Happy Halloween!

Halloween was super fun this year! For one thing, it was Abby's first Halloween trick-or-treating! She loved it! Halloween for us started on Wednesday, with Halloween story time at the Library. It ended on Saturday with Trick-or-treating. Because Halloween was on Sunday this year everyone here in Utah trick-or-treated on Saturday. I am so grateful to live in a place were the majority of the citizens observe the Sabbath day as a day of worship. Anyway, on Thursday we had a Halloween party at our Pre-school. Here are some of the kids in there costumes. We couldn't get all of the kids together in one picture and Abby refused to get close to the Ninga Turtle for the picture. She was terrified of anything in a mask, including team mascots (I'll explain below). But it was a lot of fun!

Here is my awesome Pumpkin Cake I made for the Party!

Then on Friday night we went to the Halloween Extravaganza at the Rec. Center! It was fun. Here we are trick-or-treating at the booths around the upstairs track! Everyone got a kick out of Benjamin's home-made Thomas the Tank Engine costume!

In one of the gyms they had all kinds of games and prizes to win like this one shooting hoops! Benjamin nailed it! Even with his big bulky box he was wearing! That's our boy!

In another gym they had balloon animals, face painting and all the mascots from around the state! Cosmo (BYU Mascot) even dressed up as Robin!

Here's Benjamin with the Orem Owlz Mascot. As you can see I stayed away with Abby. If we even got close she would start crying hysterically! It was actually kind of funny.

Saturday Morning we carved Pumpkins! This was a first for our kids, but they didn't like all the mushy stuff inside so Mom and Dad ended up doing most of the carving.

Later that evening we braved the rainy weather and headed to my brother-in-laws trunk-or-treat at their ward.

Someone there was dressed as Elmo and the kids got a huge kick out of it. Remember, how I told you Abby is terrified of Mascots? She wasn't of this one! She kept following him around! Anyway, see the big rain cloud behind us?, about two minutes after this picture we got pounded by a huge hail/rain storm!

So we packed up and headed to Isaac's parents house, to visit with grandparents and see if the storm cleared up anytime soon. We got some cute pictures of the kids while were were there. Aren't Benjamin's striped overalls the cutest?! My mom found them at Smithfield Implement! Thanks Mom! They were perfect. I can't even tell you how many compliments we got on his costume!

Here is the back of Abby's costume! She was such a cute little Butterfly! I especially love how you can barely see her little face poking out!

Well around 7 pm the rain stopped and we hit the streets! It was a blast! The kids especially like trick-or-treating with their cousins!

Here's Aaron and Benji knocking on a door. What a fun night!

When we got home Abby didn't even want to eat her candy she just wanted to dump it all out and then put it back in her basket over and over.

And here is Benji with his stash! Except he only gets to keep what is in that zip lock bag.

Happy Halloween!