Happy Halloween & Birthday!!

it's my last year in my thirties!! yikes!!  

I absolutley LOVE having my birthday on Halloween!  It is so fun for my kids too.  

It is definitely the busiest day EVER, but so much fun.  

we started off the morning getting kids off to school in costumes, I went to Crossfit

 dressed up in my first costume for the day, a Red Sox fan!  Then ate lunch 

at Cafe Rio with my sisters! My sister Rachel came down from Idaho for the weekend

and I LOVED having her here.  After birthday lunch they met me at the kids

School for the Parade and then Class Party.

I make the Witches Brew every year in their class and they LOVE it! It's my favorite

thing to do,  Ivy was my cute little witchy helper. ha!

the kids LOVE it!

After school we had my sisters and their kids and my nephew and niece who 

are here at BYU come and eat some Soup in bread bowls and cupcakes

 before we sent the kids out to trick or treat! 

It was a perfect night for trick or treating... always fun to see all the kids dressed up 

in costumes.  

the night ended with an extra scare to the Haunted Forest with the older cousins... ugh!

Rex Kwon Doe!

  

olivia and her bff Tessa match eachother every year.  It's so cute!!

**** Class Party****

Witches Brew with the twins class, they LOVE this...

*** Ivy's pre school party the day before***

we played a fun game called "don't eat the Monster" and decorated cookies!

pictures before they head out for Trick or Treating!!

 Brody and Hayes were so cute this year... Loved how they matched for Mario & Luigi!

ha!  My nephew Garrett loves mario brothers! 

Mindy made a yummy Clam Chowder that we ate before heading out... along with the Sweet 

Tooth fairy cupcakes! yummy!!

The cousins!

pumpkin carving.

keeping Halloween extra spooktacular, this year we made spaghettin in bell peppers, the kids thought that was so fun.  along with our traditional 'Dinner in Pumpkin' we added some 

"after Ghoul snacks" ha!!  i love this time of year!!

We carved pumpkins for family night and it is always a mess, but so fun to see the 

end result, right?! 

Halloween Party!

Our good friends always host the best halloween party every year!  This years theme was 

"TV Land" blast from the past TV shows.  I couldn't help but get the 

Spartan cheerleader costumes.  

Cory is such a good sport.  Always willing to dress however i want!  love that boy!

We ate TV dinners and played family feud!  I won for "Most Realistic!" ha!  

my favorite cheer from SNL Spartan cheerleaders is the chess tournament one.

Always hilarious!!

 

here are just a few good ones..

  Lavern and Shirley were the ultimate hostesses! 

Happy October...

I LOVE surprising my kids with a bunch of halloween goodies and treats when they

get home from school!  It's become a little tradition now.  I'm sure they love halloween 

as much as i do by now, they were so cute when they came home, even my little teenager

loves this stuff! 

I love this time of year...

Even Sadie got a little costume!

That same weekend was conference, so while the boys were at Priesthood session the little 

ones and I went with my sister and her kids up to Gardners Village to the Witchfest. 

 It's so much fun to go and see the witches and shop around. 

Halloween!!

Possibly one of my favorite holidays! Oh and it is my Birthday!!

 Love Halloween and Love how much my kids get into it.  They love counting down the

days to my birthday and told me all day "happy birthday mom" it was perfect. 

38 years and going strong!

  

We couldn't have asked for better weather!! 75 degrees and absolutely 

beautiful day and Night! We were so spoiled!

Boston knew right away what he wanted to wear a Morph suit! He knew right 

away and usually he doesn't know what to do!  I love that he still will dress up.

he almost didn't at school, but last minute he put it on with shorts and a shirt over it

of course.

Hayes was Napoleon Dynamite and literally was in character all morning!  He

cracks me up! I was laughing all morning at him.  He would do the Napoleon dance

with his "happy hands" and we were dying!  

My sweet innocent Olivia wanted to be a vampire! ugh!  What happened to being a 

princess and cute characters! haha   she was dead set on being the Vampire while her 

bff Tessa was her bat.  they were so cute!!

Ivy was the Lalaloopsey doll!  the wig is hilarious and she wore it plenty of times throughout

the month.. to school, school carnival, etc... but on Halloween night she said No Way!

she lasted longer than i thought though.

here they are right before school...

"happy hands club"

After their Halloween Parade at school, Ivy and I went to help in their class for their 

Halloween Party!   I Love going and helping and doing my famous "Witches Brew" which 

they LOVE!  My twins look forward to this every year!  I was trying to remember how many 

years I have done this, it's been since Boston was in Kindergarten!!  crazy huh!  they

never tire of it.

we came home and of course Boston had to do it again with some friends, along with our

 Frankenstein pudding cups and our Traditional jack o lantern pizza!  

My talented neighbor took professional pictures of the kids before they headed out

trick or treating!  I loved that she did this for us, the only bummer was that Boston and Cory 

were at Football practice until 6:30! boo!

i think they turned out super cute!

we started off in our cul de sac until Cory could take them out.  by the time cory got home they

were already off with different groups of friends, even Ivy!  haha!{with adults of course}

they were all having a blast. 

Hayes came home after a few more cul de sacs and helped me pass out candy. 

 He was an awesome helper!

Boston got home in time to run out and catch up with some friends.  Later when i saw 

him with his friends, they were scaring kids {older kids} and jumping out of bushes!
oh great, i forgot i had an obnoxious teenager! haha

my cute little helper.

that night i usually throw in the rest of the 'dry ice' from my 

witches brew into the tub with them for a spooky bath! 

they ask for this every year now!

i Love Halloween!!

check out our halloween pasts...here, here, here, here {possibly my fav. costumes}, here & here