Halloween Thuggs

 For Halloween this year we all dressed as Mobsters and Flapper Girls.  Hanna and I visited youtube lots to perfect our Charleston dance moves while the boys had fun taking each other out with their tommy guns.  Hanna really got into her costume and wanted to learn all about the roaring 20's.  Joshy was the most spirited "gangsta" as evidenced in the looks he was pulling for the camera!!  He even had a 'real' black eye which seemed to make his costume even more realistic!   

 These Tommy Guns were so much fun......

 Cutest/littlest thug in the family of organized crime

Thank you to my family for indulging me and making this Halloween so memorable....I love you all!

CALLING ALL WITCHES!!

I'm sooo blessed to have Missy live near me now.  We go way back to Medical School where we moved into her ward in Maryland.  We were pregnant with our first kids together and both had boys.  Now that she is in Vegas, we have picked up where we left off and have had so much fun together.  Her and Melissa came up with this idea to have a "Witchy" party.  I thought it sounded fun and as always can't pass up a good "dress-up" party!! 

I was so excited to make the invites especially after I found the perfect potion bottles at JoAnns

The invite says: Double Double Boil and Trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Dust off your broom in costume clad fly on over or you will be sad.  For on this wicked night you are summoned, to come and join the witches coven!  Witches Night Out...etc. RSVP Millicent White or Glinda Chugg

Like mother, like daughter

Everyone helped bring food and wow it was yummy.  We had pumpkin cheescake, Pumpkin Black bean soup, Cheese tortellini soup, avocado bean dip, veggies, bruschetta, oreo truffles, decorated like eyeballs, and much much more. 

Missy lives in a different ward just a few miles away from us....so we have met each others friends and all have a lot of fun together.  We invited friends from both wards to come.  A lot of our pictures didn't turn out that great due to the fog machine, and black lights and colored bulbs in the lamps. 

Melissa, Missy and I stayed up super late the night before the party and decorated the place to the hilt.  This is Millicent posing in her Haunted House

These two are hilarious.  They came as rocker witches.  Emily and Melinda always liven things up a bit

Love you to pieces Millicent

Jen and Whitney bought toulle and made their skirts and then got tights to match.  They were adorable! 

So JaCoy is on the far right in this picture.  She is 8 months pregnant so on her tummy she made a vinyl white  skeleton wearing a witches hat. Isn't she so creative and cute?    If you notice the name tags on everyone its their witchy name they got to pick as they entered the party.   They had names such as Agatha, Lucinda, Hestia, Zelda, Ethel, Esmerelda, Sabrina, Elvira, Elphaba, Minerva, Dolores, and Phoebe to choose from.  I think I had the most fun just trying to research and find witchy names on the internet.  FYI  there are still 'real' witches out there with websites and covens to join if you are intersted Waaa- ha-ha-ha -ha!

Millicent spent a lot of time concocting up some brews and potions

I couldn't resist taking a photo with all of these awesome striped tights

Glinda sporting her black lipstick and inch thick purple glitter on her eyelids!

Missy's dress was amazing....very gothic and very realistic.  Is there something you need to tell us Missy??

Isn't Whitney adorable....underneath that itchy wig that she borrowed from CHER is hiding her long, beautiful, blond hair. 

Melissa helped put together our potion corner.  She found lots of these labels on line and then just added them to her bottles.  It turned out sooo cool.  Especially with the black light lit behind it. There was one with human flesh, one with dead man's toes, snake oil, vampire fangs, toad fingers, moon dust, eyeballs, and vampire blood!  Melissa also found these old time pictures on line of creepy looking people.  We covered Missy's family room wall collage with pictures of her family into a creepy display of oldtime pictures taped right over the top of the other frames.  Again, I think we had the most fun decorating and planning this party!

The waterfall Witches....aren't they cute!!  Great Job Missy on the vision of this totally wicked party!  We need to make it a tradition. 

This and That

While I was gone at a Relief Society Conference a few weeks ago, Joshy got his first black eye.  Jared had taken all the kids to Home Depot to get some errands done.  Joshy was playing 'man with no arms' and had both arms tucked away in his shirt.  When Carter backed up the cart he didn't see Josh and Josh couldn't catch himself.....so down he went eyebrow planted straight into the Home Depot floor.  Ouch.  The scratches on his forehead are from playing at a friends house and falling off the trampoline into the rocks.  You could say he's had a rough week !

