Trick or Treat 2017

If you asked, half of our family would say Halloween is not their favorite holiday. Ansley and I like it; Layne is wavering depending on his mood; Garyn and Daddy would both say its their least favorite! None the less, everyone participates and we enjoy it!

Garyn chose Luigi; Ansley chose Mal from Descendants and Layne eventually chose a blue Power Ranger. He had at one point wanted to be Luigi like Garyn but changed when he saw all the options.
Next year, we will start looking for costumes earlier because we have some issues finding what everyone wanted! We thankfully got Ansley's in the mail the day before she had to wear it to school. And then Garyn's had to be hemmed because it was a man's size!

To start, the kids got to dress up at school the Friday before Halloween as a fundraiser. Emma rode with us that morning so we had almost the whole crew! Layne was not going to be left out!

In fact, Layne had been wearing his costume quite often. It was so funny to look in my rear view and see a blue Power Ranger!

The kids also painted pumpkins for the school contest. Ansley wanted Mal just like her costume and Garyn wanted a world with an Eagle (school mascot). Layne, again, couldn't be left out and painted a monster with eyes that were crying, he said.

We had a church get together and all the kids wore their costumes. We love our new church (not so new anymore but since last blog posts it is!) The kids all enjoy getting together and playing.

Probably can see Ansley wasn't Mal here. She got the red fish headband from a teacher at school and decided she wanted to wear that instead. I had to figure out the rest! Just never know with Ansley!


Halloween night, we went to some friends' house that live in a big neighborhood near by. We have been trick or treating there the last couple years and its impossible to get to all the houses even! Which makes for lots of candy!

The boys got tired of walking pretty quickly. They decided it wasn't worth the candy, haha! Brinkley hitched a ride some too!

This last one is on here because we got a good laugh out of it! We went to see Nana and Poppa Halloween night and they had their Halloween lights on and had put a Christmas tree up with the lights on. To make it funnier, Tyler had announced that Christmas music would start playing on the radio earlier that night. He and Nana love Christmas and are ready to celebrate!

Also, sorry about all the video ones. Its not actually a video put has the short motion on my phone when looking at it so the computer is reading it as one. I will have to figure that one out!

Halloween Festivities

We are rolling right into this busy Holiday season! As always, it all comes so quickly and passes before you get a chance to soak it up. So here's to documenting Halloween before its New Years and I've forgotten the little details! (Plus, its Thursday and I'm home alone!)

Two weeks ago we went to a pumpkin patch called Old McDonald's Farm in Sale Creek. Its a great place to do lots of typical fall activities, like hayride, corn maze, etc. But you know all that so here's the pictures of the fun we had.

(Emma, Kadie and Philip joined us.)

 

 

                                                                     "Hay maze"

Critter Barn

 

Slide, love that smile and Ansley in the back :)

 

 

"corn pit"

 

Horse back riding ;)

 

 

Emma had the best ride of all

 

                                                          My 2 favorite pumpkins!

and a Hayride to pick real pumpkins.... :)

 

Philip, Kadie and chunky Emma! We laugh because she is catching up to Ansley's weight fast!

Pumpkins make a great seat apparently

 

 

Now that you have been bombarded with pictures...........let me give you some more....

 

Garyn and Ansley had Halloween parties in their classes at school wearing their costumes.

 

 Garyn was Sonic and Ansley was an owl

 

 

She did very well in her costume. Acted as if it wasn't even there; I was a bit surprised but happy. Garyn still doesn't like to leave his own!

 Owl gotta get their energy!

 

Garyn, I mean, Sonic had to get his energy, too, to run super fast. As you can see, he didn't have his complete costume on. I was just glad he wore it when he did! I thought the day was going to be a disaster because he fussed so much about putting it on. Thankfully, once we were there he got excited about everyone else's costumes and did great.

Now for Halloween night:

 

Off to Trunk or Treat at church

 

Garyn and his best bud, Aiden......I mean Spiderman

 

Playing games

 

Ansley had a blast in the toddler area!

 

And lastly we came home and got to see the little lady, Emma

 

Ansley was super thirsty after all that candy! She had to have a piece at every house/trunk. Isn't Emma just adorable!

 

 Well I have had to hide candy from Ansley all day. She is a chocoholic to say the least. Garyn loves it, too, but is easily swayed and deterred.

 

Very fun times ahead as the holiday season begins!