Halloween

Sorry I've been MIA for awhile, I broke my camera :( and forgot that I had some pics ready to post from before. Then everything got crazy with the holidays. But I'm finally back and Tony got me a new camera as an early Christmas present!

On October 28th we went to a great Halloween party at Breck's house. There was cookie decorating,

bingo,

pin the spider on the web,

and find the rubber eyeball in the "guts"!

It was so much fun and all the little preschool aged neighborhood kids looked SO CUTE in their costumes!

Christian couldn't leave without climbing the mountain of LoveSac and showing off the mini pumpkin that he got to take home as a favor.

I had the preschool kids make these ghosts, but Faith wanted to make one with the leftover materials and added the cute fangs, mean eyebrows, and word bubble.

That evening, we carved our pumpkins.

Christian got a hold of my camera and took this picture with it inside his pumpkin!

He also had to get a close up of pumpkin guts.

The next morning, Buddy was still a bit sleepy and cuddled with his kitty while I was at the computer.
Faith looked cute for the last school day before Halloween:

On Halloween night, we had a special dinner of green worms, blood sauce & eyeballs! Faith also made some great "bone" breadsticks.

Here are Christian's monster and Faith's haunted house jack-o-lanterns. Buddy drew his entirely by himself and I carefully carved exactly what he drew. Faith planned, drew and carved hers by herself! She got the idea from a Martha Stewart special. Didn't they both come out awesome?!!!

Mine is supposed to be a goblin.

Here are the cuties all ready to trick-or-treat.

Tony took them around our neighborhood while I handed out candy at the house this year. Then I joined them and we went around the patio homes neighborhood which is also in our ward. We headed over to Braeggers' for the traditional homemade chili and then to my parents' to show off the kids. Christian was asleep by the time we got our last stop in and he just snoozed on the couch.

Here's Faith with my mom:

and a close up of the cool eye makeup I did for her. We had a great Halloween!

The next day was Faith's birthday, so after church we made cupcakes to take around to the families. She wanted them to look like hamsters, so here was my prototype-

She got to open the gifts from us,

then we went over to my mom & dad's.

Hey, Christian! Always keepin' it classy, bro!

Faith's hamsters, unlike mine, had cute cheeks. We loaded up one with 8 candles

and she got some help blowing them out.

At Tony's mom & dad's, Tammy went all out as usual.

To go with Faith's Halloween costume, I had broken out my ancient sewing machine to make a lacy edged petticoat.

Now she loves to wear that thing over black leggings and with her new boots!

While out running errands, Christians second favorite stop (after "Old MacDonalds") is the bread store! We stopped by Great Harvest this day and had a brownie with our free peice of bread.

Here is Christian's art project that he made entirely on his own: back

and front. Love the glued on candy wrappers and envelope!

He made this picture for me on the computer and figured out how to make it print. He was asking me how to spell my name, and I was telling him the letters and describing what those letters look like. I didn't show him and he doesn't know his letters yet, so I had no idea any of them would be recognizable.

He got one that looks like a backward E,

a fairly decent M,

and a great Y!

Hopefully now that I've started, I can get through November and December in a hurry to catch up!