Halloween 2011

Halloween has ALWAYS been my favorite holiday!  Jay thinks I am weird, he says "My favorite holiday is the devil worshiper holiday".   What other day can you dress up and be somebody else?  Plus, it's when I have an excuse to listen to "Thriller"!  This year was awesome!  No wearing coats, hats and gloves, the best part NO SNOW!  It was 78 degrees at 8:00 pm!

My day started out getting Brighton dressed up for his Halloween party at preschool.  He was so stinkin' excited to be "Batman that lights up"!

Next was on to the Halloween parade at Autumn's school.

 Autumn and her BFF Camille is behind her.

After that I went to Autumn's class to help out with her Halloween party.

Autumn and her teacher Mrs. Trujillio.

Our family all dressed up for the Annual Neighborhood Halloween Party (our first of course).  We ate hot dogs and chili.  I was impressed at how many people showed up, not to mention how many adults dressed up.  A great place to meet all our neighbors!

Brighton as "Batman that lights up".

Autumn as "Butterfly Princess".

Aspen as "The devil".  She is now too cool to be any fluffy princesses now! :(  All she wanted to be was a devil, witch or vampire.  Aspen is too old to dress up for school anymore too.  But her teacher ordered pizza and they went to a park for the afternoon.

 Brighton with his best buddy in our ward, Bryce.  Don't they look alike?  Not to mention I have never met any kid as hyperactive as Brighton until Bryce!  Although Brighton is still louder!

The butterflies, Autumn and Aggie.  Believe it or not Aggie is Brighton's age.  Autumn is just our little midget!

What a great night!  Brighton now calls me "The Princess Super Hero".  The kids are all hopped up on candy now!  We passed out around candy to 200-225 trick or treaters.  I love our new neighborhood!  Everyone is soooo nice!

Halloween 2009

We had a great Halloween this year!  Although it was really busy with Jay and I trying to get ready for the Super Saturday.  This is the back of our van for our ward Trunk or Treat.  We had a fog machine going that could take out a small army.  Even though we have a small ward the kids had a blast.  Since there weren't very many cars all the kids went to each car probably 4 or 5 times each. 

Autumn and her friend Ava W. at their class Halloween party.

Usually Jay goes way out when we carve pumpkins but since we were so busy this year Jay let the kids do whatever they wanted.  I have to say it was much more relaxed and took way less time!

Here is Aspen playing with the insides of the pumpkin.  She loves to get messy!

Jay helping Brighton, I am so glad Jay likes to do this.  I just think it is messy and would rather buy the plastic ones you could use year after year!  Brighton was ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with pumpkins this year!!!!  Everywhere we would see a pumpkin he get so excited, all we heard (and still hear) is punkins, spooky punkins!

We finally got Autumn to touch the inside of a pumpkin, which is the first year ever.  She did use a spoon and freaked out when any touched her.

The finished product

Aspen was Giselle from the movie Enchanted. When the movie came out she wanted this dress sooo bad. One day in June I found it at the Disney store for $10 and I had a 20% off coupon, I was so excited!

Brighton was a penguin, I found this at the Disney store for $5 and yes I used my 20% off coupon on this too! He was so stinkin cute! We would go up to the door and he would say trick, treat. They would give him a treat and he would stand there and say it again so they would feel bad for him and give him another one. He knew how to work the system. Brighton loved Halloween. Just a couple of days ago he found an Easter basket and insisted on carrying it around with him everywhere, saying trick, treat. Jay was so embarrassed because it was a pink, my little pony basket. He also loved the glow sticks that we had on his wrists; he had to sleep with them for 3 nights before I threw them away. Then he found one of the girls "sticks" and had to sleep with that one for a couple of nights.

Autumn was an Angel again this year.  This is her friend Aspen.

We went over to our friend’s house, the Lichtenbergs for dinner and then out Trick-or-Treating. We had so much fun with them. They have girls our girl’s age. Their son Bryson loves to entertain Brighton. Their oldest daughter baby-sits our kids (best babysitter ever, we wish we could afford to have her come all the time).

Bryson, Aspen, Avery, Autumn, Aspen and Brighton getting ready to go out Trick-or-Treating.

It was so very cold on Halloween.  We put the kids in the back of the Lichtenbergs van.  They would go to a couple of houses and then jump in the van and get warm for a few minutes before going to a few more houses.  Halloween in Michigan is just plain COLD!

Aspen and her friend Avery, Autumn and her friend Aspen.  Brighton didn't want to stand by all the girls, lets hope it stays this way.

A Week in Halloween

Our last week was filled with activities for Halloween! First of all on Sunday we went for a drive to look at the beautiful leaves changing colors.It was my turn to teach Joy School this week so Monday started out teaching the kids Halloween songs to sing for our Halloween program. Then for Family Home Evening we tye dyed the shirts the kids are wearing in this picture and drew faces on them.Tuesday was filled with preparation for the Halloween Party. On Wednesday we had our Halloween Party and the kids did an amazing job! They remembered all the words and sang loudly. We had sugar cookies pumpkin rice crispie treats and green slime to drink. I took pictures of the kids but all of them were fuzzy but this one of Autumn.

Wednesday afternoon it became very quite (which is not normal with Brighton around) so of course I thought he was doing something he shouldn't be doing and started searching the house thinking I would find a disaster. I found him just sitting on the couch watching the Wonder Pets. I just knew he had to be getting sick. I felt his forehead and sure enough he was flaming hot. This is the 3rd time in the last 6 weeks he has been sick. I just can't seem to wipe his nose fast enough. Autumn has even started calling him booger boy.

We were going to carve pumpkins Tuesday night but Jay has been on call almost every day for the last two weeks and was paged to come in and see a patient in the E.R. So we decided to carve them on Wednesday night but Jay was paged again to see another patient. We may seem like awful parents but we checked Aspen out of school early so we could carve pumpkins before the ward trunk-or-treat. Right before we were to leave to go to the church for trunk-or-treat Jay was AGAIN paged to see another patient. We were late but the kids still received a ton of candy!

Autumn had her hair in rollers in preparation for the trunk-or-treat.

Yes it was 1:00 in the afternoon and Brighton was still in his pajamas. The kid didn't feel well and I knew we were going to be carving pumpkins and he would get very dirty!

Hey, at least Jay didn't get paged while we were carving pumpkins.

Friday night we had our friends Micah and Sara over for dinner before heading out to go trick or treating. What do you know Jay was PAGED AGAIN a half an hour before they were to come over. Luckily Micah got tied up at the hospital and was late too!

This is our scary Witch Aspen.

Our Snow Fairy Autumn.Our cute little Pirate Brighton.

Yesterday Jay was paged three different times to go into the hospital and once in the middle of the night too. The guy that he had to go see in the middle of the night was in his 40's and broke two of his toes. When Jay asked him how he broke them he was embarrassed. He said that one of his friends is a big Obama supporter so him and his wife got a ton of McCain signs and were putting them all over his front lawn and it happened when he jumped out of his truck. Just goes to show you your only as old as you act!