A few weeks ago we made our traditional spooky gingerbread house for FHE.
We BOO'd our neighbors - the kids ate this up and wanted to do more neighbors. We'll have to do more people next year.
On Wednesday, even though she was deathly ill, Makenna attended her preschool Halloween bash. It was cute. They decorated pumpkins, played games, decorated cookies and shared treats. 
On Wednesday night, we had our traditional dinner in a pumpkin dinner (I usually do this on Halloween night but this year our ward Trunk or Treat and dinner was on Halloween so we did it earlier in the week).
It looks kind of gross but it is really good and the kids loved it.
We also had mummy dogs:
We carved our pumpkins:
(you can tell how sick M is in these pics by looking at her eyes)
Finished pumpkins:
Thursday: Had a big Activity Days Daddy Daughter Halloween party that I was in charge of. I have no pictures but it turned out to be really fun! (Have I mentioned that I'm BACK in AD again? - hooray!!!)
Friday: Yesterday after school in an attempt to distract the kids from wanting to ToT too early, we made and decorated sugar cookies. Apparently we are no respecter of holidays as many of these are decorated with Christmas and valentine sprinkles.
Finally, my little ToTers. Carter's school does not celebrate Halloween in any way (no fall festival or anything), which really makes me sad for him. So last night was his one and only time in his costume this year.
My cute astronaut (forgive the glare of his helmet, he wouldn't take it off):
Ariel (she and Addie were supposed to be dressed alike but at the last second (Monday) she decided she wanted to be Ariel. I preferred the other costume but want her to dress up as she wants. I really had to scrounge to find a costume on time):
Monarch butterfly (you would never know that she was so sick here):
The crew before ToT and the ward party (Allen had dressed up for work):
We had a great holiday season despite having the sickies around here. Hope you did too!
(Usually I'm really ready to move on to Christmas once Halloween is over. Not so much this year. We were out having lunch today, sitting on the patio and the restaurant was blaring Chrismtas music. Strange since it's still 95 degrees out.)
17 comments:
Yea!! I love your holiday posts and couldn't wit to read this onme. I LOVE Carter's obsession w/astonauts! He's so cute! And darling costumes for Kenna and Addie!
I saw on Kelly's post that they do the Halloween gingerbread houses too -- cute idea! So, what's the pumpkin soup recipe? That looks so cool!
I love seeing your posts. Thanks for sharing. I'm sorry to hear that your kids have been sick.
Cute, cute, cute. How lucky Carter, Makenna and Miss Lulu are to have such a dedicated and caring mom!
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So many fun activities! Everyone looks adorable, but I have to say that the astronaut costume turned out so great! Sorry about the sickies. At least they could still go out.
And I have to say that I expected you to write at the end that you had Christmas music blaring. I'm so surprised you don't!
what a fun week for you guys! I'm sorry for the sickies though! Makenna's hair looks so cute straightened!
Very cute costumes. Enjoy it while you can. Kids outgrow lots of the Halloween things awfully quickly. We haven't carved pumpkins now for a couple of years.
I hope the kids are feeling better! They looked adorable in their costumes, Carter's is genius - love it! You are such a fun mom with all those cute traditions!
Looks like you had fun even with the sick ones. Hope they feel better soon, I'm pretty sure my kids think candy can cure anything!
Darling costumes, all of them! Sickies are no fun, what troopers for plowing through it! Makenna looks a lot older in these pics, perhaps it is the straight hair. Lots of fun activities you guys did! They all look great. And isn't it funny how sometimes we find ourselves in the same callings over and over again? I'm sure you are excellent at AD, hence the repeat callings! I think that would be a really fun calling (if I can ever get out of the Primary Presidency thing)!
Wow, is it just me or do your kids look a bit older in these pics? Maybe it's C and M's hair is different or something. Yuck for sickness this week. :( I really liked Carter's costume. Where did you find something like that? Fun, fun!
I love the Halloween gingerbread house idea! I love all the activities you had planned for your kids! They looked adorable in their costumes! And how fun that Alan got to dress up for work too!
you can tell that M is sick in the pics, but she still looks like she had fun! Your hot dog mummies looked way better than my dinner (you'll see on my blog), i'll try that next year. love the kids costumes and looks like you had a fun week!
Your kids look DARLING in their costumes!! You guys did so many fun things for Halloween! I feel for you on your kids being sick....our month was pretty much the same!! And lastly, I feel just like you about moving onto Christmas so soon! We've been having great weather here too and Christmas music just doesn't seem right, right now! :o)
I'm sorry you've been sick over there. Hope everyone is feeling better.
Your Halloween sounds amazing. You are so cute to come up with fun traditions, and you make everything so fun for your kids!
you already have so many comments, I swear you are so popular or something. maybe it's just because you are so dang creative and your kids are so adorable. they look so great, i love the costumes and hope everyone is feeling better soon. (i also hope you get a cold front, it's good for the soul)
What cuties in their costumes! I hope that they are feeling better. :( It's no fun to be sick during the holidays. Did you get dressed up? You are always so awesome to do all those fun things for your kids.
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