 It did have good timing to go with his Gangsta costume!  Whenever anyone would ask about his black eye  he would correct them and say "you mean my purple eye!" 

 Instead of celebrating Halloween at the kids school this year, they celebrated Nevada Day....when Nevada became an official state.  They could only dress up in Western wear.  (And to think I tried to get rid of this green cowboy hat of Hanna's from a birthday party,  saying we'd never use it again).
Hanna's enjoying her 4th grade class this year.  Ms. Montgomery is such a dynamic teacher!

Cole baby turns TWO

 The Disney movie CARS is Cole's favorite show.  He can name all of the different Cars and almost always has one in each hand wherever he goes.  Thank you Daddy for making such a perfect and fun cake!

 When Cole first sat down to his cake, he kept taking one finger and dipping it into the cake and then licking it and then back at it again and again.  This guy definitely has a sweet tooth. 

 We adore our little guy!

 Grandma and Grandpa were here to celebrate with us.  They got a kick out of you licking the frosting off your finger over and over

 Cole wanted to open up all the Lightening wrapped presents first

 These plasma cars are a hot item on our street.  When we are out playing in the evenings all the little boys fight over these....so now Cole won't have to be a bully because he'll have his own. 

 Grandma gave it a shot....they are pretty cool because as you wiggle the steering wheel, then it propels forward on its own. 

Cole got this bigger lightening for one present, these lightening jammies, and a really fun talking train from Grandma Karyl and Grandpa Boyd.  He got some Lightening Mqueen books from Grandma and Grandpa Jackson.  He loved all the attention on him....he's had some practice since he's always the center of our families attention.  Love you BABY!

Staheli Farm Pumpkin Patch

Staheli Farms is one our favorite Fall activities to do.  We have started a tradition of going when Clark County Schools have a day off.  It happened to be a Friday this year.  The Farm opens up for us and we pretty much get the whole place to ourselves.  We had about 10 moms and 30 kids who showed up.  It is such a fun day there! 

These pictures aren't exactly in order.  This particular photo cracks me up.  Missy told me to throw my pumpkins into her wagon so we could cart them out to the cars in one trip.  I don't think she realized that my kiddos had picked very large pumpkins and that our wagon had a flat!  This is Carter Robinson, Carter, and Jake, all trying to push this lame wagon back to the cars!  I'm surprised no one ended up with a hernia!

I have to admit that Carter's pumpkin was my favorite this year.  I love how tall it was and blemish free

Some of our favorite things at the Farm were the tractor/ barrel rides, all the animals to pet and look at, the corn slide, Red neck trampoline, air powered tennis ball launcher and hayride to the pumpkin patch.  It was a gorgeous day.  We were thankful for that because it had rained all week and they weren't sure they'd be able to open up for us! 

Those silly bands sure are silly!   Mostly Hanna just collects them because they kind of bother her to have on her wrists

Cole was so cute trying to lift up all these pumpkins he thinks he's soooo big.

Jared joined us for part of the day, but had to be home for work in the afternoon.  He and Drew Johnson drove back together. 

Jake came back from the hay ride telling us that he had speared this butterfly on the end of his stick.  Come to find out he was just teasing and found it when it was pretty much dead.

The big boys: Carter Robinson, Wesley, Carter, Clark, Mitchell, and Owen

Here's where we started for the corn mazes.  They had four of them to explore.  What a fun group of kids and moms! 

Waterfall kids plus the Robinsons and Whites! 

I just loved this picture of this tractor so red against the blue sky and golden corn

Aynsley was checking out the Turkeys...I caught her on camera being so precious

The big girls: Paige Johnson, Aspen Allred, Katelyn Stuart, Mia Swasey, Sara Dustin, and Hanna in the back

Tractor rides here are always a hit with the little ones.....and the not so little  ones (hanna)

Hanna, Josh, and Kinzie

Cole is such a cutie....We love him to pieces! 

I've been meaning to post about Hanna's haircut.  She has  wanted to go shorter for a long time, but I talked her into waiting until after Beauty and the Beast Jr. (because whose ever heard of a short haired Belle?)  Its really cute on her, but it seems to make her look older which Jared and I don't want from our one little girl!  She likes the change too, but has already informed me that she wants to grow it long again (hooray for me!)