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Halloween Festivities

Dressing up

We started dressing up at our house on Wednesday. Gibby was dressed up and headed off to preschool for a little Halloween Party. Etta got dressed up for dance, they were having a little party also. Thursday, Friday and Saturday we had something going on to dress up for. We got great use out of our costumes this year.

Anni and Etta, take the picture smiles

Silly cheesy smiles

Gardner Village

I love going to Gardner Village for the Witches. It is so fun to see all the fun Witches, have the great feeling of Halloween and Fall, and enjoy some goodies. My friend April and I headed over their Thursday before Halloween. It was a beautiful day but a bit chilly. With gloves and hats we had a great time and enjoyed some cookies and cocoa at the end.

Me, my kids and a Witch.
Gibby's first time seeing the Witches, didn't quite know what to think.

Witches playing piano, Etta told me later she wants to play the piano like the Witch, hehehe

Etta liked the Witch with the Big Red Hat

Gibby was a bit confused with the Witch flying on her bike

Gibby and Etta wanted to join in with the Witches playing Baseball. Our favorite Witches by far.

Kiddos in a horseless carriage: Ashton, Cole, Gibby and Etta

Gibby kept saying "Hats off for Hot Chocolate"

Etta joined in by taking her hat off too

As we were leaving Gibby said "Bye Witches" it was so dang Cute!

Preschool Party

I was in charged of the games for Etta's preschool Halloween party. I loved being there for her party to see her playing with her friends and listening to her teachers. They read a fun Halloween story then it was time for the games and crafts. I had a fun musical Halloween bean bag game going on along with Ghost bowling. The kids also decorated pumpkin shaped foam pictures with googly eyes and glitter. The teachers had the kids dancing and singing Halloween songs just before cookie making. Once the cookies where frosted and eaten we headed home. What great little party.

Story time: A fun witch that wasn't afraid of anything

Singing and dancing to Halloween songs

Pretending to be ghosts, they had some really cute Halloween songs I had never heard before that all the kids preformed for us

cookie decorating time

I noticed every kid did this, sneaking some icing off the knife

Etta's face shows how much fun she had at her preschool party

Ebay Halloween

Every year eBay decks our their halls and desks and allows family and friends to come trick or treat around the buildings. We enjoy going because we get to spend some time with daddy at work. We brought lunch and enjoyed some good food before it was off to bother people while they were still working.

Eating lunch before fun trick or treating at eBay

We thought we were eating lunch with Daddy, but Robert De Niro joined us instead

Gibby showing off his costume

Hurt Tiger, Veterinarian, and injured little monkey

Trick or Treating from desk to desk

Playing down the scary cubicle hallway

Sweaty and tired little monkey from all the trick or treating through ebay

Trick or Treating

We headed off in our neighborhood on Halloween night. To hit up a few neighbor friends and experience the fun of Trick or Treating! Happy Halloween!

My injured Monkey, Veterinarian and Me as Jackie O.

Halloween Picture pre- Trick or Treating

Daddy with the Trick or Treaters

Off to "Williams" house!

Etta with her favorite boys in the neighborhood

The Pumpkins for Halloween

The Pumpkin Patch

We were invited to go with some friends to their preschool pumpkin patch field trip. The kids loved it and had tons of fun! It was a bit rainy but a wonderful fall day.


Listening to how pumpkins grow and all the many different kids of pumpkins


Time to choose our pumpkin ( I love Gibby's gloves that aren't on correctly)


Mine! (I think mainly because he could carry it himself)


Etta picked one she could hold but was still a good size


Our Halloween Pumpkins


Gibby carrying his pumpkin to the car

They had a little hay stacked maze for little kids. I loved it because I could follow their heads and yet they couldn't see over.

Starting the maze:

This way everyone



Gibby giving a look out for the best route to take


Etta making her way through, I love this picture it is so dang cute


Helping each other through the maze


Under the bridge and the end of the maze!

It was a fun little activity. I am a little bummed I didn't do as much as I wanted to in the area of activities but we had fun when we did go out.

