Halloween

Halloween this year was quite the deal.  Tracen and Lincoln could not decide what they wanted to be.  Tracen got to dress up for school and he finally decided the night before to be a vampire.  All day on Halloween Lincoln kept changing his mind.  We finally decided to dress him up as a little bit of everything.  When it was time to get dressed he was a zombie, superman, a snowboarder, a scarecrow and a cowboy.  We forgot to get any hulk on him.  Tyler was an angry bird and Jesse was a zombie.  We went and saw Grandma Bev and then ran out to the Calvary Chapel's halloween party.  It was fun for the boys to play some games.  Then we ran Tyler out to Britton's because he's 13 now and too cool for us :)  Then we went to Ann's for dinner.  I had to leave to go to Page for a conference so as soon as we got to Ann's, Mat and Deanna showed up to get me so we could ride over together.  I kissed my scary little people goodbye and ran off.  Josh was a good dad and finished out the night.  He took Jesse over to his friends...because he's also too cool for us and then took the little boys and met up with Megan and Addi and the little kids filled their candy buckets.

Halloween

This year everyone knew exactly what they wanted to be….so the hunt was on to get costumes together. Tyler wanted to be Seneca Crane from the Hunger Games, Jesse an army dude, Tracen Captain America and Lincoln insisted on being the red Angry bird.

We were able to put together Jesse’s costume no problem…thanks Jesse!  Tylers took a little bit more effort and some artistic abilities on my part for his face.  Tracen was a little more work.  I found him a blue set of leggings (I won’t say where ha ha) and a blue long sleeved shirt to which I added a white felt star.  We got a 99 cent hat and Jesse made a duck tape “A” on it.  Red gloves with red duck tape extensions and covered his irrigation boots in red duck tape too (thank heavens for duck tape!)  Jesse had a shield downstairs that he helped Tracen paint into a Captain America shield (extra points for Jesse!).  I made Link’s costume and it was a labor of love.  It looked easy enough….but it was slightly harder than that!  Not too bad though but it did take some time and some trying on….which he didn’t love.  But it turned out so cute and if I ever make one again I’ll know what to change!

Jesse had basketball practice so he stayed in Parowan and went trick-or-treating with his friend Marshall.  Kind of sad that he’s all grown up enough to hang out with friends instead of mom but he had a lot of fun.  Tyler and Tracen and Lincoln went with me to Aunt Lorie’s party, went to see dad for a few minutes (he was working) and then went back to Parowan where we trick-or-treated with Addi (Ty was nice and helped Lincoln out)  Lincoln was so cute running from house to house yelling “trick treat!” and “Tank you!” At one point he was even growling in his deep voice “turn out the lights”  He drug his plastic bag around on the ground (because he’s close to the ground) until it got a hole in it.  The kids are so dang cute at Halloween!

 

 

 

Trick or treating at Grandma’s

The trail of belongings on the way to the candy bowl

Caught

Trick or Treating with Addi….we’re so glad she puts up with us!

I made them take some pictures together once we all got home together.   Jesse definitely ended up with the most candy!

 

Happy Halloween!

Halloween

We had an interesting Halloween this year.  We did most of our partying on Saturday the 29th.  I guess we started back on Thursday though….

Thursday we hosted the Halloween party for Joy School.  We did some fun stuff I found on pinterest.  We made spiders…we traced the kids hands, cut them out (minus thumbs), glued them together and added googly eyes.  We also made skeletons out of q-tips.  We ate Frankenstein for a snack and played a little pumpkin/ghost bowling, ring toss and read a few books.  Tracen dressed up as Buzz for the party.

Friday night Josh and I got to work and we got a little too much halloween fun.

Saturday Josh’s Aunt Lorie had a party for the kids.  They played lots of games and there was a lot of good food.  Tracen decided today that he wanted to be superman…so superman he was.  I finished Link’s super cute (super cheap) ghost costume.  I think he made the cutest ghost ever.  We had to leave part way through that party to hit the ward trunk-or-treat.  First we had some yummy food.  Tyler and Jesse decorated our trunk.  I took the little boys around to get their candy.  Jesse went around with his buddy and Ty and Ethan handed out our candy.  They turned the back of the car into a shark with a great big tongue.  Part way through it Ty climbed under the blanket (tongue) and started attacking people with it.  It was pretty funny.

