Halloween

We're lucky to have a grandma who makes Halloween easy for us:

We put in our costume orders in September and voila!

Even Paul sort of dressed up.

He went along with his Pirate Queen and Pirate Princess..

 Halle wanted to be a BYU cheerleader-

Go Cougars!

The girls are happy to pose!

Afton and her friend Mallory went as 80s prom queens

Ahoy Pirate Princess Nora!

and Matthew wanted to be a WWI flying ace.

This is the only picture he'd give us.

Grandma really came through this year with our variety of requests!  The kids love coming up with ideas and knowing that Grandma will make it happen!

Happy Halloween!

We have been Halloweening all weekend.

Saturday night was the annual church party.

The girls decided to go as rock stars...

We even got Paul to dress up (sort of)

He was our band crew...

(seriously, what kind of crew member wears a pressed, blue plaid, button-down shirt under his band tee)

 As usual, Matt went his own way.

He decided to be a race car driver

 And Uncle Troy wanted to rile up some Bears fans

However, we were at a church party, and most people decided to turn the other cheek

 instead of starting a brawl in front of the primary children!

And tonight, Afton insisted on carving pumpkins...

We wish you all a scary, silly, sweet day!

We will be filling it with more parties, parades, and trick-or-treating.

Halloween Report

While there has been a lot going on this month,

our Halloween festivities were rather low key

Halle's preschool sang their fall songs and showed off costumes

Then, they paraded out in the wind.  

Halle did a great job keeping her hat on!

On Saturday, we headed to the church "Round-Up" with our cowgirls...

one witchy mom.... 

and our toaster!

Matt has great costume ideas and Grandma Bunting can put together

anything that he dreams up!

Last night, we had yummy chowder and cornbread on our spooky dishes

then we watched one of my childhood favorite movies "Labyrinth"

while passing out candy to the trick-or-treaters!

Halloween!

We had so much fun trick-or-treating last night!

We have some friendly, fun neighbors who organized a great night for our families to get together!

First, the kids gathered to go trick-or-treating.

This is the first year Halle has really understood what that means and she was raring to go!

Afton loves having friends so close--they play every day after school!

I think this is the way to trick-or-treat--a heated golf cart!

The parent would load the kids in the seat up front and also onto the back and away they go!

You can cover a lot of ground that way.

I love the kids running from house to house--they were so excited

and it was so fun to go with a big group of neighborhood friends!

Scoring the loot and off to the next house!

We absolutely love our new neighborhood and friends

we gathered afterward for dinner and chatting

while some of the bigger kids went to more of the neighborhood,

but my kids were candied out!

(thank heaven--it was cold and I haven't yet gotten my golf cart!)

Halloween Party

We had our ward Halloween party over the weekend!

It is always fun to dress up and have fun with our friends.

We started off with a grumpy cupcake, but she improved dramatically with some bribery!

Thanks to Grandma for making the great costumes-

We put in our order in September and Grandma delivered 3 very cute cupcakes and a goldfish!

Thanks to Nana for my baker's hat to match the cupcakes!

Halloween Party

We went to our ward Halloween party last weekend and had so much fun. Halle is now at the age where she would go with Matt and Afton to play all the games, while Paul and I got to chat with other adults! The kids were very excited about the costumes Grandma made (thanks Grandma!) Matt wanted to be a furry bat-so Grandma made sure he was furry. Afton decided since she was Jasmine, she needed a tiger and Halle was able, if not so much willing.

(Afton always make sure to strike a "Jasmine" pose for her pictures)

(We were happy to get one of her standing still--Matt didn't, hence he doesn't have his own picture)

Paul went dressed up as a participant in a pie-eating contest! (He was actually volunteered for the contest--not by me--and was a good sport even though he felt a little sick after eating 4 cups of pudding with all the whipped cream!)

Jack-o-Lanterns

We had family night with Heather here and decided to carve our pumpkins a little early. The kids had a lot of fun picking out what they wanted to design. Matt did his all by himself and Afton and Halle got a little help! I made the caramel apples while everyone else worked!