Halloween 2014!

Witch, Minion, Zebra, Skeleton

Our traditional visit to Gardner Village! Alix, Cole, and Bode were Vanillope, Fix-it Felix, and Wreck-it Ralph.

At the costume parade:

Q even wanted zebra stripes on her hair!

As the kids get older, it has been a little weird letting them go Trick-or-treating with their friends, without Mom or Dad.  Millie's first year was last year, and this year Sambo did as well. BS took Will and Q and their friends. They have awesome friends!

Liv, Skye, Kiersten, Millie, MJ's cousin, MJ, JB, Christian, Boomer

Andrew, Cache, Cody, Mason, Cayden

Noah, Connor, Cayden

Kemry, Lauren, Addison, ?, Breckon, Sam, Jared (hidden), Josh, Brycen, Seth

Issac, Maddux, Will

Grandma and Grandpa were having their own fun in Boston with Ron and Connie!  They were there during the World Series in which the Red Sox won!  They went to nearby Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween and everywhere they went it was all about witches.  Check out these funny pics:

Pics of our pumpkins and festive treats we made:

And Quincy in her festive HP outfit:

Even BS strapped on a his Nacho for the neighborhood party :)

Halloween Part 2:

We started out the big day with Ghostly Pancakes

Our Jack 0' Lanterns!  We didn't spend a ton of time on them this year but it was as enjoyable just the same!

The fabulous school Costume Parade:

Between school and Trick or Treating, our {fantasic!} new neighborhood held an annual Halloween get together at the local park.  Everyone pitches in and it is a grand event!  We have soups, salads, hot dogs, desserts, hot chocolate, and mingling before heading out for the night.  We love our new neighborhood so much!

This was the first year that we haven't stayed together to go Trick or Treating.  Millie had made plans to go with a group of her friends,  Sambo started out with BS but soon was running ahead with his friends, and Will invited a handful of his friends to go with him.  So it ended up being BS and Quincy and sometimes Will, Sambo, and their posse. 

 I didn't even manage to get a picture of the 4 of them together on our porch like I do every year.  

Dang it!

Millie and some of her cute friends

I stayed home to give out candy but I was wishing I was out Trick -or-Treating because it was the warmest, most beautiful Halloween night that I can remember ever.  But soon my Quincy was home and I had a great time watching her hand out candy to our many visitors.  She would always wish everyone a "Happy Halloween" in the cutest voice :) 

Love Halloween!

Here are some pics of other cute pumpkins Millie and I made:

Made this guy at my  Bunko night

 

And here is some Halloween art Q made:

Halloween Part 1

A couple of days before Halloween, I had the pleasure of going on a field trip with Quincy to Thanksgiving Point.  We had a great time!  We learned about farm animals, went on a hay ride, and saw and touched many animals.  I enjoyed watching Q interact with the other kindy kids in her class and she was so happy to have me there.  I am so glad to be able to go on field trips with my kids.

Her friends Tessa and Annie

Later that day we met our cousins and Grandma Cindy and Aunt Heidi at Gardner Village!  This has become a tradition and we love to show-off our costumes, find all of the witches milling around, eat a yummy dinner, and do a little shopping.  So fun!  Thanks Grandma!

The Lorax and Iron Man {Bode}

 

Millie came straight from her Halloween Dance that she had helped plan with Student Council

Costumes!

Halloween has come and gone and I have plenty to blog about from the past month - but for now I will stick with just the costumes.

This year, Halloween was pretty low key as far as the costumes {for once}.

Millie went back and forth between being a super hero with her friends to a princess with her friends to not dressing up at all and then settling on Cindy Lou Who.  I'm proud of her for not following the crowd - she just was what she wanted to be...and came up with the idea and her costume herself.  The only thing we had to buy was the top.  I thought the hair-do would be very intense but it actually only took 15 minutes.  I have to say it was perfect in the morning before school, but by the time I took a picture that evening it was a bit disheveled.  Oh well, she looks darling anyway!

And, PS, she went to her first "dance" after school.  They had a Halloween dance that she helped plan and decorate for Student Council.  I may have found an excuse to bop over to the school and spy, but I soon realized that kids these days just stand around and talk during the dance.  Sometimes they might fast dance for a second but that's it.  No slow dancing, which is totally ok with me.  In fact, they played one slow song and it was cut-off halfway because NOBODY was dancing!  When I was her age  it was all about the slow dance :)

Sambo wasn't really worried about what he was going to be until about 2 weeks before.  He was just thinking about friends and football.  I told him he had to decide and commit in case I needed to make anything.  We got online for some ideas and within 5 minutes he had settled on the Lorax.  He thought the mustache was super cool.  Then all I had to do was find some orange sweats.  Thank-you Walmart!


I wanted to stuff his sweats to make him chubby but he thought he would be too hot and sweaty.  True.

Will wanted to be a cheerleader.  I pulled out my good 'ol Spartan cheer uniform from Junior High and Voila!  Easy Peasy!


The only hiccup was that the night before Halloween we got a school-wide phone message that there was no weapons, masks, or cross dressing allowed at the costume parade.
Abort cheerleader!  We desperately pulled-out a gorilla {or monkey?} costume from our dress-up collection and told him it was totally awesome.  He bought it - at least for the school part.  He went back to the cheerleader for Trick-or-treating that night.

Quincy has known since last year that she wanted to be a witch, and lucky for her I had a darling witch costume from when Millie was 5.  She LOVED wearing this costume and was as cute as can be.  Of course, she had to be a witch with a cat so for many days leading up to Halloween you could find her in her witch dress with a broom and a stuffed cat.  Man does she love her stuffed animals!


As for BS and I...we were weak sauce this year.  Life was too crazy to worry about costumes {especially with the boys' football play-offs going on}!  We missed 2 Halloween parties that we usually dress-up for because I went to Cedar City with some girlfriends to see "Les Miserables" {which was fantastic by the way}.  So, we didn't really have an incentive to get fancy with costumes.  Because Halloween was on a Wednesday, I had to pull something together because I work on Wednesdays and I would be considered lame if I didn't dress up.  So I went as a football player.  Threw on the boy's shorts and knee socks and jersey.  Then a little eye black and called it good.

What an awesome Halloween and the kids looked great!