Halloween!

First, I'll start with a couple of days ago.  I posted this on FB on 10/29:

Makenna is playing with the baby dolls, giving them kisses and saying things like, "I'm wrapping you up" and "Be nice to each other" and "Do you need a scooch? Like that?" (then she moves them around a little) and "The babies are so cute. They're holding hands." 

 

That girl cracks me up! 

That night, we went to Jump On It, then went and ate at Chubby's (a restaurant owned by a couple of guys who grew up in our stake in Louisiana--I dated their older brother, ha ha!).  We had so much fun.  The girls loved being able to go there with Jared.  When we went with Kiki earlier this month, Makenna kept saying she want to bring Daddy there.

 

 

 

10/30--Jared had to leave on a very last-minute trip yesterday so he missed Halloween with us. He found out he had to leave and left maybe two hours later!  :(

10/31--Grandma, Aunt Laura, Daisy, and Cody came over to trick-or-treat with us.  The twins had so much fun with their cousins. They didn't even eat any candy tonight because they were so wound up from playing with their cousins. Our neighborhood is AWESOME, btw.  Our neighbor/my visiting teacher made doughnuts for all the kids again.  SO yummy!

 

 

 

 

They were doing really well going up to the doors until this guy answered his door, ha ha! Then, they were scared of pretty much everything after that. Makenna was petrified of our RS president's house (I thought it was awesome, though!) and they were both terrified of the houses with fog machines, ha ha.

After trick-or-treating, we went home and enjoyed some home made chili and corn muffins. Avery all of sudden started shoving a corn muffin in her mouth and said, "Cookie Monster!!!" It was so funny!

 

 

Such a fun night but we sure missed Daddy!!!

Pumpkin Patch, Swimming, Painting Pumpkins, Halloween Party, Birthday Party!!!

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It was a fun-filled week, so there are a ton of photos!!

10/22--I was supposed to play Bunco on Tuesday night but we didn't have enough players, so it was cancelled. :( So we ended up having a family night, instead.  :)  As soon as the girls woke up from their nap, we went to Evans Family Farm, which is really close to us, and had a great time.

We had so much fun at the pumpkin patch this evening. So many fun things to do there--hay ride, picking pumpkins, farm zoo, barrel train, corn maze, hay maze, corn pit, hay pit, straw pyramid with tunnels and a slide, etc. So fun! I took 200 pictures, ha ha!

On the hayride

Pumpkin patch

Barrel train

Farm zoo

Family photo op

Corn stalk maze

Fall cuties!!

Straw maze

Avery ready to get out of the straw maze, ha ha!

Corn pit

Straw pit

Tunnel through the straw pyramid

Slide down the straw pyramid

Jared and Avery on top of the straw pyramid

Playing by the straw pyramid

 10/23--So tired/relaxed from swimming and eating out with the family then getting my weekly massage. Too late far a nap, though--I'd never go to sleep tonight. We're gonna paint pumpkins when the girls wake up from their nap. 

We took the girls to the rec. center to swim.

 

 

 We painted pumpkins that evening:

 

 

They get so serious when they're doing craft/art projects. :)

 

A treat after the hard work of painting

  

I painted the pumpkin in the middle (Jared saw it at the pumpkin patch and said it would be perfect for a skull, and it was!); Jared painted the other two pumpkins.

The girls' pumpkins

 

10/25---The girls had fun (for the most part) tonight at our town Halloween party. They were scared of some the decorations and some of the the the costumes, like Beetle Juice and the Harley Davidson mascot--I think it was an ape or something. Makenna was even too scared to take pictures with Miss Lehi, ha ha. But they enjoyed trick or treating and playing some of the games! 

Trick-or-Treating

Balloon bracelets (ladybug and frog)

"Fishing" for prizes

The Chik-fil-A cow

Shooting some hoops

 

Dancing (there was a DJ)

Playing some games

 

Afraid of Miss Lehi, ha ha!

REALLY afraid of the Harley Davidson mascot!!

10/26--We went to my nephew's 5th birthday party, a Plants vs. Zombies party.  It's a game that he plays on the iPad.  It was such a cute, fun party.  Kiki did a great job.

Bowling for zombies

Pin the eye on the zombie

Eyeball pinata

 

"Open for me, Mommy?"

The birthday boy with his loot--I can't believe he's already 5!

Awesome zombie cake

YUM!

The girls did really well in sacrament meeting today.  I got to go to Relief Society today during the second half of nursery; they had the Young Women take over all of the Primary/nursery classes so all the women could attend RS.  It was awesome until one of the YW brought Makenna to me about halfway through because she was crying too much.  She was really good and sat really quietly so I could stay and listen to the lesson, though.  Avery stayed in nursery until the end of church; I thought she would be the one they would have to take to me!  I'm really afraid of what they're gonna do when they move up to Sunbeams in January and I won't be their teacher anymore!  Expect the worst and hope for the best, right?

 I'm hoping to get some really good photos of them in their costumes on Halloween night.  My SIL and her family and my MIL are coming that night, so it's gonna be fun and we're looking forward to it!