halloween and such

Punkin pickin'

We met Kevin's sister and her family at a small pumpkin patch in South Jordan.

The kids had a great time running around in the dirt and corn fields,

most of them weren't even interested in the pumpkins. 

This guy found his right off. Not hard to please him.

Little Miss had to sit on every pumpkin before deciding it wasn't the one.

Too heavy

Looks like that was the trick, If I can sit on it it's too big. 

Can't resist this cutie with her red boots. 

And she would have played in this truck ALL DAY

He wasn't cooperating for picts so he didn't get as many. Not that he would care.

OH! Got one.... wish I could remember what I had to bribe 

him with to get this picture. 

Hope you liked all the vintage editing.... 

I couldn't help myself.

 On to Halloween

And a frightening one it was....

Here we have our ghetto fabulous feral cat................................................

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And the Beautiful Belle. Don't even get me started with the drama of 

this dress. I may never sew again. And I can't tell you how grateful 

I am that she wore it and she liked it! She has been haunting me for 

weeks that she wants to be Optimus Prime, Batman, Tinker Bell, 

and once she learned what her DAD chose to be..... she wanted to be a cat too.

And this one.... knew what he wanted to be the whole time but his costume

bothered him with all the pieces and he hardly wore it. 

Next year we'll just do teeth.

Again with the pictures.... hates them :)

Kitty won 3rd place in the costume contest at his work.

I was pretty proud!

We had a long day. Started out HALF WAY to Zack's school. Had to walk the rest

of the way because I didn't realize how many people would be there. Saw the parade.

Didn't see Zack due to a beautiful parent helper who might have been a very good

 friend of mine that stood in his way. 

Next we went to trick or treat at the care center next to our neighborhood.

The residents loved seeing the kids and we got a HAUL of candy. 

Lucky for me I gave it all away again within the hour to someone 

that didn't buy candy yet. SCORE!

Later we visited Kevin at his work and got another 2 buckets full there. 

Then we hurried up to Kevin's sisters house for a yummy dinner and 

left her with another bucket of our candy. SCORE AGAIN!

Kevin and his sister, the awesome Mary Poppins.

There's a little pose...

All the cute cousins

Zack wanted to trick or treat in our neighborhood so we raced home. 

Only it wasn't a race, everyone else in Utah was trying to get home too. 

It took us about an hour. I think we finally got out into the neighborhood 

at 7:00. The kids were excited. It wasn't too cold. Kevin was all 

gussied up and we hit the hood. Ruby was in heaven. She was so

funny to watch. Running all the way, she ran down the sidewalk

singing about the candy she got and ran to the next house. She would 

report at each house what she got, usually followed by a "yeah that

was nice of her/him huh mommy". Zack had a good time but for some 

reason he didn't seem like he was having as good a time as Ruby. 

On the way home he rode in the stroller and she RAN all the way home. 

Kevin could hardly keep up with her. It makes me giggle thinking about

how funny and excited she was about the whole thing. 

There's a smile!

She was especially drawn to suckers, every house that had a choice

she would pick a sucker. Probably because she didn't know which ones

were chocolate. (both my kids are chocolate freaks, runs pretty hard on

both sides of the family)

Happy Halloween! 

It was a fun one....

Now to get rid of the candy.