Our fun filled October

We went to HallZOOween at the Cincinnati zoo twice, two Halloween parties at playgroups, one night at the school, Shuley's party, fall festival trunk or treat with our ward, pumpkin carving party at our house, and the real trick or treating!
We got use out of our costumes.
We also hit a fun corn maze this past weekend that we found out about through groupon. That was a fun day out with the family.

Last bit of costume fun

I went shopping after Halloween and found a few costumes worth buying. So the kiddos had a fun night playing in some of them.


We have already seen brayden as a knight, but I didn't buy him a new costume so he put this on.

Jenalee is actually wearing a dragon costume I got for our new baby boy to be next year. The kids are attacking her!

Natalie is wearing her new pirate outfit and holding her sword. Just guess the total cost...would you believe 85 cents!! Best deal ever.

This was just a cute picture of Jenalee I decided to post.

Play group Halloween party

On October 27th, we had a Halloween party at our house for playgroup. It was a combined party with both of my play groups, so it was a fun and lively event!

Leah with Boo in matching outfits

We had the kids dressing up in costumes as optional(most did), we painted pumpkins (byop-bring your own pumpkin), feasted on a yummy potluck lunch, went on a trick-or-treat hunt, and then ended with frosting pumpkin cupcakes for dessert.

I bought washable paint this time!

Jenalee enjoying her cupcake

Yummy potluck lunch. Teah made the prize winning Jack-o-lantern pizza

Janae made the prize winning Witches hats calazones.

Faith made the prize winning Mummy dogs. They all won prizes for most festive food.

I took pictures of most families that came. Tania and her two mushrooms(daughters dressed as mushrooms and sons where mario and luigi for halloween) had to leave before I started taking the pics.

Sharon with daughter hollie and Janae with son Zak

Me and my crazy kids

Anna with Miles and Ashlee with Gavin below. Ashley won most festively dressed!

Alanna with daughter Kiera

Faith and Myra

Emily with Carter, Alexis and Brynn. We'll miss you when you move to Florida!!

Teah with her boys Dillan and drew. Congrats on your new baby girl!

What a fun day!!

Pumpkin Painting and Second Hall-Zoo-ween

We have been making the most of this October and cramming in lots of Halloween events so the kids won't feel gypped out of not actually trick-or-treating on Halloween(since it falls on Sunday this year).

We took time to paint the free pumpkins we got from the Frisch's pumpkin patch at the first hall-Zoo-ween. As you can see, Jenalee painted herself as well.

Brayden was doing great staying clean...until Jenalee helped him to too much brown paint!! Just when I thought it was safe to leave the room.

Natalie loved using every color and did a great job staying clean. The brown on her face is frosting from a cupcake.

For Hall-Zoo-ween last weekend the kids dressed up in themed costumes. Natalie was Snow White, Jenalee was Cinderella, and Brayden was a knight/prince. They had so much fun picking out their costumes and getting ready. Unfortunately Natalie did not let me brush her hair!

Natalie as Snow White posing before we go.

Our sweet Cinderella

Our brave and Noble Knight

The royal entourage before we go.

Brave Brayden fighting an evil foe.

Jenalee patiently waiting for him to defeat the evil foe.

We were able to get good parking at the Zoo, even though it took us almost an hour to get there(40 of which was on a few miles of freeway!). Traffic was atrocious!

Kids getting pumpkins

One sad thing was this week there was no icecream!! But the kids did still get cookies to enjoy. And silly bands that are always a hit!