooking during the day, and there was a petting zoo, crate-maze, and hay to jump in. The kids were all disappointed they didn't get to eat any apples, but apparently that was what was for snack the next day in class:)

Alyseia, Abby & Jayden

Apple cleaning & sorting

Alyseia, Jayden, Abby & Rachel on the wagon ride

The crate-maze

Hay jumping!