All Hallow's Eve

I love Halloween for sure, but I was almost beginning to think we'd over done it with activites and trick or treating until the big night came and went.

Trunk or Treat!

We all made it there in time, in costume, trunk decorated and with soup! And without dad. Sad that we were without dad but impressed that I did all that by 10am!
And my trunk won a prize! ha ha granted it was probably only because they had more prizes than trunks decorated or something but still!

Embrie's butterfly hair


In the middle of the day on Halloween we visited Brad at work. We took lunch there and got to trick or treat to the different departments!

the kids were painfully shy about it at first

But by nightfall Garrett was over the shyness and it only took Embrie about 10 houses to be right behind him. We went with a group of friends and he and his friend were always nearly two houses ahead of the rest of us!

This is the most candy we've ever had in our buckets! ( granted this is all our trick or treating plus the carnival together) I guess we're getting to that age now! :) Now I just need to convince him that he has to eat other 'healthy' foods too.

Witches

Happy Halloween My Fellow Hags!

3rd annual Witches Tea

My alter-ego

(I think the black hair made me look more like my mom.)

My awfully witchy friends
Jena, Amy, Mandy, Nicole, Emily, Rachel, Stacey, Angela, Nickie, Sheena, Shannon, Shamie

Seriously Bewitching ;)



Cackle

Shamie, me, Sheena, Sandi, Shannon

Cackle
Amy, me, Rachel, Emily

A little magic and spell weaving ;)

Rachel & Emily
What happens at a witches tea stays at a witches tea
me & Sheena

My best (or should I say worst) dressed witch and the Witch with the most spine tingling cackle!

Jena & Nicole

Warning! Do not stare directly into her eyes!
Jena

Witch Stacey

Witch Jena

Witch Shannon

Witch Angela

witches Mandy & Nicole

We were missing a few hags this year, they were sorely missed.

Pumpkin carving 2011

Halloween Party for Garrett

Garrett was super excited to get together with his friends for Halloween!

Can you tell these guys are ready for the Holiday?!

This isn't even the end product I don't think there was a surface on this cookie that didn't have candy on it!

We had a yummy fall lunch, decorated cookies, and trick-or-treated. We had some other things planned, but the kids just loved playing together so much that we let them go at it. We were missing a few friends due to sickness, Embrie included. She had a fever so Dad took her on a daddy daughter date to Cabella's instead (girl's dream date right? ha ha) where she got to see the animals and watch them feed the fish. Thank heaven dad was home to save the day!

Its been awhile

It's been awhile since I've taken just me and my kids somewhere and we didn't have friends that we were going with or meeting. This time we had planned to meet with friends but no one else could go. I decided that we'd go anyway and I am glad that we did.
We headed to the aviary. It was a very nice fall day and we had lots of fun. It was nice to just kick back and not be in a rush to get through it all. The kids set the pace and we took our time. . . .

we fed ducks

were silly

saw a new exhibit called the Owl Forest

enjoyed each other

saw the Halloween Decorations and got rained on by leaves!

I love owls so I thought this was great so did the kids.

played

Garrett was into the map, he made sure we knew where we were and where we were going.

were silly some more

and some more

and yes, even some more (I guess Garrett didn't want me to feel left out, or he just wanted to handle the camera hmmm.)

followed the tree stump path

Good times.

Halloween Party for Embrie

Embrie had a fun Halloween party with a few fun friends!

(and yes pink butterflies do exist! )

decorated sugar cookies

ate said sugar cookies

some practice trick-or-treating

made some foam ghosts!

and it aint not fun if you don't leave with a big mess and a huge smile!