We have been having a blast with the Halloween season around our house. I was never a big fan of Halloween but I am now! This past Thursday Ian and I attended a play at the Scera Theater in Orem called "How I Became A Pirate." A lady in our ward put together a group of 20 of us so we were able to get tickets for $2 dollars (instead of $6). Ian loved it for the first 20 minutes, then the captain took of his jacket and hat which Ian found annoying. He still enjoyed the play and loved the snack they provided for all the little kids. At the end of the play the actors and actresses came out to answer questions from the audience. Ian was so determined to ask a question but unfortunately he did not get picked. I guess he just wanted to wear the captain's pirate hat.
After returning home for some lunch we headed to the Hogle Zoo with the Thompson's. Ian and Ellie had a blast running around and looking at all of the animals. They both were excited and anxious to see the crocodiles. They saw them (they were just laying in the water doing nothing) then decided it was boring and ran off to see other animals. We always love going to the zoo and even more when we are in good company! Thanks for calling!!!
Friday my family came to visit for the weekend. The kids are always super excited when they find out everyone is coming. My grandparents were in Park City that week and stayed with us before heading back home.
This just goes to prove that you are never to old to play with blocks... I think we were all entertained watching Andrew build this tower!
That night my mom, grandma, Hunter, my neighbor Sytske, and I headed to the late showing of Footloose! Even grandma headed to the late show! It was quite the event getting to the movies, considering the theater had the wrong show times posted on their website. The nice thing about being in Utah Valley is a 10 minute drive and we were at another theater.
The next day we all picked out pumpkins. Let the carving begin! Ian was very excited. When we were heading to pick out pumpkins Ian wanted one that was taller than him. By some miracle he ended up deciding he wanted a little sugar pumpkin!
Aaron liked looking in all the pumpkins and playing with the pumpkin goo.
Hunter did great and cleaned out his whole pumpkin -even with Ian tossing extra goo in it.
Ian was our pumpkin cleaner. We would loosen all of the goo then Ian would scoop it all into the bucket. He was excellent! He wouldn't leave one pumpkin seed behind. 
The final product! Tim decided to carve Megamind this year since Ian absolutely loves Megamind. I carved Minion (megamind's sidekick), Hunter carved a death eater, and Ian wanted to make a one-eyed monster. 
Megamind a little closer.
On Sunday everyone headed out early in the morning. We decided to make some haunted gingerbread houses (My parents gave Ian and Aaron the kit for halloween)! Ian loved decorating them and enjoyed doing the frosting all by himself on the one house that I let him. The rest of the homes I frosted and he decorated. 
Notice the black frosting on the corners of Ian's mouth? It was gross frosting but he still thought it was fun to eat a little here and there.
Our Haunted Houses!
Then on Tuesday we headed to the Provo River Halloween Cruise. I had got tickets half off back in September for all of us. Ian loved it! Aaron enjoyed it more than we thought he would. The weather has dropped this week into the high 40's so we pulled out all of our winter gear and headed out. Aaron stayed nice and toasty warm in his new snowsuit Papa and Nana found him.
I decided that we would go early in order to beat the crowd and hopefully it would be a little warmer :) What should have been a 15 minutes drive turned into an hour drive with all of the lame construction, road closures, and detours. Have I mentioned I hate Utah Valley! Thankfully the kids slept the whole time. Plus we still beat the rush! Picture I tried to snap really quick of us on the boat.
After returning home for some lunch we headed to the Hogle Zoo with the Thompson's. Ian and Ellie had a blast running around and looking at all of the animals. They both were excited and anxious to see the crocodiles. They saw them (they were just laying in the water doing nothing) then decided it was boring and ran off to see other animals. We always love going to the zoo and even more when we are in good company! Thanks for calling!!!
Friday my family came to visit for the weekend. The kids are always super excited when they find out everyone is coming. My grandparents were in Park City that week and stayed with us before heading back home.
This just goes to prove that you are never to old to play with blocks... I think we were all entertained watching Andrew build this tower!
That night my mom, grandma, Hunter, my neighbor Sytske, and I headed to the late showing of Footloose! Even grandma headed to the late show! It was quite the event getting to the movies, considering the theater had the wrong show times posted on their website. The nice thing about being in Utah Valley is a 10 minute drive and we were at another theater.The next day we all picked out pumpkins. Let the carving begin! Ian was very excited. When we were heading to pick out pumpkins Ian wanted one that was taller than him. By some miracle he ended up deciding he wanted a little sugar pumpkin!
Aaron liked looking in all the pumpkins and playing with the pumpkin goo.
Hunter did great and cleaned out his whole pumpkin -even with Ian tossing extra goo in it.
Ian was our pumpkin cleaner. We would loosen all of the goo then Ian would scoop it all into the bucket. He was excellent! He wouldn't leave one pumpkin seed behind. 
The final product! Tim decided to carve Megamind this year since Ian absolutely loves Megamind. I carved Minion (megamind's sidekick), Hunter carved a death eater, and Ian wanted to make a one-eyed monster. 
Megamind a little closer.
On Sunday everyone headed out early in the morning. We decided to make some haunted gingerbread houses (My parents gave Ian and Aaron the kit for halloween)! Ian loved decorating them and enjoyed doing the frosting all by himself on the one house that I let him. The rest of the homes I frosted and he decorated. 
Notice the black frosting on the corners of Ian's mouth? It was gross frosting but he still thought it was fun to eat a little here and there.
Our Haunted Houses!
Then on Tuesday we headed to the Provo River Halloween Cruise. I had got tickets half off back in September for all of us. Ian loved it! Aaron enjoyed it more than we thought he would. The weather has dropped this week into the high 40's so we pulled out all of our winter gear and headed out. Aaron stayed nice and toasty warm in his new snowsuit Papa and Nana found him.
I decided that we would go early in order to beat the crowd and hopefully it would be a little warmer :) What should have been a 15 minutes drive turned into an hour drive with all of the lame construction, road closures, and detours. Have I mentioned I hate Utah Valley! Thankfully the kids slept the whole time. Plus we still beat the rush! Picture I tried to snap really quick of us on the boat.
I think we have done all of the possible Halloween activities that there is to do! Next Halloween!!!
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