Halloween

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, second only to Christmas of coarse!! The weeks leading up to Halloween though made it really hard to get into this year, but that's life! Busy busy busy!!! The up side is that it doesn't take much to still have a good time and that we did!!
We went to Jaden's Fall Festival at her school, something we look forward to every year now. The kids had a lot of fun seeing their friends and playing all of the carnival games. I was volunteering at the popcorn and hot cocoa booth part of the night, so unfortunately I didn't get to take pictures like I wanted. Bummer! We all still had a great time anyhow so all is well!
On Wednesday Bradley had his school party. He had a great time playing with his friends and eating cupcakes. After school, his class paraded for us parents in their costumes.



Jaden had her class party on Thursday. They enjoyed eating hot dogs, cake, cookies, jello made to look like eyeballs, and some veggies while listening to Halloween music and playing bingo.

Halloween day was really busy! I made witch finger bread sticks while John and the kids carved pumpkins. Sadly I didn't get any pictures of them carving their pumpkins and it just donned on me that I didn't even take any pictures of the finish product! I am so mad at myself right now!! Man that stinks!!!
After that we headed over to my parents house for dunch (dinner+lunch=dunch). Jeremy and Katie came into town for the weekend. It was great to have them here to join in the Halloween fun. We ate lots of good food. Thanks Mom and Dad for the poor man dinner it was yummy!! After food and a game of charades, it was off to our ward Trunk or Treat for the long waited for candy!!
With the lack of funds this year all of our costumes, besides Bradley's, was thrown together with what we already had. Which in my opinion makes it even better and the cost of costumes now are absolutely ridiculous!! So this is what we ended up being this year: John was the Love Machine a.k.a. himself he didn't dress up this year and when he was asked what he was, that was his reply. Jaden was Hannah Montana, of coarse. She had a wig, but it was to itchy so she took it off, before we got any pictures of her in it. Bradley was Iron Man!! He loved his costume and when in it, he was NEVER out of character. Owen was a Cowboy Sheriff and also a little trigger happy. And as for me, I was The Amazing Bearded Lady.




Now we look forward to my third favorite holiday... Thanksgiving!

side note: I don't know why, but now whenever I upload pictures, they show up as text on my editing page. If anyone knows why this is or how to fix it, please let my know because it's driving me CRAZY!! Thank you.