Halloween - Finally!

We were able to do lots of fun things for Halloween this year, and I've been putting this off until I thought I'd really have some time to get it done (as I sit here listening to Christmas music :) ) because it's going to be a long post.  I have to get it out of the way so I can catch up on some of our other fun stuff we've done since Halloween.  I already posted about Hee Haw Farms and our Cookie Decorating with our Aussies, but here goes everything else. . . 

October 20, 2012

Kid Halloween Party

Our upstairs neighbors moved.  So sad!  But luckily they still live pretty close and invited us to their Kid Halloween party a week and a half before Halloween.  It was totally fun.  Thanks again, Lonny for inviting us.  You did such an amazing job putting it all together.  We miss you guys!!

The kids got to pick out a prize every time they participated in a game

 Me & my skeleton girl

 Pin the bow-tie on the skeleton

(Aurora took the bow off her own head at one point and wanted to wear the skeleton's bow-tie on her head instead.  Silly girl.)

 Pumpkin bowling - It was hard for her to push it hard enough to knock the TP over

 I helped a little :)

 Pushing a balloon across the yard with a broom

 She did pretty good on her own

 Wrapping Aurora like a mummy

 She did so good and held still for me to do it :)

 Dar played the doughnut on the string game

 Aurora thought he was pretty hilarious trying to eat his doughnut like that :)

 Good job, skeleton Daddy!

 Our cute skeleton family :)

*Sidenote: Aurora was voted as having the best kid costume at the party.  Probably because she was just so stinkin' cute, because there really were some pretty cool kid costumes there!

October 23, 2012

Neighborhood Kid Party

Another friend and neighbor, Lalani, organized another Kid Halloween party at our church.  She did it last year too but Aurora was just little still so this year was much more fun for us!  Thanks, Lalani for all of your effort and planning fun things for the kids in the neighborhood!  To help with the party everyone brought either a treat to share or a game for the kids to play.

I brought "Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin"

Aurora didn't use a blind fold but still put the pumpkin's nose on his eye 

 Decorating a plate

 Rori's green and purple jack-o-lantern

 Racing superheros on a string (or something like that)

 My cute skeleton girl

 Aurora with a couple of her favorite people in the world:

P (superman) & R (a witch)

 Cuties!!

 Pumpkin bowling

 Crawling under a spider web - Rori LOVED this one and kept doing it over and over again

 At the end the kids did a costume parade so all the moms (and a couple dads in attendance) could see all the costumes

 Love these two babies, who really aren't babies anymore :(

October 27, 2012

Ward Party

We had a ward chili/pie cook-off the Saturday before Halloween.  I brought chili last year and didn't win, so I decided to contribute my favorite pie this year instead.  We were a little disappointed with the attendance, but we still had fun because the food was yummy and some of our BFFs in our ward were there too, so that's all that mattered :)  When we got there we were the only ones in costumes.  Seriously!?  A ward party the weekend before Halloween and nobody wears costumes?  Luckily Dorothy, Tin Man, and the Lion showed up, and eventually a few other people showed up in costumes too.

Our good friends Robert, Denise, and Carson
(hope you don't mind I stole this from your blog :) )

Aurora and Carson are good buds.  Luckily they're learning to be nicer to each other after fighting a lot like brother and sister.  They both need younger siblings :)

 

 

 Cuties :)

October 29, 2012

FHE with McSweeney's - Pumpkin Carving/Painting

Fun FHE activities with the McSweeney's two weeks in a row is totally a bonus!  We had fun decorating Halloween sugar cookies with them but ran out of time to do pumpkins so we decided to do that together the next week.  Thanks, Trace, for sharing your pictures!!

My cute girl excited and ready to paint her pumpkin

 Aurora was so focused and totally into it :)

I'm totally envious of how Tracee got her to smile - she NEVER smiles for me when I ask her to!

 

She went a little crazy with the paint, and this was after I had wiped her hands down

Mr. P was really into it also.  Such a cute boy!

 LOVE the lips :)

And Little Miss R did such a great job, as always.  She's so artistic!!

 A few group shots

Aurora was trying to paint Jared's pumpkin so he was giving her "the look."  Love it!

The kid's pumpkins

R's, P's, and Aurora's

Dar's pumpkin turned out really cool too!

Good job, guys!  We should turn this into an annual Halloween tradition!

October 31, 2012

Halloween Night!

Aurora's very first time trick-or-treating was to "Bampa and Gramga" Deming's house.  Grandma was still at work, so we got to treak-or-treat at their house twice!

 I think this picture is cute.  So Grandpa, and so Aurora :)

 Putting her candy in her monster

 Hanging out on the porch waiting for Dad

 We went trick-or-treating at my cousin's in the area but we didn't get any pictures because we were trying to hurry to meet up with the McSweeney's.  This picture is awful, but I wanted to remember the coolest costume we saw - the headless horseman, riding a real horse!  So cool!

 Tracee was a genius, yet again, and brought the wagon to pull the babies in.  Genius!

Trick-or-treating!

 Dar being silly :)

 Last house - Bob and Grandma Trease's house

The group at the end of the night

 
Aurora's loot.
Not much, but perfect!  I had to take out all the chocolate and especially the M&Ms after taking the picture

What a fun Halloween month!  We decided it's way more fun to celebrate holidays with kids of your own.  We're totally loving it!  Dar and I also realized this was the first time we've been trick-or-treating since we were in junior high school.  A long time for me, and an even longer time for Dar ;)  Here's to many more years to come with lots more trick-or-treating!!

Halloween Words Aurora can say:
Happy Halloween: Appy Ouween!
Trick-or-Treat: Teet!
Candy: Cany

*Sidenote: Aurora officially made me sick of one of my favorite movies this Halloween season, "The Nightmare Before Christmas."  Some days we watched it 2+ times!  I bet we watched it over 30 times in the month of October.  She even begged to watch it again this morning (11.16.12) before we head out to go to our Family Life Conference at UVU.  Argh!