Flashback Friday

Since I've been so bad at the blog this year...I thought I would do a "flashback" on fridays to get me back up to date :) (thanks for letting me seal the idea Carol)

I'll start with

HALLOWEEN 2009

sometimes I go a little over the top with Halloween (or other holidays)...this year was one of those times...

We had eyeball sandwiches and witch blood for breakfast...

Worm burgers, guts, and bat wings for lunch...

and leg bones and mummy pizzas for dinner...


Then there were the costumes...I decided to go for a family theme...the idea seemed simple in my head, but it took HOURS to do. We did look cute though...

We also won the 5th ward costume contest (a WHOLE bag of snickers :) my kids were thrilled...I would have been more thrilled if they hadn't learned this year that snickers were good :)

Here are some individual close ups...
Thomas


Michael


Robert (check out the drool)


And last Dave...I think we wore him out...

...but he really did have a good time (what a good sport)

This year we are possibly going away for Halloween and picking costumes out of the box...I need a year off :)

The Great Pumpkin Patch

We've had a lot of fun watching our garden grow this year. A few weeks ago we noticed that the pumpkins were doing really well (considering last year we got about 5 pumpkins the size of cantaloupes). We've all been really excited to watch them turn orange and see how big they were getting.

In fact we were amazed at how many there were and how big they were. I tried to take a picture of the patch the other day, but it didn't really do it justice.

But last night, we picked all the pumpkins and put them in a big pile.

HOLY COW!!! Can you believe all those pumpkins!! Thomas' face looks quite thoughful in all of these pictures...truly, he's thinking of how much money he's going to make because we told them they could set up a stand in our front yard to sell pumpkins!! They're so excited :) (of course they get to have first pick!!)

So if you need any pumpkins, come up our way...the rates are cheap and the salesmen are cute!!

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!! Hope your's was as fun as ours!! (and hope you all post pictures so we can see!!) Now quick, while the kids are asleep...go find your favorite candy from their bag and enjoy it :)