Halloween!

We LOVE Halloween around here and get super excited thinking about costumes for the kids a couple of months in advance.  This year when I asked Ellie she immediately said she wanted to be Ariel, which was perfect since we already have an Ariel costume!  She never changed her mind whenever anyone would ask it was always Ariel.  We had our Ward Halloween party with games and chili cook off.  It was great and yummy!  Ellie was Ariel and Gavin was the cutest little puppy ever.  He LOVES dogs right now and gets so excited whenever he sees one.  He even kept his hood on a lot of the time!  We had a great time and got our pictures taken at the photo booth.

On Halloween Jenny and I took the kids to Village Inn for breakfast

 and then to get a free cupcake from Sweet Tooth Fairy. 

We had a great time and the kids got free pumpkin pancakes for dressing up.  So funny, that morning when I went to get Ellie's costume, she decided she wanted to be Rapunzel!  She was so set on Ariel the entire time and then said she had already been Ariel and needed to be a different princess.  So, she was Rapunzel.
Patrick's work is huge on Halloween and so later that day we headed up to his work to go trick or treating.  It is always pretty fun to see the whole place decked out and have everyone meet the family.  Before we left, Ellie decided to be.....Cinderella!  Such a funny little girl.  We got her all dressed up for trick or treating and she looked beautiful.

After we got home, we grabbed some dinner and headed out to trick or treat around our neighborhood.

We made sure to take the wagon so Gavin didn't have to walk the entire way, he walked a lot of it though.

Tonight Gavin didn't want his hood on at all, so people kept thinking he was a cow:(  But he was still super cute.  We had a great time taking the kids around and they LOVED getting so much candy.
 Beautiful Princess Cinder"Ellie"

Checking out all the loot!

 Karate Kick!

October Happenings

It snowed enough to really see on October 4th.  We had to bring a bit in for the kids to see and feel.  This was Gavin's first real experience with snow this year and he had to taste it!

I saw these awesome spiders online and Ellie and I had tons of fun making them.  They turned out pretty cute and we stuck them in spiderwebs inside and on the front porch.  October 7, 2013

 We headed to Jakers Jack o Lanterns in Springville.  They do it every year and I haven't ever heard about it, but it's completely free and has lots of fun stuff for kids.  I had to dress the kids up in there Halloween clothes.  October 12, 2013

Playing in the corn box.  Kids seriously love these!  They go crazy with the corn and it really is much cleaner afterwards than a sandbox!

Patrick buried Ellie.  She thought it was so funny!

Hayride.  Gavin thought the tractor was so cool.

Picking out pumpkins

So many to choose from

They also had a small petting zoo

And a cool slide.  Ellie loved this and could have stayed longer.  

I went down once with Gavin and we were done:)

Gavin loved the animals there, especially the horses.  He couldn't get enough of them and kept making horse noises.  It was a fun place and I love that it was free!

We made our annual trip to Gardner Village to see the Witches!  October 23, 2013  Gavin HATED the witches

But Ellie really got into them this year and would run up to find more

We visited the petting zoo here and both kids loved it!  I had to hand onto Gavin because he wanted to hug everything.

He even did a pony ride and liked it!  He only cried a bit at the very end!

Ellie wanted to ride of the huge horse and she did awesome all by herself!  She loves horses and pony's

I really like this pumpkin and want to make one...when I can find a huge log and have someone cut it for me:)  And of course, Gavin is so stinkin' cute sitting on it!

We found Ellie sleeping during a prayer...or at least that's what it looks like.  She is such a funny sleeper.  October  25, 2013

My parents don't have huge trees in there yard, but they definitely get a lot of leaves.  Grandpa and Ellie went out and shoveled the leaves into a pile and had a great time jumping in them.  October 28, 2013

 Grandpa burying Ellie in the leaves.  She thinks its hilarious to be buried in them!

 Gavin really liked to be in the leaves and stomp through them.  He is so happy!

 I love that toothy grin

  Ellie and Gavin helped me dig out the pumpkins for our annual dinner in a pumpkin.  October 29, 2013

We had our annual Halloween dinner party this year(we missed last year) and really had a great time.  We invited some new friends over and it was fun to get to know everyone more and eat yummy, Halloweeny food.  I didn't take any pictures, but we had Nicco and Nicole Beccerra, Ben and Jenny Wilson, Jeff and Alycia Rickords and Chris and Karen Read over. Here is some of our yummy food! October 30, 2013

The Reads brought cornbread

 Wilsons made a yummy jack o lantern vegi tray

And Rickords made a spiderweb bean dip

The Beccerra's made a worm punch that was also yummy, but I forgot to get a picture of it!  It was nice to have friends over and have fun food!

We've had a great month and really like this time of year for all of the traditions of different holidays!

Gavin-14 Months

Gavin is now 14 months and getting to be quite the little handful.  Here are some things he is doing right now.

• Gavin likes to have us sing songs or do actions with him.  He started doing patty cake actions with us and it is so cute!  October 10
• He will move all over in the night and often ends up with his bum so high in the air.  It is so cute and funny! October 16

• Gavin has the most contagious smile and I love that he uses it so often!  He is so funny and will get laughing many times during the day.  October 24

• We love this little man and have so much fun together as a family!