Boo-tiful Prints

Today was a busy but good Sunday here at our house. I even managed to sneak in one of the many Halloween projects I've been wanting to do. I found this on Pinterest and loved it. Had to make one of my own. And the kids were all cooperative when it came to me painting the bottom of their feet for a print. It couldn't have been a more easy project. I even cheated when I went to Michael's for a canvas and bought a black one (who knew they even had those?) so all it was was white craft paint a little black paint for the eyes and some funky ribbon. Easy-Peasy.

It's fun, funky and something I'll be able to still cherish and display years from now.

Carved

We finally got around to gutting the 3 pumpkins we had gotten from Papa Kevin last night and finishing them up this afternoon, just in time for the rain tonight. This was a no pattern year. They turned out fairly well considering.

Of course Mike's is great. He saw a picture of one like this online and free handed the design onto the pumpkin.

Caleb drew out the design for his face and I free handed the Z monster for the Z boys.

The rain tonight seems to be ruining the trick or treating fun in the neighborhood but that's not stopping us from displaying these gems in the window.

Ouren Dynasty

Today we all dressed up and went to visit the workplaces. This year I am a Geisha, Mike and the boys were dubbed as Kung Fu Fighters. Collectively though, I like the ring of the Ouren Dynasty. We hit Mike's work first, then his Westminster to see some old co-workers and then onto my current office at SLCC and to visit Aunt Allison in her office there as well. It was a fun afternoon.

The best part was that instead of us asking for treats, we reversed it and gave out treats. What better to fit our theme than the fortune cookies I stumbled across at the party store this morning? And check out the cute purse I scored as well. Perfecto!

We hope you all have a good Halloween weekend and we can't wait to see pics of your families and little ones next week. Up next for us-Pumpkin Carving! Then trick or treating tomorrow night. Stay tuned for pics.

Halloween Night

This year we went a different route for Halloween night. My friend Wes invited us to go to a Utes game with him. We talked it over with Caleb and let him know that going to the game would mean probably no more trick or treating that night and he was totally fine with that (he did go 2 other times at different events) so off we went. We started off the fun with a little pre-game tailgating with Wes, his brother and his niece and nephew. We had some good food and Caleb got to play a little football with them. He deemed himself the referee. Although, every chance he got, he would still tackle Wes. :) Then it was game time. It was the blackout game so most people wore black and some of the customary red (of course). It got a little cold but with some bundling, we all managed just fine and the babes did suprisingly well given that they were still a little sick. The game started off a little rough but the Utes came back and won 22-10. Whoo Hoo! We have been invited back to another game next week. Mike chose to stay home with the babes for that one but Caleb and I are accepting the invitation and can't wait to do it all again. Thanks Wes!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday doing whatever you are doing today and tonight. I can't wait to see everyone's pictures and costumes! Post pics!

All Lit Up

Mike finished up the pumpkins. What a guy this year. All 5 pumpkins by himself. His is the raccoon in a jack o lantern and mine is the warewolf. They turned out cute. 2 days til Halloween!

