Let the festivities begin

Oh Halloween how I love you and all the traditions you bring... But also how I despise you from all the candy that you bring and that I have to hide from myself. I mean my children!! This year we started gearing up for Halloween early Cole has a insane obsession/love for dinosaurs and in September starting declaring he NEEDED to be a dinosaur, Jett informed us he wanted to be a zombie, and Owen wanted to be... Donald Duck??
Well towards the end of September when Walmart started bringing out their Halloween costumes and decorations, and anytime we went there for anything we had to walk threw those isles Cole found his Halloween costume a ride on dinosaur. He HAD to have it! And.. honestly it was cute and not too pricey so he got it and wore it everyday and named him Tum-tum.

 





 

 Well Jett and Owen's costumes were going to be easy this year so we just waited to worry about theirs since we would only need makeup really. Well fast forward to the day before the boys school Halloween carnival when Heather (my sister in-law) let me know Traegan (her son/Owen's best friend) has decided to be Slimer from Ghostbusters. Owen immediately decided he needed to be Stay Puffed Marshmallow man, it was pure panic. We couldn't let our little buddy down. so I hurried and helped them with their home work and as soon as Jason walked in the door informed him we had to run to the nearest Halloween store which is a good half hour away to find Owen his costume! Well guess what??? They sure do not make that costume for little people, only adults but Owen did find a Ghostbuster costume and was pretty dang pleased with himself!

Jettsen decided well he was there that he wanted to go a different direction with his costume too.... surprise, surprise, he wandered around until he found himself the perfect costume. A zombie slayer. His little eyes lit up and he was trying to stay cool, but man was it hard when he was so darn excited!

We had done it! We got everyone a costume and best of all, everyone was so excited! The next day we met up with Josh and Heather to head to the boys Halloween carnival at their school. It was cute and they had a lot of games set up as well as dinner. But I think the kids had more fun just hanging out with their cousins in their costumes.

The last minute switch DID pay off!

 A couple of days after that was the ward Halloween party at the church, which was a lot like the school one and the kids were happy to hang out with their cousins once again. (josh and Heather live 3 blocks from us.)

Lastly for our events leading to the main event Jason took the day off of work and we decided to take the boys to Logan for the Pumpkin Walk, we were so excited, we do it every year. we hopped in the car drove all the way there to find out that most all of it was taken down. they had ended it the day before. We weren't going to let that stop us... We walked through the few that were still there!

Cute little pumpkin flowers

This is so Owen! such a silly boy

My own 3 Amigos!

After heading home from a little disappointment by all we decided to carve our pumpkins the boys have been looking forward to this for a week! They were so excited went out and grabbed the pumpkin that they had picked out earlier sat at the table and had dad cut off the tops! Jett Dug right in there pulling out all the guts!!



 



Owen was next, he dug right in there too he kept saying how he loved how squishy and cold it was, I think secretly he just liked getting dirty with out being told to go clean up!

And then there was Cole.... Poor, poor Cole..

Need I say more!!!

After the goo was out the faces were drawn and Carved. Everyone had the Jack-o-lanterns and hands cleaned, there were smiles all around and they were all pretty happy with the way their pumpkins turned out!

 I love these kids and love making fun memories with them! We can't wait for the real fun to begin tomorrow!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVE!