Thursday, November 3, 2016

Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialize

Our family loves Halloween, costumes are picked out months in advance (Matt has planned his next two years worth of costumes) and Christian has even started planning some new yard decorations for next year. We love the fall weather and the traditions that come with the holiday..both old and new. 

This year we started our Halloween kick off with a new tradition- Boo Lights! 


We have gone to Zoo Lights at Christmas time for several years now so this was a fun change to do something to celebrate Halloween with our family and several thousand of our closest friends. We even lucked out and had a very pleasant night weather wise.

One of our favorite traditions is the Bradley Family Scary food party. It is fun to get together in costumes and enjoy Blood Soup, Witches Fingers, and several other spooky food.

The next week we went to the Bellamy Family Scary food party. This time we dined on monster loaf and mummy dogs. 


The best activity of the month (at least in the kids' opinion) is our neighborhood Trunk or Treat. This year they added a chili cook off to the party! The kids loved going to all the cars, some of them even got visited three times! 




We added a pumpkin patch into the traditions this year. The kids had fun catapulting apples and picking out the best pumpkins they could find.



On Halloween I we went to two Halloween Parades, I was just grateful they were at two different times!  James was a sneaky ninja and sneaked right past me. 





We saved our pumpkin carving for Halloween afternoon, not sure we are going to do that again it was a crazy. 






Then it was off for a fun night of Trick or Treating! 



So that was our Halloween, oh and if you are in need of any chocolate please let us know, we have an abundance. 


Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Eve is 12

Our sweet and caring Eve has now turned 12! I can't believe it. She is such a sweet and caring young woman who looks out for others and is so loving. Abby and Matt adore her and she makes up games to play with them. She is a fabulous artist and enjoys learning new crafts, this year she has picked up knitting and has knit us several dish cloths and is not working on an afghan. She also still has a crazy love for washi tape and has decorated her room to demonstrate her love. 

Eve decided to have a board game birthday party this year and since the best board games only allow for 4 people we had a pretty small party. They had fun though with pizza, pudding cups, marshmallows, cucumbers, and cupcakes...all Eve's favorites. 



The girls had a fun night, lots of giggling and lots of fun. It was a fun night. 

Eve decided to skip the cake this year and chose instead a homemade French Silk pie. We were still able to get 12 candles on there so that was fine with us! 



On our recent trip to St. George, Eve started learning how to play the ukulele, she loved it so much she asked for one for her birthday. It is fun to hear the strumming come from her room as she learns more. She is just a talented girl. 



We love you Evie! Thanks for being such a wonderful girl.