Happy Halloween!

The Friday before Halloween I went to Kaiya's school to help with their harvest party. The teacher is new this year so she was nervous about the party.... but it went well and the kids had a lot of fun. There were stations set up...bingo, decorate a pumpkin, spider toss, pin the magnet on the pumpkin nose and decorate a spider cookie. The kids were loaded up with lots of sweets and were bouncing off the wall. 




That night our ward had a Primary Halloween Carnival and Trunk or Treat. They had lots of different stations (bean bag toss, donut attached to a string, spin the wheel etc). The kids got their 2nd dose of all they could eat sweets and then everyone headed outside for Trunk or Treating. Kaiya dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood and Ella was an Elephant. Kaiya got A LOT of candy and enjoyed walking around with her friend Faith.




Saturday I woke up and went to Target and the Party Store to get some last minute things for a baby shower I was throwing on Sunday for my cousin. It wasn't until I was in the stores that I started feeling really festive. Our plan that night was...no plans. We figured we would go to a couple houses for Ella and hand out candy to the few kids that made the trek up to our house. After shopping I called my brother to see if they wanted to come over for a little Halloween celebrating. Junior came and got Kaiya. Cirdan, Ella and I went trick or treating with them at a few houses. Ella loved it once she figured out all she had to do was run up to the house and people would give her goodies in her bag! Nate, Amy and Emma came over and we ended up making cookies, decorating them, eating yummy garlic dip that Nate brought over, played Wii and then played a DVD Pirates of the Caribbean game. My mom came after work. It ended up being a really fun night!







The back of the elephant costume was so funny! There was some really good padding and her little bum looked huge!