Halloooooooween

We had another fun and DRY Halloween this year!

Kenny of course chose to be yet another Star Wars character...a Jedi. Carley...a dalmatian dog. Auriel to be exact who is a fire fighter dog here. She even has the picture she was given by the firefighters that visited her school. And Lauren chose to be Silvermist, a fairy from the Tinker Bell movie. She insisted on the wig!

Can I tell you how happy I was NOT to be in charge of the Ward Halloween Party!!! They did an awesome job without me, no surprise. I loved my stress free Halloween.

On to pumpkin carving. We chose not to do the puking pumpkin this year. Kenny chose to do the "iron man" looking face, Lauren designed the face for her lil pumpkin and I helped her draw it on, and I did the "man looking out the window" pumpkin at a Laurel activity. It actually won a prize for the scariest pumpkin at the ward party. Woo hoo!

Mark stepped on a slug on the way in from lighting our pumpkins which led to a search for some others. We found this one on the porch and Mark being Mark just had to burn the slug. He held the flame over all of the slug for quite awhile watching it try to inch in to get away from the flame. The slug kept on moving and wasn't there in the morning. I don't know how it survived...or at least survived long enough to escape our porch.

On Saturday, we joined Michael and Bekah at their ward Halloween party. It was our first time seeing our newest niece, Eden. Aevyn was the cutest lion ever and Bryn was a very wise owl. So wise she kept escaping my camera. Or I should say I couldn't catch any with her sweet face in it.

I love this picture of Aevy smiling at the mess she made.

Kenny checking out Eden. He was making her smile, too bad I couldn't catch it!

My proof that I got to see Eden at least once before they move away next week. I was holding her to get her to hold off on eating. What can I say, I've got the magic touch...she just crashed.

Lauren feeling brains at the Spook Alley.

It wasn't so scary for the big kids as they could see over the walls and such.

Well, I take that back. Here is Carley when she spotted a strange man sitting in the corner. She immediately crouched down and wouldn't go any further. She never made it through.

This was by far the scariest thing we saw all night. ;-)

After the party we came home so we could "Trick or Treat" in our own neighborhood. We only made it down two streets before they wanted to quit. We're going to have to work on our endurance. :-) I think their favorite part of the night was handing out candy to their neighborhood friends and getting to see all their costumes. Seriously, they were soooooo excited about doing this!

Hope you all had a very happy Halloween, we sure did!