Showing posts with label ethan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethan. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2013

This is Halloween!!


This is a spider web of a cat faced spider that graced our garage door!

I can't believe another October and Halloween are behind us! 
Time just has flown by faster than usual this year! 
 I wish we had another week or two 
to enjoy things just a little bit longer.
We did however, enjoy Pumpkin Cookies every single week! 
I think I made over 7 batches of them to take to various events and we enjoyed all of the extras! Out of all of the cookies I make, I am pretty sure my kids would say these are their favorite!

Today was my last afternoon to enjoy my favorite centerpiece...
My Halloween tree filled with wallet sized photos of all of our Halloween memories since Ethan was a baby!

Everyday this month has been a happy trip down memory lane. 
Oh how I love October!
As usual, there was no shortage
 of FUN and excitement dressing up for the day.

This is Tracy's day of the year to
 "humor" his wife and boys.  
Dressing up for the Halloween Concert, is enough for him. 
I'm just grateful that he dresses up for that!
(So in case you're wondering why only photos of Kimmie and boys are shown, that is why!)

Here are photos from Halloween 2013... 
Starring Sally, Jack Skellington and Nerd Zombie!
Getting all dressed in costumes to go to work and school!

I SPY... 
a "not-too-scary" Sally, 
ready to show her PE kids some FUN Halloween games!

 LOVE the way these photos turned out!
(our local cemetery has some great foliage to use as a backdrop)
I LOVE these guys!  


Nerd Zombie (aka Ethan)
(He totally got into his part 
and had fun with the photos...
Actually to be honest, he was "in character" from the moment he put on his costume/make-up early in the morning to the moment he took it off late at night!)

It's SO funny that he was a NERD Zombie, because he is my studious, book loving kid and just became part of the NERD club at school, where kids his age get together and discuss all kinds of cool things with space, science, animals and LOTS of history!


Jack Skellington...
(aka Jade)
 Sally...
 Hey...
There's a Nerd Zombie 
staring back at me in my rear view window!

As I type...
My little monsters are tucked in bed, 
our Halloween costumes and makeup are put neatly away 
and while it's sad to say good-bye 
to October and Halloween for another year,
 I'm looking forward to November 
and all of the joy that comes with the month of Gratitude!

Thursday, October 10, 2013

It's my most favorite month of the year!

October
Oh how I love you!
I love the cool weather and that it's the start of wearing my knee socks and boots!
I LOVE the colorful leaves!
 I love Pumpkin EVERYTHING!
I love making FUN and spooky meals.
I love all of my Halloween decor.
I love all of my adorable SPIDERS that are scattered all around my house!
I love carving pumpkins!
I love watching Scary Movies!
I LOVE DRESSING UP!
I love all of the fun traditions that are abundant this time of the year!

Here are highlights
 from LAST years month of October 2012.
(since I didn't get it blogged about LAST year).

I LOVE my holiday tree 
with photos from past Halloweens! 
Colorful chips and Hot Bean Dip!
Coolest pumpkin EVER!
Awesome job Tracy and Ethan!  

Pumpkin Cookies
Finger Breadsticks
 Meal in a Squash
a few of the holiday treats we made up this month! 
My mother-in-law has such fun and unique holiday decor this time of the year!


Mr and Mrs. Smith celebrated 
birthdays on the 20th and 22nd! 
I LOVE that our birthdays are only two days apart 
and that we're just two years apart in age. 

Kimmie turned 42 and Tracy turned 44.
(Adorable cupcake compliments 
of my cute Beehive girl Ellie Taylor)

Happy Birthday Tracy dinner!
Heart-shaped Salmon Salad, 

fresh grape juice and pumpkin cookie!

Our costumes that we wore to the 
ANNUAL BYU-I Halloween Concert! 
(we've been attending this annual event for over 20 years)
(we invited Karissa to come along and enjoy the night with us)
LOVE my boys and love even more that they humor me in dressing up in costumes two times during the month of October!

Clever pumpkin carvings
 from Young Women Girls!  

Halloween morning breakfast!

PE teacher (aka Bat Girl)

This was the day after Halloween. 
I teach PE on Wednesdays and Thursdays... 
Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year and so I did my Halloween tag games with my Thursday class on November 1st. YES, we got SNOW!!!!

My awesome boys!
Jade did such an amazing job 
on his Zombie make-up!


We live right near a cemetery 
and so I took my boys there 
and we took some cool photos. 
It was AWESOME!
Coming out of the casket

LOVE these guys!
Scary, Scary!!
This was the sight in my rear view mirror 
when we went to the annual Chili and Donut party 
at our friends the Francises!
Happy Fall 2013! 
Looking forward to all of the FUN and beauty 
of this years October!