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!

Polar express day at Pre School...

This time of year is always SO much fun, {busy too} buddy our 'elf on a shelf' showed 

up one morning with Christmas jammies for the kids!!  

It worked out perfect because Ivy had Polar Express day at her pre school that day.  

She was so excited to wear her new Christmas jammies to school.

Thanks Buddy!

after Ivy's school party we had cute little performances from Olivia's Company team at the Vibe.  

It was so fun to see what they've been working on and i can't wait for competition time now!  

Olivia did awesome!  Ivy's was the following day and she did great.  I ended up video-ing

 her dance so no pictures of that.  boo! 

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

5th grade luau

boston's 5th grade class had a Luau on the last day of school.  

they went all out and even made a real kahlua pig which was delicious!!

they learned 'pearly shells' from a hawaiian girl.  and all sorts of dances!

they loved it. 

they also all got "snoasis" delivered to them! {that is our all time favorite shaved ice place}

great end to a fabulous year!

now this boy and all of his friends are onto "middle school!" {6th grade,ugh}

kindergarten egg hunt!

our kindergarten teacher is amaze-ing!  

she always has such fun parties and is so wonderful to the kids. 

 she never complains when i bring Ivy every week to class when i come to help.

 so she didn't mind that i brought 6 extra eggs for ivy to find  while the kids were hunting for eggs.

  She's the best!

we hid so many eggs!  and the weather was beautiful for that 30 minutes of fun...

i love how hayes treats his baby sister.   everyone was running around crazy 

searching for eggs and hayes kept grabbing his own eggs out of his basket and would place it on 

the ground right by ivy so she could find one!  

I love that kid!  he has such a tender heart!

livi and her friend avery

hayes with ivy