Hearts and Fingers and Ears, OH MY!!!

The kids had a FRIGHTFULLY good time at Tammy's
Halloween Party yesterday!

These were the appetizers to snack on while all the guests arrived.....

...pumping heart, bloody fingers or a ripped off ear, anyone?
Mmmm, Tasty!

How about eating a Mummy face instead? Yes please!

These lil' mummy's turned out SO cute! Everyone got to make their own using an old mummy head {1/2 bagel}, mummy blood {pizza sauce}, mummy wrapping {strings of string cheese} and mummy eyes {olive halves}. To drink, Tammy made
a ghoulish-green punch in her witch cauldron.

What a fun Mummy-licious dinner!

The kids also went on a spook-tacular treasure hunt where they found a box of sugar cookies waiting for them to decorate and they also played the 'guess-how-many-candies-are-in-the-jar' game. Avery guessed 50, Quinney guessed 3, and the total was 200+ .....no need to state the obvious here,
but, {sigh} they didn't win. :)

My poor lil' Pirate was having a rough time, he wasn't feeling so well. Even though he's crying and chasing after me in this blurry picture, it's the only one I got of him in full costume.
Still the cutest sad lil' Pirate I've ever seen!

Thanks Tammy for a GReAt PaRtY!
The kids had a pumpkin-smashing good time! :)

Trunk-or-Treat ~ Smell-my-Feet

Thursday night was our Ward Halloween Party and Trunk-or-Treat. The Young Men and Women were in charge this year, and man oh man, talk about stressful! Whew! I'm so glad we had enough soup and bread sticks to feed everyone! :)

The Young Men did the donut on a string game for the kids and the Young Women did the cake walk and a Haunted Spook Alley where you could feel skin, eyeballs, guts, ears, a brain and a hand inside of hallowed out pumpkins. GROSS! I even knew what each thing was and it still sicked me out! ha ha!

After dinner and games we all headed outside for the
much anticipated

Trunk-or-Treat!

In case you didn't know, I'll let you in on a little secret...
The Tooth Fairy and Buzz Lightyear are the best of friends!
They go flying together ALL the time! :)

And my little Pirate, well, let's just say he scored a lot of loot
merely because he is the cutest Pirate EVER!!

"TRICK OR TREAT!" "What did I get?!"

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

{And yes, Daddy was there,
he was just handing out 46 lbs. of candy at the van!} :)

Did you know that Witches go to school?

Well they do.

I picked one up from school

on Thursday.....

I'm so glad she's a nice,
happy Witch! :)

Carving Pumpkins

Wednesday night we popped in the Halloween cd, turned it up loud, danced around to Thriller and Monster Mash and carved our pumpkins!!!

It was a perfect evening!

I just love Halloween!

Spooky Skulls in the

Haunted Graveyard

Slimy Creepy Crawly Swamp

These were the spook-tacular dishes I made for
the ghoul-icious Halloween dinner we had at
Kristen and Justin's last night.

Other items on the menu included:

wrapped up petrified mummy's drenched in puss and flem {chicken enchiladas}
bone fragments and clotty blood {chips and salsa}
bloody maggots or plain maggots, your choice folks! :)
{spanish rice or white rice}
and
rotten pumpkin guts {orange jello}

To drink, we had a magical witches brew straight from her smoking cauldron!

Mwa ha ha ha!

"Is it an all-play, is it an all-play?!!"

We had
THE BEST TIME
at the couples

Halloween Party
that Kirk and Amy hosted!!!

Let me introduce you to the guests:

Grammy and Grampy

~ Justin & I ~

The Mobsters

~ Kevin & Brooke ~

Streaker and Cheerleader

~ Chris & Carley ~

The Phantom and Kristine

~ Shawn and Freda ~

Wicked Witch and Captain Jack Sparrow

~ Jeramie & Peter ~

Plug and Outlet

~ Kirk & Amy ~

We ate yummy snacks and treats, played lots of fun games and had a grand ole' time!

Looks like Grammy and Grampy were gettin' a little fresh with each other during the donut game!
Oh how precious!

We were all neck and neck..... ummm, except for Kirk and Amy who had only eaten like, 1/4 of a donut :) ...but in the end Brooke and Kevin pulled through with the exciting win!

This oreo game was hilarious! You start with your head tilted back and the oreo sitting in the middle of your forehead. Then, only using facial expressions, you have to move the oreo from your forehead to your mouth.
Pretty darn tricky if you ask me, but oh so funny to watch!

We also played a fun round of Pictionary and a great game called Times Out Title Recall, which was extremely entertaining! And I'm talkin' over the top entertaining!! Wahoo!

We had lots and lots of laughs
and lots and lots of fun!
Good times!

It's Party Week!

Last Friday we went to Brett and Sarah's family friendly Halloween Party! :) We ate taco soup, salad, chips and dip and Frankenstein finger bread sticks for dinner. The bread sticks were SO cute, I wish I would have taken a picture of them! I'll have to get the recipe from Becky for next Halloween! And for dessert we had cute Halloween cupcakes that me and my kids made, Halloween sugar cookies and carmel apples that Sarah made.
Delicious!

Brett and Sarah had a Cake Walk for the kids and they played Ghost in the Graveyard. Our kids had already de-costume-ized by the time this picture was taken, but here are all the kids.

While the kids were destroying Brett and Sarah's basement, the adults had a chance to play a quick game of Catch Phase upstairs. :)
And here are the adults.

And lastly, I've never known a pirate to ride a horse...
until now.....

That picture makes me smile!
Love it!

Our little family had a great night! Thanks Brett and Sarah! :)

Tour de St. George

For UEA/Fall Break, we took a lovely little trip to St. George. Justin and Troy were planning on riding in the Tour de St. George bike ride on Saturday so we took advantage of the "holiday" weekend and all went down. We stayed in Grandma and Grandpa Smith's condo with them and had a GREAT time!

Comin' down the home stretch...

Wahoo! He made it!

Way to go Daddy!

Later that afternoon we were back at the finish line cheering Troy on as he finished the whole 100 miles. Go Troy! When we realized it was him coming down the home stretch, I didn't have time to get my camera out and ready, so no picture. Dang it! We tried to talk him into riding up the street a little and crossing the finish line again so we could get a picture but he didn't go for that. Ha ha! I don't blame him though, 100 miles is enough in one day, don't you think? :)

Avery and Quinn had a fabulous time playing in the water fountain at the finish line...

We topped the afternoon off with a good ole snow cone.

The water at the pool was so nice, it felt like a warm bath! We swam all three days and the kids loved it! Hayzen's favorite thing to do in water is SPLASH! He was having a blast splashing himself and Daddy in the face!

Avery got brave enough to jump off the side of pool all by herself. She did it over and over and over again a zillion times. Those swim lessons this summer really paid off!

"Cannon ball!!!"

This was Quinn's favorite spot, on the stairs right by the hand bar. We forgot to bring his water wings so when we weren't holding him, this was his prime territory.

Avery was pretending to be a "pink princess shark" and chased everyone around the pool.

That is until the "3 headed lochness monster" showed up and chased her! :)

Taking a bath in the BIG tub at the condo was SuPeR ExCiTiNg!

I just realized that pretty much all of my pictures involve water. Funny! We did a lot more than these water activities while we were there but these were just the select few times when my brain decided to function properly and remember to take pictures with the camera I guess. :)
Happy times! What a great weekend!!!