Costume Line Up

TWO fun-filled nights of TRUNK or TREAT at the church, and HALLOWEEN below:

BEST COSTUME??

We think goes to Logan, who after looking on line, this is what he wanted me to make him below. Can you even tell which is real and which is fake? ha ha.

Costume Line Up:

2 Cupcake Fairies (Lily & Sophie)

Box of Kleenex (Logan)

Witch (Emma)

Gone Gothic (Ashlin)

but what was Dallin???

ANSWER: UGH, I never got a great picture of Dallin! But he DID look cool, his whole face was painted BLUE (before the paint bugged him and he minimized to stripes)... him and his buddy both had name tag stickers on their blue shirts that said JEAN, they were a "Pair of BLUE Jeans" ha ha.

--SHORT ALERT--

This is Emma's buddy Makayla... who knew Emma would end up so short?? I think there is a full foot difference here:

Thank you to my sister Chrissy who saved me on Trunk or Treat night by helping while Bruce was out of town!!! (& helped Emma decorate her witch hat super darling & came over on Halloween night as well...)

---REAL HALLOWEEN NIGHT---

For real Halloween we rolled the commercial popcorn popper out front, put on our best Halloween tunes for the street and passed out popcorn! So many trick or treaters, what fun!

And the best part of the night was when Grandpa came!! At the end of the night the kids were all in the living room doing their traditional sorting/trading of the goods. They all know grandpa loves WHOPPERS, so while him and I talked out front Lily & Sophie kept running out to bring him all the WHOPPERS they found in their bags. So cute. (they also brought him all the Almond Joys they found, because of course everyone hates those, ha ha) Bruce was wonderful and put the kids in bed for me, and my dad and I stayed out front talking until 11pm.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

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Happy Halloween!

Carving Pumpkins

Sorry for the PG photo of Dallin shirtless above. We told him if he wanted a say in the design of the boys pumpkin, he had to help clean out the guts. It totally grossed him out, ha ha, (texture issues). Apparently, ditching the shirt helped him cope.

The kids woke up this morning to

baked pumpkin seeds on the counter from above... YUM!

DONT THROW THE SEEDS AWAY!

(Recipe below)

always some crying...

A Pumpkin Love Story:

Ashlin carved the girls pumpkin.

The End.

PUMPKIN SEEDS

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2 cups pumpkin seeds

1/4 cup salt

1 quart water

Wash seeds, bring above to boil 15 minutes

Drain and bake in pan 325˚ for 30 minutes

Halloweeeeeen

It's HALLOWEEN WEEKEND.... and we are all sitting around bored.

My sisters kids spent the night, so she can have new baby alone time.

Right now Emma & Lexi (AKA Lex-a-lee) are playing a game of LIFE, while I take pics of Hallween stuff... but Trunk or Treat's tonight!!

This year my kids have some cuuuute costumes!

TAYLOR SWIFT

For Ashlin and Vanessa's 16th birthdays SIX MONTHS ago... Rachelle and I bought them Taylor Swift concert tickets. I bought one for Emma too, she's a big fan. And my neighbor Cynthia has a daughter Emma's age... and since they were going too, we all went together with my sister Chrissy. Aaaah, so fun.

Emma sat by me and sang every word during the concert, she kept laying her head on my shoulder and it was such a magical night I kept getting tears in my eyes.

and ofcourse we... waited.... and waited....

in the longest line to by concert t-shirts!

Then finally headed up to the big show...

For the last song she sang "Love Story"... and was carried around the audience on this moving balcony. so cool. I was so impressed with the whole concert, she played multiple guitars, the banjo, the piano.

Then the after party was pretty hilarious too.... KNIX was there with a stage playing music. Everyone was just walking by... and I was like, HELLO friends, why are we walking by a potential dance party... so I made our group stop and dance. Emma asked if she could go on stage, and so we asked the guy in charge if her and Samantha could go up there. He said sure, they were so brave up there alone...

then before too long... TONS of kids joined them, they seriously started a rockin dance party up there. ha ha, it was awesome.

We laughed so much and the 8 of us ladies sang Taylor Swift songs all the way home, and I was just so thankful for a very talented young lady who can put on such a classy, yet fun and amazing concert to take these girls to! We will remember it forever.

Another little one

Look who I am holding... my newest little nephew

Trace Rex Brady

On sunday we left for church knowing my sister was in the hospital about to deliver a baby. During Sacrament meeting my sisters husband texted us a picture of Trace to announce he was born. I was crying because it was so cute to get the little picture in church. Then I cried cried when I saw his name. My dad's name is Tracy and I love my dad so much. When I saw my sister named their little boy after my dad I cried and cried. He's the sweetest grandpa and all the kids have a special place in their heart for him.

(grandpa Tracy below)

I went to the hospital right after church,

so precious...

And I got to be there when all my sisters kids came to meet their new baby brother...

Youngest babies of big families are so lucky. Because they are surrounded constantly by so many people who love them and think every little thing they do is the cutest-thing-ever.

And can it get any cuter that because Trace's middle name is Rex, we can call him T-Rex? Cutest.. nickname.. ever! Bruce and I begged Carrie to name him a "T" name with a middle name Rex for this very reason. I was honored she really did.

aaaaaaaaaaw, little T-Rex:

I love him already. How neat to have another little person in our family.