I love Halloween because it is the start of the holiday season! We have had a beautiful Fall and have been lucky that the weather stayed nice for Halloween. Someone must have been praying for that because it literally got 30 deg. colder the day after!

We always like to find fun things to do that are free, during the holidays and this year was no different. We went to a fall festival, a ward harvest party, an awesome haunted house Brett & Wendy did for their son's Eagle scout project and on a few nature hikes to see all the changing leaves and to count the deer. Side note on that is that I love that my kids love the outdoors and enjoy the same things that Jason and I enjoy! My little family ROCKS!

Some other fun activities were carving pumpkins with Annie and Ellie Bearden, the school parade and trick-or-treating with some of our friends. I should have taken a picture, but we literally had, almost a "kitchen size" garbage bag full of candy. After sorting all the candy in groups (as is tradition) Everyone got to pick 20 pieces + 10 more to be saved for movie nights, and the rest got taken to DI to share with all the workers. You may think, "Wow, how charitable" but it was only so I didn't have to have the temptation. There was really no "good will" intended.:)

The kids carved pumpkins with their friends and were so proud of them because they did them all by themselves. It was fun to see them work together. Lucky they now have "pumpkin carving" knives that aren't sharp like the kitchen knives we used to carve our pumpkins with as kids!

These are my boys with our Halloween "Eve" Dinner.

We have pizza night once a week and usually get Little Ceasers 5$ pizza but we splurged and got Papa Murphy's cool Halloween pizza. It was soooo worth it!:) YUMMY


Porter was a cool pirate again this year with some new "piraty" things to wear. All three girls were witches till Kailey decided that she didn't want to wear her hat, and "big sister" witches, turned her into a fuzzy, ladybug. I was a chef and had Aubrey be my "little chef" while we ran errands on Halloween. Jason decided to be a party pooper, and wore the costume to match. I love you honey, even if you didn't want to be matching chefs!:)