Halloween

Sorry for such a late Halloween post.  The day after Halloween, we all got the stomach flu.  But that's a whole other post.  ;)

We had a great Halloween weekend celebration!  It started on Friday-we went to Shane's parent's house for a party.  There was yummy food (his mom made this killer spinach/artichoke dip and HOLY YUMMY!  AND there was homemade root beer-it doesn't take much to please me...hahaha), games, and fun music.

Kaden and Lexi were so excited that they FINALLY got to wear their Toy Story costumes that their mean mom had withheld from them for the past month.  Kaden was Buzz, Lexi was Jessie, and Ari was Bullseye. 

Playing "pin the nose on the pumpkin".  Kaden totally cheated the first time and could see, which is why his nose is perfectly centered on the pumpkin.

Lexi peeking out from the blindfold.

Lexi wanted to keep playing (and playing and playing) and just started throwing noses up there...even without tape on them.  hahaha

Saturday morning I went out with some girls from my ward  to Kneader's (in Layton) for breakfast.  We had heard that their french toast is to DIE. FOR. and YES it is!  I highly recommend going there before 11:00 AM and trying it.  Oh!  And they have this DE. LI. CIOUS. chocolate truffle hot chocolate.  Yum.

In the afternoon, we met up with our friend, Kelly, and her kids (Liz and Logan) to play!  Kaden had been asking me for a full month to show Liz his Buzz costume, so he couldn't wait!  We went to the Syracuse City party where there was a lot going on:

(Kelly, I might have stolen a couple of pics from your blog...)

Lexi had to have help from the worker to get up the slide, and then he literally had to push her down it.  But she loved it!  hahahaha  Can you see the terrified expression on her face?

Liz right before she went spinning.  :)

 

Ring toss!

Logan and Liz did great!

Lexi, of course, just put the rings in a straight line on the ground right in front of her.  :)

We hit up the bounce house...

 After the fun and games, we changed the kids into their costumes and went trunk or treating.

From L to R: Logan as an adorable Gnomeo, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Liz as an adorable Juliet, and Bullseye.

We walked around the city pumpkin walk after that, but I didn't get any pictures of that.  Some of the designs were awesome!  Kelly did a Despicable Me minion pumpkin that everyone loved.  She's pretty much a creative genius.

The kids were done after that so we headed to Kelly house for yummy food!

Nom nom nom

Liz with her mummy pizza and mummy hot dog.

Go UTES!  Woo!

Mummy rice krispy treats...apparently mummies were the theme of the night!  :)

After leaving a path of destruction playing for a few hours, we headed home.  The kids crashed almost instantly in the car, which means it was a great day.  :D

Sunday morning, Ari threw up a couple of times (foreshadowing for the day after Halloween), so we stayed home from church and carved pumpkins.  I got three, thinking that Shane would get one, Kaden would get one, and Lexi and I could team up with one.  It turned out that Kaden AND Lexi preferred to just watch momma do all the hard work.  Awesome.

Kaden with his pumpkin: Jack the Pumpkin King (notice his Buzz Lightyear shirt.  He's more obsessed with Buzz than Thomas lately).

All lit up!

Lexi and her dirty face with the witch pumpkin.

All lit up!

 Shane was originally going to do an angry birds themed pumpkin, but when he started, he realized that we didn't have the right tools for it (some of the designs were insanely small) and opted for a more classic look:

MWAHAHAHAHA

Monday (on Halloween), we ended up going to my dad's neighborhood in Syracuse to trick-or-treat.  In the past four years, we've always gone to our friend's house in Clinton, but since they moved to Wisconsin, that wasn't happening this year.  There was NO ONE trick or treating in our Ogden neighborhood, so I'm glad that we went to Syracuse.

We walked around for about two hours and it was SO much fun!!  There were so many homes that had a big bonfire set up in their driveways, one guy had a huge jug of homemade rootbeer and was like "Stay a while-warm up by the fire-how are you?"  Everyone was so friendly!  Maybe I'm too used to my mean Ogden neighbors, but Syracuse was awesome.  I even ran into a friend from Jr. High/High School (Kallee!) who had made a ton of donuts earlier in the day to hand out.  They were delicious!!  

When all of the kids were begging to be done, we went to surprise my dad.  :)

They were so ornery because I wouldn't let them eat any candy until we got a pic of them together.  Lexi, as you can see, snuck a sucker without me knowing.

 It was a really fun Halloween!