Oct- Week 4- Pumpkin Walk, Gardner Village, Campfire, Trunk or Treat, LPA Carnival, Carving, Trick or Treat, U Football

Friday we checked McKenna out of school an hour early and headed up to North Logan for their annual Pumpkin Walk.  Pretty sure the theme this year had something to do with Laughing/Jokes.  

Dumb and Dumber

Curious George and Hotel Transylvania

Back to the Future/Inside Out

Looney Tunes/all the cut outs

Going on a Friday afternoon was a great choice.  The weather was great and the crowds were minimal.  That night we spent the night in Mantua where we watched Maleficent with the kids and then Now You See Me once the kids were down.  

Saturday we hung out at the house, I cleaned a little, then we took a walk to the general store to get some treats. The baby girls fell asleep next to each other.  Too cute! 

Sunday we celebrated Webster family October birthdays.  

Monday we went to Gardner Village with cousins to hunt for the witches.  

Since his office is just a few miles away, Dan joined us for lunch!

Monday evening we were invited to a have a campfire with some neighbor friends and tell spooky ghost stories.  

Most of the stories were pretty tame.  However, we did have the kids wake up once each the next couple nights saying they kept thinking about spooky things.  

Tuesday, Ben said, "Look mom, I'm camouflaged." 

Bethany wore this sweater and shoes made by our home teacher's wife.  Too cute! 

Ben and his friend Henry built this in the nursery while I attended my Stake Relief Society Book of Mormon class.  

Tuesday night was our ward's Fall Festival.    

We dressed up as a Hawaiian tourist, a pumpkin, a girl pirate (which she changed to a Monster High girl), a bumble bee, and a boy pirate.  

We enjoyed a hot dog dinner, and spook alley sponsored by the youth, and then a trunk or treat.  

Funny story:  I decided to put on the Hawaiian stuff literally as we're loading the kids up in the car to leave for the Trunk or Treat.  During dinner Anna gave me a look up and down and said, "Hmm.  What you be costume for?  I be bumble bee."  I immediately had to write it down so I wouldn't forget just HOW she said it.  It was adorable.  

Wednesday I found Anna talking to her friends all lined up.  I took our van in for an oil change.  

Some cool lite bright creations from M and B--their names! We got the Bumbo out.  She's mostly stable in it, though she still leans a little. ;) 

Thursday both kids had Halloween parties at school.  In the evening we went to McKenna's school Fall Carnival.   We played almost every classroom game. 

Friday, the kids didn't have school and we had a coupon to Jump Around Utah.  So we went with the Winegar cousins and had a great time.  Anna was definitely timid but did about like I expected in the end.  The kids had a play date in the afternoon with the Alexanders.

Friday night, we finally carved pumpkins.  The kids each chose a design; three pumpkins for three kids.  However, they're still not very helpful, so we won't be carving as many next year. :) 

After carving, we watched Charlie Brown's The Great Pumpkin.

(The bottom picture is all the girls watching Frozen on a Sunday afternoon.)

Saturday we helped clean the church, did our house chores, and I worked on going through and changing out the kids' clothes for the changing of the seasons.  My sister came over to help pass out candy and be with Bethany while I took the girls trick or treating.  We went up the hill first and met up with the Alexanders. Even after mostly pushing Anna in a stroller, she was done after an hour and a half and stayed home with Pickle after that.  McKenna and I continued on with the houses down hill and finished up with a little gathering at the Moulton's.  I came home sooner than McKenna so I could feed Bethany and give Anna her bath (she had fun with some glow sticks--bottom right picture).

Ben opted to pass on trick or treating so he could attend the Utah black out game with Dan.  Nothin like some good father/son time!  Ben loved every minute of it!