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!