Be careful what you wish for........

because you might end up looking like this on Halloween Night It all began October 5th with the Photo Halloween Party (pictures in header) then dressing up in Halloween costumes and Painting Pumpkins in Delta (pictures in previous posts). At this point we are still going strong. Then we made Haunted Houses out of cereal boxes for FHE on the 19th. As you see, this is when things started to falter (it is not compleated). On Sunday we got a little bit more ambition again and made Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin cookies for neighbors, BUT we ended up throwing them away because we were just too worn out to deliever them. Well this is just the begining. The whole next week we had a Halloween party or function almost every day of the week!


Neighborhood parties



Ward Parties


School Parties


The cake walks were a favorite at all the parties for Emery this year.



Well, we had so much fun before Halloween this year that on Friday we said, WE ARE JUST HALLOWEENED OUT as we dragged our giant pumpkins (eagerly awaiting to be carved) to the car!!!! I know, I know, you are all probably thinking WHAT!!! the holiday and party weirdos burnded out??????????? Yes, I am sad it say, it was true. BUT we were recharged again on Halloween morning. We had a full day planned out. For breakfast we had Monster omlets. Then we were off to This is the Place Herritage Park for the Little Haunts with some great friends. Which I am going to do a different post on. It was tons of fun and I got A LOT of Pictures!!! But here is a little video for peeks
. We were going to take a little break for nap time and carving pumpkins (sense we pooped out on Friday) then head off to Trick-or-Treating and dinner/Utes game/Halloween get together with the same friends in the evening (Which we were REALLY looking forward to). BUT now we're back to the begining of my post.
Tim started feeling down during our "break" and ended up sick on Halloween Night! So we had to cancel with our friends and sat around at home all night. We didn't even pass out candy because Tim had touched it all and we did not want to spread anything by chance! So I guess we got what we wished for. Halloween OUT!!!
Needless to say we had a FABULOUS month of Halloween activities and we learned some important lessons:
Be careful what you wish for and
Maybe you really can have too much of a good thing.
So I hope you all had a fun, safe, and healthy (I might add) Halloween!

Piglet, Winnie the Pooh, Tiger, and Christopher Robin
Oh and if you were wondering how our Jackolanterns turned out here they are....

(Still not finished) Guess sometimes you just can't do it all.

Trick or Treat

How about BOTH!!!!!!!!
Well that is what we got this week BIG TIME!!!!
For the TRICK
We have a new addition to our family and Emery is learning a new trick of playing randomly on it while imagining she is in a grand hall playing for a queen or something (imaginations are great). We have thoroughly been enjoying this new addition. It is and will be very special to us for it comes with a LOT of memories and stories! I could not even begin to share them all but to sum it up: it was given to my mother by her grandmother when I was very young and played on and loved by many. It has now been past on to me and my children. It reminds me of that song, The Touch of The Masters Hand, where the old violin was considered worthless until the master played a song from within and the bids started to rise. The only difference is in this case this piano has not always been played on by masters (a few like Nikki) but from little girls playing from their hearts for their great grandmother sitting near by or their mother while working in the kitchen. It may not be worth as much as other pianos or sound as great but it is truly loved and appreciated in this household and will always be cherished. Thanks mom and dad!
As for the TREAT......
My parents were able to come and see us at the beginning of last week (to bring the piano and for a wedding). I am so grateful for the role they play in my life! They are amazing people and I love being around them. It is wonderful having great examples in life to look to and the great support they are to us!
We also had Cami (my sister) and Brandon come stay with us toward the end of last week as well. They are always so much fun to be around and some of my favorite people to visit with. It seems like Cami and I end up talking and laughing away in one room while Tim and Brandon have deep intriguing conversations in another. It was so fun to see Duncan. He has grown so much and has such a sweet special little spirit! Emery and Kaven loved to see them as well. We were SO LUCKY to have a week full of GREAT people in our home! I sure love my family! Our Halloween if fulfilled with all these tricks and treats. Who needs "Trick or Treating" when you have experiences like this! I guess it just adds to the joy of it all! Happy Halloween!

Halloween is great for.....

Visiting Old Haunted Houses

We went to Manti for the Daughters of Utah Pioneers where they were honoring Tim's great,great,great grandpa. We visited a lot of the old houses, a cemetery and had lunch there (the house are not really haunted that I know of, but really cool).