My Carving Die-Hard

(long story before the pics sorry). This has been a rotten way to start Halloween week at our house. I have been sick off and on for weeks but Saturday and Sunday it really hit me hard. I have been in bed more than I have been up for sure. I ended up at the Dr office on Monday. It's some sort of upper respiratory infection. They prescribed me some meds and sent me on my way. Thankfully Mike was able to work from home all that day. It helped tremendously. I had called in sick to work that day and let them know I would be out the next day as well.
Yesterday was a day from Hell. I was still feeling rotten and Mike had no way to stay home again since there's an audit going on in his office. Caleb woke up at 4 am dry-heaving and had a small fever before school. We gave him some Motrin and he felt better so we took him to school. Mike went to work. Zaric got a small case of diarrhea and was just absolutely miserable all day. He spent most of the day screaming and taking small naps. Caleb then came home with a fever again and took himself straight to his bed for a nap. I was pretty fried. It's hard enough to care for sick kids but to do it while you yourself are sick is something else. So we were banking on Mike being able to come home a little early. Not only was he NOT able to sneak out early but actually ended up coming home 2 hours late! By this time I had really had it. I hadn't been able to take any of my cough medicine because it contains Codeine which will put me to sleep so I was coughing up a storm and ended up making myself sick in the process and having to take some anti-nausea medicine the Dr prescribed instead. There was no way by then I was even thinking about dinner so I got online and ordered some pizzas to be delivered. We waited the normal 40 minutes or so for them to arrive I paid the delivery man and got the kids ready to eat just in time to open the first box and see that one of the pizza's was completely wrong! Luckily the other one was right so I started the kids eating and called up Pizza Hut. The man on the phone was pretty apologetic and said he'd get me out the right pizza right away. Well that meant at least another 40 minutes. It was after 5 by now (Mike was still at work) and it had been a very long day. When I called Caleb upstairs to have some dinner I could feel the heat coming off him and took his temperature again, It was over 103! I lost it and broke down into tears and began calling Mike over and over until he answered his work phone. By then he was finally able to come home an relieve me. He came home in time for the 2nd pizza delivery and we ate and I finally took my cough meds and went to lay down. He was so calm about everything, it really took a load off and when I came downstairs a while later for a glass of water, this is what I found. It made the day all better, so I had to snap some pics before I went back to bed.







He finished all 3 of the boys and got his gutted and started pretty well. Mine is still waiting and that's just fine by me. Here's the boys'. Caleb's is on the left. He's pretty proud of the design and came upstairs to tell me that he drew it on with a marker all by himself.

There's more to this story though (hence the Die-Hard title). This year we weren't even going to carve pumpkins. You see, we are doing something different this year and won't be home on Halloween night so I really felt like we had no reason to carve them if we weren't going to be here to light them. And leaving them on our sidewalk unlit that night is just asking for trouble. So I had called carving off, but Mike insisted. It is tradition after all. But now I am glad for his stubbornness and happy that he spent that time with the boys last night and that I got a break. Sometimes it's nice to have a Die-Hard around. Now he gets to finish his and work on mine tonight. :)

Boo at the Zoo 2009

We love going to Boo at the Zoo for Halloween every year. This year was no exception and we also had awesome weather for it so it worked out well with minimum bundling required early this morning. We got several compliments on our costumes (especially my Leia buns and the Ewoks) and we got to see some fun stuff along with Trick or Treating at the booths.
Here is Darth checking out a Horned owl up close.


And posing with the Got Milk cow.

And destroying the big dog with his light saber.

Trick or Treating. Who's that handsome Jedi?

The Zaric Ewok hanging in the stroller.

Zaden Ewok. I got a smile out of him but he kept turning his head just right so the hood was over his eye.

Hanging out

We got the see the new baby giraffe and the baby elephant.

There were so many cute costumes there. Here are a couple of our favorites. Mike stopped these two and asked them for a pic. We also saw a Mario and Luigi brother duo.

And the dancing snowflake. There were 2 of these dancing around. They said the costumes themselves weighed about 25 lbs. I would never want to wear them but they were awesome to look at :).

It was a fun morning. Next up is a friend's Halloween party tonight. Stay tuned.

The Last Few Haunting Years

For Caleb's first Halloween he dawned a giraffe costume. He was also a monster with this cute outfit Grandma Nette got him.

Next year he was a Little Knight. This is where we picked back up on the family themes and Mike and I joined our Little Knight as a Musketeer and a Bar Maid.

The next year we were Potato Farmers for our little Sack of Taters.

And the following year it was time for a little Flintstone action with Bam Bam, Barney and Betty.

And Last year we all saw the letter of the law with Policeman Caleb running the show. We also had the addition of the twins to join our group.

And Drumroll...This year it's Star Wars! Caleb is Darth, I am Princess Leia, Mike is Obi Wan and we have 2 little Ewoks. Can't wait to show these off at a Friends party this weekend!

Halloween is almost here! What are your little ones going to be?