Halloween 2014

Holidays are 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times more fun with kids. Seriously. It's like your reliving your own fun childhood memories with them. I love it.

Halloween was super fun and simple this year. We carved pumpkins, of course. But never lit them. Sad huh?

Emma was not a huge fan. 

AddiLyn got a hold of a chunk of pumpkin slime and thought she'd taste it. :)

I'm not sure anyone would be able to tell what we carved, even if we did light them up and show them off.

We also went to a pumpkin patch in a neighboring town.

A week before Halloween we had trunk or treating at the ranch with the 2nd ward since we weren't going to be able to attend our own wards trunk or treat. Parties at the ranch are always so much fun. We had good food, saw a bunch of awesome costumes, caught up with friends and went trunk or treating. 

This is the only event we all dressed up as a family. 

Haha. Very corny. But it was free, just things we had on hand. I didn't even think about costumes until last minute so I just pulled a bunch of things together and made it work... Sort of.

Halloween night we went trick or treating around the block. There were herds of children everywhere. I've never seen trick or treating as such a huge event, but this neighborhood we live in now is all for it! A bunch of the neighbors intensely decked their houses with Halloween decor. It was a lot of fun. Emma seemed a little wary of some of the costumes. Especially clowns. She'd see them and whisper "it's a alien..." Haha. She also calls skeletons aliens. I don't know where she's even heard the word alien. But she enjoyed trick or treating until she got chilly so we went home and she helped hand out candy with daddy while I got AddiLyn ready for bed. All in all it was a fun Halloween! 

My homemade Halloween decor for the year.

Halloween 2013

Well Halloween is pretty much over for us. We carved pumpkins, went trunk or treating and had an awesome ward Halloween party. All that's missing now is watching hocus pocus and eating caramel popcorn!

I wish I would have taken more pictures at the Halloween party. It was sooo much fun! 

There was a lot of great food, super nice people (seriously, I have the most friendly ward. At first a didn't like it because there aren't many younger couples but the more I get to know the people there the more I want to stay in this ward forever! So many super nice and welcoming people!) 

So anyways. There was great food, lots of fun activities, costume parading, socializing, trunk or treating, a haunted hay ride and lots of fun costumes.

Loved it.

Hideous mummy truffles I made for the party. Hideous but so good.

Another yummy treat I made!

Emma was so pooped by the end of the day...( we went to 2 birthday parties before the ward party, leaving no time for a nap! Yikes. ) 

Here are a few more 2013 Halloween pictures!

She hated carving pumpkins. 

Halloween Party

So it's Halloween and I've checked out early for the night. Ryan's at work and I am snuggled down with the baby, watching Hocus Pocus and blogging.

This Halloween we decided to go all out with celebrating the holidays since we haven't the past couple years. So yesterday Ryan didn't have work so we threw a Halloween party together. So. Much. Fun.

There were some fun costumes... 

Words can't do them justice, so here are some pictures!

Disclaimer: Do not continue if you can't handle tons of adorable picture.This is seriously the longest blog I have ever created so brace yourself.

We'll start with my little lady bug. Emma!

Pretty baby. She loved getting all dressed up and all the attention she got

This is how she gets what she wants, all she has to do is bat those big eyes and  my heart melts.

The shoes were fun. So adorable.

Killer ladybug trying to eat cat. 

"Okay, I'm ready to take this thing off!"

We thought Emma would be terrified of Ryan because of the makeup, but nope. It's like she didn't even notice it.

Trying to crawl around

Next spooky costume photoshoot. Ryan!

We bought Halloween makeup at Walmart, it never dried and was all slimy and itchy for Ryan. So he just kept it on for pictures but washed it off right after. 

Being a creeper!

Chillin' with his pals haha

Haha it turned out way scarier looking than I thought it would!

Hannah, AKA Pochahauntus! Love her!

Arrrrrr, Amy the pirate! So cute :)

Bryce, the "tall guy." His stilts, ahem, I mean power risers are so sick! I would try them but I know I'd fall on my face...

Alycia, being gorgeous as always. Cheesing it up as an angel!

The force is with him. Master Jedi Andy!

Mom, dressed up as...*drum roll*... Mom! And photographer! haha love her!

And then there's me... A cow girl. I couldn't think of anything else to be. And Ryan has all his cowboy stuff so I just threw everything together and called it good! And yes. Yes I do have an air soft gun and Bear Grylls knife on my belt. 

Great costumes make for a great party!!

We played at least 10 minute to win it games. We had homemade root beer fizzing and candles lit as they came inside. Ryan scared everyone with his costume/ makeup. We had a quick photoshoot and we got busy with the games. We gave out prizes and at the end everyone got goodies. 

Ryan made root beer and cream soda. It was soooo amazing.  We had root beer floats with it after the games. yum!

Minute to win it props and prizes

Minute to win it games are seriously so easy to set up, with hardly any expense to the host. Just house hold items turned into competitions. They get intense. So FUN.

Here are just a bunch of pictures from our Halloween adventures. 

 

This was kind of an experimental party. It turned out to be such a fun day and I'm feeling more confident in hosting parties not just with family but with friends too!

We'll see. :)