Playing Dress-Ups in costumes from Halloweens Past

While in Delta we pulled out the Halloween costumes from Tim's childhood. Emery had a blast dressing up in all kinds of things like a witch, bat, batman, ghost, ect.
Painting Pumpkins

A friend of Tim's mom gave us some pumpkins to paint. Of course we jumped on that! Emery went to town on hers.





Visiting Spooky Rocks

Brady had a great idea to load up the Truck and take the motorcycle to a dormant volcano near Delta and the Lacy Curtains (pictured above) We had a BBQ and did lots of exploring. GREAT FUN!
Being surrounded by pumpkins

Just thought this picture was cute. Emery actually set all those pumpkins around him. Paula painted these and they are darling.

Halloween's Coming........

I just LOVE the holiday seasons!!! I always get so excited about putting decorations up around my house and making costumes. But this year I didn't have my Halloween decorations, because of the move they are in storage. So I decided to put more effort into my blog. SO MUCH FUN!

Luckily I have a great friend who is a professional photographer( Ravenberg Photography )that threw a Halloween Party and took quick pictures of all the kids. She mostly does Weddings and Engagement pictures so she was nice enough to deal with our wiggly uncooperative kids! THANKS BECKY! Your the best!

I think Emery's costume this year was the most fun one I have made. It is probably because she was SO EXCITED about it. When we got the material at the store she spent the rest of the shopping trip sitting in the cart rubbing the material on her face. And each time I got a piece of it done, she would try it on and get so excited. Man, holidays are fun with kids! Sorry to say I did NOT make Kaven's costume, I got it from a friend and it was still brand new with the tags on it and everything. Plus he just looked so dang cute in it, so I couldn't pass it up. :) Anyway, I know this is a silly picture to post of Emery but I just thought it was cute because that is just how she is when I try to get pictures of her (Not looking, or playing with something else.) Then there is Kaven so easy to please. Got to love it! Happy Halloween!

Brady's Vist Part 2: Capital Building

We asked Brady if there was anything he wanted to do while he was in Salt Lake City and he said he wanted to walk around Temple Square. We thought about that then remembering it was conference weekend decided against it. Save it for another time when it is not so busy. So then he decided he wanted to see the State Capital Building. So off we went.




I could not believe this building. It was way bigger than I thought and beautiful!!!! Emery thought it was pretty cool too! She just wanted to play on those fancy stairways the whole time. Maybe some day she will make a movie like entrance on them in a beautiful gown! :)
But I would prefer to keep her as she is now. Cute, messy face, sing, dance, hop skip around everything, with the occasional tantrum! Sure love my girl!

Brady's Vist: Part 1 "The Hike"

Some weekends are just meant for being lazy, eating and staying in your p.j.'s all day. Conference Weekend is one of those weekends. Except this Conference weekend we has a extra special treat.
Tim's brother Brady came and spent the whole weekend with us and we had a blast eating TONS of food, playing, and watching conference. In between and after sessions though we tried to do some fun things.One of the things we did was go on a walk through some neat neighborhoods by our housing and we found this awesome park in the middle of it all. It felt like we were in the mountains hiking all of the sudden. Then the trail ended and all of the sudden we were in the city again. On our "hike" we played around with the camera posing and laughing in between shots. Brady is so much fun! So these are some of our goof around pictures. I think I laughed the most with this one. Tim kept making Brady walk back and forth to get another shot of him walking down the trail. I think he walked that same little part like 5 times.

I'm a Mean Old Witch

Yes, I know it is still September and I did not mean for this to happen before October came around, but we get into the Holidays at our house and are a little anxious. I guess it turns out that our daughter got those genes from us because she is the one that got it all going this time. It all started when we got the play dough out to play with. She wanted to play with black and she wanted me to play with orange. First she asked for help to cut out a pumpkin with one of the cookie cutters (which is actually an apple cookie cutter). Then she said she was making a witch and wanted some help. So of course I could not resist. I started teaching her this song. She caught on about the third time and could sing it all the way through by herself. If you notice, she is a little distracted doing the actions of the song with the play dough witch, so she needed little promptings from me. She is my music child. I am told that she knows all the songs at Nursery and sings the loudest. This does not surprise me because I know she LOVES IT at home and has been that way sense she went into Nursery in Cedar City at 16 months (I was one of the Nursery Leaders).
So here we are in September making Halloween characters and singing Halloween songs. What the heck! Here is a preview of Kaven's costume while we are at it!Let's get the holidays rolling. Once you start it is just too hard to stop! :) Happy Halloween Everyone! :D