October seems to be in full throttle every year, but this particular year was wild! We started off with a visit from Connie and her kids. We always like to have an excuse to go to White Sands so off we went on one beautiful evening. The little ones were so photogenic, I just had to take their pictures.
How cute is she!
Here's Beth and her new baby bump. :)
Racing to the top!
I decided last year that I would find people who would want to throw a large Halloween Party/Trunk or Treat at our church since we've had a few low turn outs for trunk or treat. I was able to talk 5 Wards into participating and helping with some of the booths, but I was so nervous about whether everything was going to follow through as planned. So, among all of that planning and creating the decorations, I had costumes to make, a recipe blog that I was trying to get launched on Nov. 1st, a Gun Show Booth to run for my Shelf Reliance business, a Masterminds presentation and hauling kids to all of their activities. It was amazing that it all got done. The Halloween Party was a huge success! Close to 350 people were there and our Church parking lot was PACKED with Trunk or Treaters.
Cameron was Captain Jack Sparrow! I didn't have time to do his costume exactly the way I wanted it, but I think he pulled it off well.
Claire was a cute MUMMY! She stayed close to the YUMMY cupcake walk booth most of the night. :)
Abe & Cody plus their kids were all Pirates. I loved how Abe shaved his head for his costume!!
One of my good friends showed up with this shower costume and I just had to wash my hair!
Here's Bryce as Napolian Dynomite. He's so funny, I couldn't look at him and not laugh.
Little Bella went as Jessie from Toy Story. She was so proud of this costume!! I seriously made her costume at 4pm and I had to get to the Event by 5:45pm! We spray painted a black hat, made the cuffs from a styrofoam paper with little sequins and just spray painted her hair. (Jesse did that part).
I was so proud of my "Vintage Moon" that I painted on an old bed sheet. It's now in the girls room and we're going to put a cow jumping over it. ha ha! It makes me happy to look at it. The booths we had that night were pumpkin bowling, cupcake walk, bean bag toss, pin a pumpkin, doughnut on a string, Straw blowing game, face painting, cookie decorating, walk the plank on our pirate ship on stage, pumpkin decorating contest, popcorn and meet a princess (we had 4 girls dressed up like Disney Princesses and they were AMAZING!) I'm tempted to hire them for my girls birthday parties. :) Then we ended the night with Trunk or Treating outside.
So, after the Halloween party at Church a lot of the kids costumes were either missing or falling a part. Bryce had asked me in August to buy him an angry bird costume and the thought of buying him a costume just makes me sad since I've created this tradition of making them. Well, I thought it would be fun is they all were angry birds and on Halloween day I was sewing like a mad woman trying to get them done. I've concluded that I'm crazy! What kind of person does this sort of thing? I must suffer from lack of knowing a good sense of time and my own abilities! They turned out pretty cute and the cool thing is that my kids can use these costumes as pillows. haha!
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It looks like the stake Halloween Festival was a huge success. You outdid yourself. We loved your kids costumes. They looked GREAT! Looking forward to a fun Christmas with you guys- get ready to party!
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