Halloween Night

We had such a fun Halloween!! Kayla was "Ariel" this year, Jaden was "Thomas the Train", and Jax was our "little pumpkin". First, we had our ward Trick or Treat, and Halloween Party. and man, was it alot of fun. In years past we have gone for the Primary portion and let the kids get their candy, and then we just go home. (that is due to the fact that Bri is usually working during the party!!) But this year, we decided to stay for the full party and get all the festivities in! and we were soo glad we did! They had a chili cook off, so we ate just about as much chili as we could.(you have to vote for the best one, so naturally you have to try them all!!) Our activities committee did a great job, they had a donut eating contests, bowling for ghosts, Halloween twister, a cake walk and of course a raffle with door prizes. As you know, Kayla and Jaden LOVE donuts, so they were all over that one. Kayla joined in about half way through, and still almost won! That's our little princess... snarfing down her donut as fast as she can! People thought it was funny when I told them that she didn't even know it was a contest, that is just how she eats donuts!! Jaden actually got in on the donut eating TWICE, I was so worried that he was going to be sick! We had a great time visiting with friends, eating, playing and just having a great time!!


1.Running for the car 2.Jax's tummy was so big, we couldn't get his seat belt on!! 3.Waiting for the go ahead to start the treating!




Then, on Halloween (the 31st) BOTH kids had Halloween parties at school, so this is how our day went...
12 noon: race to Kayla's school (with both boys in tow) to help her get her costume on.
12:30: at Kayla's school watching the Kindergarten and all FOUR 1st Grade classes do a parade around the halls in their costumes. It was very cute... SO MANY KIDS!! and they all looked great! I was happy to be there because I met about 10 other moms, and got some phone numbers so I can arrange some play dates for Mikayla. Woo Hoo!!

1:00: run out of Kayla's school, cause Jaden is late for preschool, rush across town (actually two towns) and drop Jaden off. A I am driving home, I get a phone call reminding me that I volunteered to help out at Kayla's Halloween part that afternoon!!

1:45: dump Jax in his crib, praying that Bri will be home from school soon to watch him, just in case he doesn't sleep. (Bri was at school having a meeting with his professor, and was unreachable!)

2:15: run back into Kayla's school (late of course!) and the party is already started... but that is a good thing because they asked me to be in charge of musical chairs... WAY FUN! since I am already pretty good friends with most of the kids, it was a lot of fun, and we were the noisiest center in the room!!
3:30: RUNNING out of Kayla's school and SPEEDING over to Provo to pick up Jaden at preschool (I am asking myself... why did I pick a school in Provo?!?) by the time we got there it was 3:45 (VERY late!)


OK, so by the time I got home I was about ready to drop! Did I mention all I'd eaten that day was a slice of cheese? I was wiped out!! but it was a fun day... I spent the rest of the time carving pumpkins. I was so excited for this little project, since I have never done it before... however due to unforeseen (but easily imagined) circumstances, I ended up carving three pumpkins all by myself. I am thinking if no one wants to do it, I may just buy one for myself next year, and the rest of them can go without!! no one was even excited about it... and I must say, my first attempt at carving was, um, interesting!!


So Happy Halloween to all, hope you had a spooky good night!! and LOTS of yummy candy!

P.S. some more pictures, mostly of Kayla's school parade etc... and ONE of Jaden and his infamous preschool teacher, Miss Corrinne in her costume. (her shoes were the best!)

*See the "little" girl at the top left of the class picture? that is Kayla's arch enemy Pomai... the genie in the pink is Thalia (who thinks and acts like I am her "other" mom.) Maxum is on the bottom left, when I met him I thought he was the quintessential bully, but is the sweetest boy! The cool dude up by Kayla is Miles... he gives her a hard time and tells her she wears boy clothes... (funny thing is , that day she WAS wearing a boy shirt... OOPS!) Too bad I didn't get a pic of Tyler, he is Kayla's favorite!! my camera conked out mid-party*