Halloween Weekend

I bought this Minnie Mouse costume last year for Kate to wear, but she didn't want to wear it. She was happy to wear it this year to the Halloween party at church.

I am so happy that the race car costume fit Zach! It looks like he'll be able to wear it next year, too if he wants.
The kids had fun playing games at the party. Here is Zach playing the pumpkin roll relay race. The kids also played the fishing game where they would fish and get to keep whatever they caught. They couldn't see what they were getting, so it was always a surprise to see what they caught. They also went into the dark room to find glow in the dark bugs. FUN! Noah came home with a toy motorcycle, which he calls a scooter. He LOVES his scooter.

We fit in pumpkin carving and sticker faces before the party. Kate put 3 different faces on her pumpkin.


Matt and Emily carved a pumpkin together.
Noah made a sticker face for his pumpkin.
Awww, look at the cute lion! Noah didn't wear the lion costume for anyone to see, but he did let us put it on him to take a picture.
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus
Our awesome primary children. I didn't get individual pictures of Emily and Eleanor. Emily went as a witch to the party and Eleanor was a ninja.
This spoiled puppy is eating table food!
I had to join in the costume fun!


We had Branch Conference on Halloween. In primary, we had our first run through for our primary sacrament meeting presentation. It went well. We had a potluck luncheon after church with the stake leaders. I missed the luncheon because I was in a primary meeting, but I did get some chili and yummy pull apart bread to eat. When we got home, the kids were able to earn candy by answering church related questions. They thought it was a lot of fun and several of the kids wanted to continue answering questions after they were full of candy.

My Mom bought the kids a pumpkin pinata to break during FHE last night. We did this pinata outside and Matt made an awesome pinata stick. The stick was so awesome that Emily (without being able to see) hit the pinata on her last try just right and broke the pinata in half. Zoe was so bummed because she didn't get a turn at the pinata. We let her try to hit the rest of the pinata down. We laughed because she got turned around and started swinging at Matt. We thought she was getting back at him for not getting a real turn. :-)

Noah
Kate
Zach
Eleanor. Matt guided the kids to know where the pinata was and then they were on their own.




The kids didn't go trick or treating on Halloween this year, but they did end up with a lot of candy. Candy that they like and candy that shouldn't be around for very long. Matt is really hoping that is true!