School Parade

Gotta love the annual school parade. It was weird not to have T there.

I loved J's witch get-up this year. She was so excited about her costume and I thought she looked super cute!

Thing 1, Thing 2, and Sally

Love it!

Trunk or Treat

Our ward trunk or treat was a lot of fun.

Ange, Reggie, Em, Tal, Dani, Greg, and Tal came too!

My pirate friend April and I!

Dani looked so cute and so did the little zebra!

Indie and my sexy 70s hubby!

Thing 2

Watch out for the witch!

T wanted to be something scary.

I think he is the "Scream" guy.

S has such an imagination.

He came up with his own costume and was so excited about it.

He called himself Mr. Gutman. I love it!!

Em and Tal

Ange and Reg

Next year we'll have to match our years.

I was from the 80s and R was from the 70s.

R's costume was actually named disco sleezeball. Hilarious!

A few of us.

Mom and Dad

Too cute for words!!!!!

Pumpkin Carving

We had fun carving pumpkins!

T was excited to have such a huge pumpkin this year!

J wanted a cute little one.

M is always content with whatever.

S went for a scary look.

A Fun Halloween Dinner

We had a lot of Halloween celebrations this year.

One of them included a Halloween themed dinner on Sunday. Super fun!!

"Graveyard Surprise"

(oreo cookie, cream cheese, jello dessert)

"Witches Brew"

(pineapple and orange sherbet with lemon lime soda)

"Mummy Pillows"

(rolls)

"Pumpkin Brains with Vampire Eyeballs"

(pumpkin stew with olives)

"Monster Eyes"

(deviled eggs)

"Graveyard Greens with a Spidey Surprise"

(green salad with spider rings and worms, served with "slime" aka ranch dressing)

Hunger Games, Finished

I finally finished this series!

Loved it!

The third one was a little bit harder for me to get through, but I ended up really enjoying it, kind of a sad story. I felt bad for Katniss, Peeta, and Gale. Well, actually I felt bad for everyone but especially those three. Overall a great read!

Annual Witches Weekend

I know, I know I'm a little late on my October posts. But, how can I not post all the fun times we had?! We started off our annual witches weekend by waking my MIL up with silly string. We celebrated her 60th birthday along with all of our "witchy" activities. We had something fun for her every 60 minutes throughout the day. It was a lot of fun surprising her with flowers, balloons, gifts, and memories. Happy Birthday!

We had a big group of witches! Grandma Ball, my MIL Pam, Aunt Nancy, SIL'S Ari, Brenda, Kristy, and Amanda; cousins Stephanie, Michelle, Roxanna, and Becca; and myself!

We always wear fun socks or tights when we dress up!!

I made "witches wands" as my treat. Some of the other treats were snickers fudge in cute witch cups, a giant witch hat rice krispy treat, candy, halloween trail mix (it had a really cute name but I can't remember what it was). We never have a lack of yummy treats when we get together!

Some of the vinyl crafting I did!

We take turns providing meals. This one was super cute. They decorated the table, had fun menus, cute labels on the water bottles. It was such a cute idea!

Waiting for lunch.

We spent all day crafting away. We made rings, necklaces, wooden pumpkins, mason jar halloween lanterns (like the ones I made a little bit ago), and did vinyl lettering crafts. So much fun!!! I wish I had gotten a picture of all the cute, fun stuff we did.

Not Because I'm Not Thankful

It's been a whole week since I've posted. It's not because I have nothing to be thankful for, but it's because I've been so sick. Last Sunday I started getting sick. By that night I had a bad fever, chills, and soar throat. Pretty sure I had strep. Then, Thursday I started losing my voice. What a mess I was. But, I'm finally almost back to "normal", if there is a normal. So, today I'm thankful for:

~medicine
~a brother who can call in meds for me
~a warm bed
~friends who brought me fudge and other yummy treats
~a friendly phone call
~kids who let their mom recover
~dad who helps me clean the studio
~prayers
~fall decorations
~warm soup
~homemade bread

I'm Thankful, Day 5

Today I'm Thankful for:

~Hubby's day off!!

~laughter

~game night with friends

~computers

~poly chicken

~beautiful weather

~pumpkin spice scent

Fun With FHE

My Mom has had the kids help her put on some very fun Family Home Evenings. S was in charge this week. He did a great job reading his lessons and having everyone do their parts. He was so excited to be in charge. I definitely need to let my kids help out with FHE more often.

We talked about putting on the "Whole armour of God".

Everyone got a drawing and a quote and had to make their "armour" out of foil. It was a blast!

Papa was the first to try everything on! He couldn't stop laughing.

Then everyone else needed a turn.

T specifically asked for the chair so he could get in his stance. Crazy boy!

Warrior girl!

Our cute lesson giver. For dessert we had yummy banana bars with cream cheese frosting.

Great FHE, yummy food, family, and lots of love!

Last week J was in charge of treats, and M gave the lesson. J made these cute "spider" treats.

Our lesson was about how Satan is like a spider and he tries to trap us in his sticky web. We named things that Satan tries to tempt us with and stuck them in our web to remind us to stand up for what we believe and what we know is right. M did a great job!

Then we played the spider game. J was the spider and we were the flies flying around her. If she caught us we were stuck in her web. Super cute! I love FHE and am so glad to have kids who enjoy it also. Ange, Em, Tal, and Reg joined our fun evening.

I'm Thankful, Day 4

How beautiful is this? Wouldn't you just love to live here?!

Today, I'm Thankful for:

~good food

~my home to keep me warm

~hugs and kisses from the kids before they walk out the door

~a clean house