 

Ty the zombie…

Somehow this is the only picture I got of Jesse in his costume.  He was a Ranger off of Ranger’s apprentice.  I made him that awesome cape. :)

Monday the boys were going to get all dressed up and do some more trick-or-treating and we were going to go see Grandma Bev and eat at Anns.  We did see Grandma and eat but no one even dressed up.  Tracen had even borrowed another costume from Addi so he wouldn’t have to be the same thing twice :)  But Ty was sick and Tracen was onery and didn’t want to dress up.  So I put Link and Tracen in jammies and away we went to Grandmas.  I had to work Halloween as well but one of the day nurses offered to come in and work for me for a few hours.  I got there about 8:30 though because our partying for the night was pretty pathetic ha ha.  Dinner was super yummy though and it was fun to play with the cousins and sing happy birthday to Ty one more time.  Ann made him German chocolate cupcakes.

Joy school goes to the pumpkin patch

Last week we went out to Paragonah for Joy school to pick pumpkins.  We brought Addi along with us.  The kids wandered around the pumpkin patch, found their perfect pumpkins and then we played around a bit.  Then when we got home they decided they needed to carve  a few.

Link “carved” his too…

Tracen’s creation…

Ty ended up spray painting his

It was all a lot of hard wo rk!

Halloween

Ty is a dork but we love him anyway!

I’m afraid I failed in the cool mom category this Halloween.  I was so excited when I looked at the schedule and I didn’t work this Halloween, but guess what, I worked Friday and Saturday nights.  So I basically slept through the whole thing.  Tyler and Jesse wanted to be characters from the Percy Jackson books.  Easy enough.  We had to find them swords and make T-shirts that said “Camp half blood” on them so it wouldn’t look like they were just dressed up as themselves!  Tracen was a well-loved Buzz Lightyear.  He had fun shooting everyone with his laser.  Jesse wore this costume nearly every day for at least a year when he was Tracen’s age.  And Lincoln was a skeleton with some cute new baby legs to cover up those bare leggy’s.  on a side note, I’ve always thought baby legs probably looked silly on boys, but I was wrong, he looked pretty cute in them! 

The older boys had a karate party early in the day.  Then while I slept the day away they painted pumpkins.  I guess Josh wasn’t into carving them!   But they had fun and painted away.  My friend Pam at work was super super nice and offered to come in for me for a few hours so that I could go play Halloween with the kiddos.  We were supposed to go to the Trunk or Treat at the church but it got really cold.  Lincoln’s had a stuffy/runny nose and I didn’t want to encourage that at all so we went to Cedar instead and the boys and I trick or treated our old street while Josh stayed with Link in the car.  Then we went and visited Grandma Bev, Crystal and Kurt, some cousins and Grandpa and Grandma Neilson.  Then Josh dropped me off at work, which wasn’t too bad.  Far fewer police-escorted intoxicated persons than last year!  So even though I wasn’t so into Halloween this year as I would have liked to have been, it still turned out pretty good! 

And for your view pleasure, more pictures of Tyler being a dork:  :)

Hope you had a great Halloween!

Trick or Treat

You gotta love the expression on his face!

We took a shotgun approach to Halloween this year. Jesse continued his ninja stent from last year, Ty was a baby and it was quite the deal and Tracen was the only one with a new original costume...he was a $3 skeleton from walmart (but he was a dang cute one). Thursday we finally got our pumpkins carved/drawn on. Yes we are on top of things! We went down to the Hallelujah Night Festival put on by the Calvary chapel. It was lots of fun. Then the boys went with Jesse's friend Billy to trunk or treat at one of the churches. Then we ran out to Grandma's house and then I was beat so we went to bed. Josh, lucky guy, got to work the Howl (college dance) until 3 a.m. wohoo.

carving pumpkins:

Scary bunch!

You have to blow this one up and check the drool hanging off his chin...it's priceless.