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.

Ranch week

 Well this week we stayed at the Johnson ranch so we could take the boys to school and things while grandpa and grandma were were on vacation with Russell.

I'll admit I was a little worried about how Emma would do sleeping somewhere other than her bed. 

But she did great!! She went to sleep in "Emma's new bed" like a champ! And AddiLyn slept through the night for the first time in a long time last night. They sleep better here then they do at home haha.

It's so nice being here. There is so much open space and I can let EmmaLee run without worrying about cars. She's loved it so much, we don't want to go back home! ;)

Our first night little AddiLyn didn't want to go to bed so we sat on our bed taking pictures until she got fussy. Needless to say, we ended up taking tons of pictures.

Here are a few other pictures of this week...

Walking down the driveway

Playing in the arena. I love it when kids get dirty. Dirt was made to be played in :)

I found Ryan's little handprint from when he was a kid.

And then there are the donkeys. Emma loves them. She'll find little pieces of hay and feed it to them, and tell them to share. Then if they start making noises she says "shh it's ok donkeys, it's okay I love you." 

She also loves the goats, horses and cows. But the donkeys have won her heart.

Taking a nap snuggled up to me. I love it when she does that.

AddiLyn loves the walker they have here. She's got the strongest little legs. If the rest of her body was as strong as her legs she'd be walking right now. She can scoot herself around in the walker at 5 and half months. Thats crazy to me.

It's been so much fun and such a nice break from everyday life. 

We love this ranch!