Halloween Fun!

I finally have a moment to blog again in what feels like much longer than I'm sure its been. I know I never got a chance to put our Halloween pictures on, so I'm going to do it now. First off, we went to a Halloween dinner that my parents ward had before their trunk-or-treatin' went on. We had some really tasty chili and hot dogs and other yummy stuff and got to see everyones fun costumes.

This is just outside the church where they had their ward dinner party.

After stuffing our faces with food, we went to trunk-or-treating, which I realize now is actually a nice thing when you have little kids. I used to hate the idea of trunk-or-treating because I don't believe I am much of a fan of change when it comes to the traditional stuff. So it makes me happy that we still have the door to door kind of trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Now, we get a little of both.

This is my sister Cami and her boyfriend, JD.

Can you guess what they are?

Hint: Their costumes aren't related in any way.

Here's my Pebbles! Enjoying her handfuls of candy. I don't know how the binky got there!?

And this is my all time favorite Halloween picture.

Playing with the cousins

Elizabeth loved having Brett and Kyler over. They came over a couple of days ago while Angie went to her doctors apt. We had so much fun! Angie has such sweet little boys. I love them!

And Kyler gave me the biggest CHEESE. I love it!

Talk about "Static"

Cousin Weston got a car for his birthday and Elizabeth fell in love with it. She and the car have a special Electric connection ;)

She could spend hours in this car and be perfectly happy!

Lizzie

The other day, Lizzie brought me a shirt for her to put on (she does this on occasion), so I put the shirt on her and then a little later she brings me her pants and then.. her robe and then.. her jacket. So this was her; all ready to go for the day.

A little Halloween Preview

Unfortuantely, these aren't the pictures of all of us in our costumes because I forgot to take my camera for all the fun Halloween picture taking. So, it may be just a little while before I get the pictures from JD's camera. But these are a few pictures of our preparations for Halloween. Originally, we had purchased 3 pumpkins- one for each of us (Happy Pumpkin Family), but one of our pumpkins which we carved to have a tombstone with R.I.P. out of it, decided to grow hair. LOTS of hair and really fast too. So, we just have the two here.

(Left: dragon, monster thing) (Right: Owl)

We didn't get pictures of our pumpkins until after a couple of days, so if you're thinking they look kind of shriveled its because they are. Actually, our poor owl pumpkin was left lit the night we went out for a Halloween party and he got cooked pretty good- Oops! Elizabeth loved carving the pumpkins, she helped with a lot of it as well. She would hold the scooper and the pumpkin saw as we went to work on them and she was especially good at cleaning the insides out of the pumpkins by taking little fingerfuls and eating it. Yum!

So, while I was searching the town for a bone for Lizzie's hair, I was coming up empty handed and so I decided to return to the Marie Callendars lunch I had eaten the day before to retrieve a chicken leg bone from the garbage. I cleaned it of really good and stuck it in the window sill to let dry. It was perfect and quite genius if I do say so myself.

I just have to say that I had so much fun making Lizzie's costume this year and the total cost of the outfit and the accessories only came to about $5. Yay! Rick's costume didn't cost a thing because he used what we already had and my costume cost me $7. Yay again!

Here's Lizzie's bone bow that I made for her and below is a picture of Lizzie wearing her pearly rock bracelet.

Elizabeth is Teething...Again!

I don't think Lizzie has ever not been teething, but she sure does handle it well. She is an incredably tough child. She is surprisingly happy all the time even when she is getting three teeth all at once. That's right, 3 teeth, which will give her like 15 teeth now. She's going to have a full set here before we know it. But on the upside of it all, it sure does make for the cutest smile. "CHEESE"!

I Love her Gap!

Friday

Friday was so much fun! We scheduled to have family pictures with Rachel and it was such a blast. Elizabeth totally adored Rachel and at one point was climbing on her and searching for her belly button. Even Rick mentioned to me how much fun it was and  for the occasion being family pictures, I was very much surprised to hear that from him. But it's true, normally getting family pictures is more stressful than fun but to me, it was like a girl's night but family invited. Elizabeth was so much fun to watch as she ran around playing with this or that. She found a couple of little toy frogs in the grass and was pretty happy about finding them. Rachel took great pictures and I'm so excited to see them when she's all finished. Thanks Rachel! I think you are an amazing photographer and an even better friend. I love you!

Also, after the picture taking was done, we left for Jason's Birthday party which was so much fun. It was a costume party, which Rick failed to mention to me, so neither of us were dressed up. It was a little awkward when Jason answered the door in his awesome pirate costume and we had come as us. Luckily, Jason loaned us a couple of costumes for the night, which meant that I was a Renaissance Lady and Rick was a HOBO GHOST! It really was a lot of fun. we had Cafe Rio and some really yummy cherry limeade sprite drinks, granted they had brains in them but that only made for some good texture when our drinks were through. 

Happy Birthday Jason!