Halloween Overload

So we've been celebrating Halloween since Monday!!! And needless to say I am SOOO done!!

It started Monday night for Family Home Evening we had Pumpkin Pizza!! It was a hit (thanks to Pappa Murphy's) Then for some unknown reason my friend Trisha and I decided to cook dinner for the Entire Dutch John Elementary. There's only 30 kids but we went all out. Including green witch finger bread sticks, spider cookies and spaghetti coming out of a pumpkins brain.

It went great then we had a trip to the corn maze with Dutch John Elementary. Jordynn goes to school there but I pulled out the other three from their school to go too!! It was VERY fun and it was a beautiful day! Then we had a daddy daughter dinner (Jordynn and Michaela went)

We had an adult costume party where Ben went as a pumpkin tree (a.k.a. DORK) and we played some fun games!!

Then Trisha and I were the mom's in charge of the 1st/2nd grade room Halloween party. It was fun and I especially liked "stick the wart on the witch" (with bubble gum) Didn't Ben draw a great witch?


And last but not least we went back to Dutch John for a chili fundraiser dinner. Then there was trick-or-treating around the school. We stayed in Dutch John and dd trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.

Then it was home to check out the loot!!


Funniest quote of the night by Zach, while we were headed home, "But I have room mom!" Mom: "Room for what?"

Zach: "Room for more candy! We can't be done yet!"

PUMPKINS!!!!

When you live in a place like Manila, it's hard to get stuff done. With stores over an hour away, it's hard to remember everything and fit it all in the car. Last trip to the store my car was SOOOO packed (I hadn't been to the store in 6 weeks) that there wasn't room for the kids. Luckily they were at home. But to have to have fit 4 GIANT pumpkins in my car.....wasn't going to happen. So this year I was thankful when a local lady set up a "pumpkin patch" and let the kids in town pick a pumpkin and they all got a cookie and cider. It was a nice Saturday morning and now we have our pumpkins for Jack-O-Lanterns!! Now the big question???? When do we carve them?????

It's that time of year again....

SCHOOL PICTURES!

Here are a few that didn't make the cut!!

Notice Zach with his cast....

poor Zach

At least they are sill cute no matter what the pictures say.

Busy, always busy

These last few weeks have been busy and good. Michaela is almost done with volleyball, and fall has come to Manila.

Here are a few pictures of how it looked this morning driving the girls to Dutch John for school.

The last 2 weekends I've been in Salt Lake for fun!! I went to dinner with college roommates 2weeks ago and it was great to catch up with everyone.

Then last weekend I went back for our semi annual girls night out while the men folk go to priesthood. It was fun and for the first time we had ALLLL sisters, mom and grandma. It was a great dinner at Red Robin.

And now we're getting ready for cooler weather and inevitably snow...