M&M's

What a blast! Halloween was such fun this year! We took the kiddos to a pumpkin patch and let them roam around for a while and play all over the pumpkins, which we never purchased! I thought pumpkin patch pumpkins are suppose to be cheaper than the store? Apparently not here. $14 bucks for a squash, no thank you! But we had fun just chillin.

Just some random photos of the kids goofing around.


We got our non pumpkin patch pumpkins, Haldey was more than ecstatic. Both kids were going nuts picking every pumpkin they could get there hands on and trying to put them in the grocery cart. After we got them home, Hads was pretty much making out with them the first half hour they were home.

My mom growing up did such a great job at making the holidays special for us. I loved it, it made so great memories. I wanted to try a little magic potion like mom did for us. We mixed up some Kool-Aid, and hit up the dry ice store. Hadley picked a purple potion and Hayden did red.

The kids helped me make some jello with eye balls and worms in it. We also made "mummy dogs" hot dogs wrapped in stripped crescent rolls. It was super simple and they had a blast putting it together and their buddies that came over thought it was pretty cool. Hadley totally freaked out when the magic potion starting bubbling, but when it came close to her she flipped and started screaming "Hot, Hot!" Hilarious. Funny thing is... my kids(and I think most of their friends) have never had Kool-Aid before and only had jello a couple times. So pretty much no one ate or drank anything besides the hot dogs! But the reaction from the kiddos was priceless. By the end of the night the dry ice had carbonated the Kool-Aid and Dan and I were downing the grape potion because it tasted like a divine grape soda! So good!

Hayden wanted to be Frankenstein at story time. I must say he pulled it off pretty well!

On to the trick or treating. Hayden got the option of being an M&M or an M&M. I am was not feeling motivated to go all out this year with costumes, but they were more than happy to dress up as candy. They got to go to the store and pick out there favorite colors. And even though these costumes were beyond easy, I think they turned out just fine!

We went to a big strip mall and hit up the trick or treating. Both did a great job and made out with plenty of loot. They also had a fire truck to check out, so the kiddos blast driving and playing around.

My mischief maker!

Kiddos with their buddies. Later that night we had the ward trunk or treat. Which got rained out and we headed indoors. Can I just say that people are so talented! So many moms made awesome costumes for their kids, and they were so creative! We were surrounded by cute kids all day!

The weather is so warm here you have to wait to carve your pumpkin or it will go bad with in a day or two. Hayden and Hadley picked out Mickey and Minnie for their pumpkins. Hayden was interested for a while, Hadley was a little too interested! Mom and Dad did most of the work.

I think we carved pumpkins in record time this year! Dan was very proud of his Mickey, I claim he has an unfair advantage of a steady hand and many years of dental work under his wing. My Minnie was okay, but you can tell I don't have the skills of a pumpkin carving master!

On actual Halloween we have a few more activities, but I have class at night so we probably won't do too much.