Halloween

After Aaron's birthday this month has been full of one halloween party after another!  To start off the activities was the Kids Village Humanitarian Haunt. This is one of the kids favorite events of the year! The kids had so much fun getting all dressed up and playing games after games! Aaron was dressed as Cole from Ninjago (and begged me to give him bushy eyebrows) Ian was flash, and Ava was a flower fairy.

They even had a photographer there to take pictures of the kids! Which was my favorite part :)

Next up was the ward halloween chili cook-off to be followed by the Michaelis pumpkin carving party! The boys loved being able to carve their own unique pumpkin. Tim took the boys out earlier that week on a daddy son date to see their first big kid movie -guardians of the galaxy. He even took them shopping after to pick out some fun halloween costumes. 

The next night we had the Michaelis Family over for dinner and to carve pumpkins. I accidentally cut out Ava's elsa pumpkin from the bottom picture. The kids had so much fun picking their own design and then cutting them out. I was impressed that they boys were able to do it on their own.

Next up was Ian's Halloween parade at school to be followed by his class party. Aaron and I loved seeing all the kids dressed up for Halloween. There were a lot of Elsa and Anna's. Plus quite a few guardian of the galaxy characters. The picture below is Ian, Gage, and Gunner. All such great friends. 

Next up was the class party! The kids had so much fun making the spider hats as you can see from the picture above as well. We also made swamp stew -and the kids were able to take some home is skeleton hands. And had a prize walk -which did not work. Not to self first graders are not the best at walking in a circle. It moved very slowly but was quite hilarious. 

That evening was beautiful! The weather was perfect and the kids loved running from door to door. Ava joined in at the beginning to visit a few friends homes.

Starlord, Drax, flower fairy

Before the kids headed out trick-or-treating we made our usually monster/mummy pizzas.  I left Tim in charge of cooking them and somehow he managed to completely burn them. There were as black as could be :( The kids made quite the haul of candy. Ava loved discovering that there was actually something tasting inside the wrapper and enjoyed her very first sucker. And Ryder had to join in on the Halloween fun as well. 

 The next morning we jumped in the car and headed to the last day of Cornbelly's. 

We loaded our pumpkins in the car and bought them down to the pumpkin smash. The kids could have stayed in this area smashing pumpkins all day long! The videos were in slow motion on my phone which is way cooler -but still fun to watch in normal speed.

On of our favorite parts about Cornbelly's on November 1st is all the extra activities. Like the pumpkin pie eating contest. It was no surprise that Tim took first place in the adults (he took first place last year as well). He ate his entire slice of pie in about 3 seconds. Ian was so excited to be able to compete in the children division. He took second place! He was up against teenagers....no surprise where that talent comes from. It has been such a fun and festive October...but next up is Thanksgiving, my favorite!