Halloween Fun

Our Halloween festivities began last weekend when we traveled down to Phoenix to spend time with my Uncle Charles, Aunt Dixina, Cousin Brett, his wife Nancy and their adorable kids - two of which are twins. Anyhoo, we kicked off the weekend with the traditional Halloween swim =). Brett and Nancy's home is absolutely gorgeous and we had such a nice time. The pool was a bit cold (it was only 85 that day) so the two sets of twins played and played. Then we headed off to their wards trunk-or-treat. It was SO much fun. They had a potluck dinner, a bounce house, cake walk, bean bag toss, dunk booth and a spook alley in the church foyer (I know, never heard of that one before). The twins and Livvy had so much fun - they got in some good trunk-or-treat practice for tonight.





Last night we were invited to a Halloween Party at our friends the Heaton's. When Tina called to tell me about the party she said that the kids could dress up and if Jer and I wanted to we could - she told me that her and Corey (the hubby) would have costumes. So last night, at the last minute I decided to put on my Applebee's uniform for my costume. I walked into the party and was the ONLY adult dressed up - and everyone there didn't even think it was a costume, they thought I just got off of work. Jeremy thought that was pretty funny. A few of the kids didn't finish their dinners and just left their plates out - Livvy ate 2 1/2 hot dogs from the other kids plates, oh well. They had some games for the kids - one of them was a pinata, which was a bit "hit" (ha! ha!) And some of these fell out:





Tonight was our ward trunk-or-treat. Here is a picture of the fam (as you can see I opted out of wearing my "costume" tonight):

We had such a good time - there were a bunch of people and loads of candy. I really loved the twins costumes this year - Gracie is actually wearing MY witches costume from when I was 8 or 9 (it has been altered, she is tall, but not that tall), and my mom graciously made Whitney's costume. We bought them some plain hats and decorated them:



We also had fun carving pumpkins - which didn't end up getting done until yesterday afternoon. The girls chose the patterns and mommy & daddy did the carving - but they did help scoop out the guts.


We went trick-or-treating down our street when we got home and hit the 5 houses that actually had on their porch lights - I forgot I was wearing this on my head until we got home:

Happy Halloween!