Time to Decorate our Pumpkins

We had fun one evening painting and glittering up our pumpkins. We were going to carve them but Etta didn't want to cut her pumpkin and Gibson's was a little small so I busted out the paint and glitter and they had a ton of fun. Plus I didn't have to carve all of them, which is what usually happens.


All ready

Etta and her pumpkin:

She started with a face


Just a few more sprinkles


The beautiful pumpkin, designed by Etta

Gibby and his pumpkin:

Orange for the first layers


Next is the green and glitter


washing off the brush


Finished pumpkin

I forgot to take a picture of mine but the kiddos did love the candle light inside mommy's pumpkin and said next year we can cut all the pumpkins.

Family Reunion and Dino Park

We had a great weekend with the family up in Ogden. Sleepovers, games, food, dinosaur park and outside fun.

It was great to see my sisters (missed you Ami). We made the cutest craft ever for Halloween and can't wait to get together to make Thanksgiving ones and Christmas ones. The kids where everywhere and loved playing with all the cousins. Etta and Kaydee played non stop and left out one of the other cousins. We will work on letting boy cousins in to play!
The two best games ever. Cash & Guns and a fun game called Characters. We laughed, eat some great food and watched a few chick flicks. What a great little weekend, love you all!
(Andy doesn't like the slides to much but I have tons of pics)

Fall time, Park time

One beautiful afternoon, a couple weeks ago, Andy told us we needed to get out of the house. I wanted to go on a hike but couldn't decide where. Andy got a little frustrated and ended up take us back home. Well, the kids and I headed back out and made our way to the "Princess Park". The kids loved it and it was good to get out since we had a pretty low key, stay in the house weekend. I just loved taking tons of pictures of my kids and Etta took some of me. She is getting really good especially being only 3! The colors were beautiful, the water running by the park smelled wonderful with the fall air and the cool breeze was perfect. Love those wonderful fall days!

Off to the toys!

Great way to come down from the Castle

Riding their Stallions

My little monkey who loves to climb everything

She climbed all the way to the top!

Off to the ball in the pumpkin carriage

Driving the pumpkin carriage

atop the castle looking down

Swinging fun time

Little nature hike

Mommy's pic taken by Etta

Etta's turn

Dirty sandy Gibby's turn

One last slide before we go
Gibby trying to escape

I caught him on the other side, hehehe

Gateway Pumpkin Festival

Last weekend we headed over to the Gateway for their fun Pumpkin Festival with Radio Disney. Gibson and Etta had a blast decorating their pumpkins, playing the little table games and dancing with Radio Disney.

Etta making her pumpkin have heart shaped eyes, it was of course a princess pumpkin

Gibby just put everything on his pumpkin he could get his hands on

The beautiful pumpkins and the talented pumpkin designers

Etta playing Plinko- my all time favorite game!

Gibby and his chocolate money and whistle he won

Their favorite part of the pumpkin festival was playing in the fountains. It was cold but they had fun trying to get as close to the water as they could and then running away from the water as fast as they could. Guess we should have made it over there more during the summer time.

Etta got squirted right up her pants leg

Waiting for the fountains to start up again...

getting a little more daring ...

run away, run away!

Zing, Zang, Zoom!

Is the Circus the Greatest Show on Earth? We sure enjoy going and keep going back each time they come. There may be a few other shows that are truly greater, however the elephants are the greatest part of the show.
We headed to the "Zing, Zang, Zoom" Circus this last weekend. Gibson was way into it the whole time. A few of his favorites where the zebras, dogs, elephants and Tigers. Etta enjoyed most of the circus. She loved the little doggies doing tricks and then once the elephants where gone she was out.

Mommy and Gibby just before the Circus started

Daddy and Etta waiting for the show to start

And the Circus begins!

The high wire act was right by us and that was a pretty cool act

The zebras where a favorite

Etta watching for the elephants

The Elephants did some pretty sweet little tricks

Them sitting so cutely

Tada!

Etta was done with the show before it was over.

Gibby making sure the circus was over

Ok, its over now for the smile

We will see you next time, Ringling Bros & Barnum and & Baileys Circus!