Halloween

This Halloween Lily wanted to be Rapunzel.  Her favorite princess is still Aurora, but Rapunzel is a close second. I think Rapunzel won the dress-up contest because her dress is purple (Lily's favorite color) and because she has long hair with flowers in it.  Arya wanted to be Cinderella (her favorite princess) though she did go back and forth between Cinderella and Snow White for a good while.  Luke and I decided that Michael should be Pooh because this kid is constantly eating!!!  Never stops!  We thought it'd be really cool if Luke can be tigger and I, Kanga, but... maybe next year... who knows.
We had our ward annual Trunk or Treat on Saturday along with a chili cook off and lots of fun activities.  Seriously the largest ward activity I have ever been to!!!  There were so many kids and so many activities - face painting, "gross touching," fish pond, cake walk, bean bag toss, doughnut eating, lollipop ghosts, and a few more rooms that we didn't even get to go to!  Then we had our Trunk or Treat and man there was a lot of candy!  The girls made a really good haul this year.  They filled their buckets to the top and then some.  But as usual, we let them pick out 10 pieces of candy and then confiscated the rest.  We in general give out the rest of the candy as rewards for being good for the next few months... and Luke and I get to eat them too. :).
Monday night was business as usual, we had 2 kids come trick or treating this year (our next door neighbors) and that was it.  Better than last year's ZERO.  I actually expected this from our experience last year so I bought the good chocolate candy from Costco for our Trunk or Treat on Sat, so now that's what we have left over. :o)

I think I should do Lily's hair like this every Sunday.



I've decided that he's the cutest Pooh Bear in the world.  Personal opinion.

Pumpkin Carving

 I honestly lost faith and didn't believe that we were going to carve pumpkins this year.  Last weekend was the first weekend that Luke and I had time to spend together with the kids this month, and between going to Craven Farm, making cupcakes and corn bread for our ward's Trunk or Treat party, getting the kids in their costumes, etc., I didn't see it happening.  But, to my great delight we did get to carve this year!!
Thanks to Luke, who found these awesome gourds at the farm that inspired us, he came up with a fun idea for a pumpkin.  Since carving a face wasn't too difficult, we decided we would indeed carve pumpkins this year.  I didn't get a pumpkin of my own because there really wasn't any time, but if I had, I would've done suns from "Tangled."  We got mini pumpkins for the girls and they really are fun little things to carve.  Lily wanted ladybugs and Arya wanted a kitty.  I carved Lily's pumpkin and started Arya's but didn't have time so Luke did most of the kitty one.

I really like how the ladybugs turned out.  I had my doubts till we put a candle in it.

Isn't this totally fabulous?  It started out with the nose gourd and then we found the horns.

Kindergarten Halloween Party

Lily's class had a Halloween party yesterday.  Siblings were invited so Arya and Michael also got to attend.  The parent who organized this was amazing!  There were lots of healthy snacks along with sugar cookie decorating, paper sacks decorating, face painting, cake walk, bingo, lollipop ghost making, and paper activities.  The kids had a GREAT time!