**HALLOWEEN**

I'm just a little behind b.c here I am posting about Halloween. Oh, well. I've been having fun neglecting the blog and just living life. However, as my kids have been going through our blog books here at the house, I've realized that we all are missing out on the memories here in Utah. So, I'm gonna try to be more diligent.

Halloween in Utah happened on Saturday the 30th, not Sunday the 31st. Because Utah is more righteous (Zion, remember) and observes the Sabbath Day. Seriously, the whole state moves holidays around (except Christmas). The kids had fun carving pumpkins this year.

It was fun b.c we got dirt cheap pumpkins around here with all the farms. It was great.

The Finster and Huddy came over from some Halloween lovin just before they headed over to their grandma's for some trick or treating. So cute!

Reese and her girlie cousin Finley sitting pretty in their Halloween dresses and ruffle pants I made them.

The after pumpkin carving mess. Yum. I cooked the pumpkin seeds for the first time this year and I ended up the only one eating all of them. Everyone else hated them.

The kids ready to head out for trick or treating. Caden was Superman this year, Reese the Queen of Hearts and Gavin an Army soldier (for like the 4th year).

Of course it started raining like minutes before it was time to head out. So off they went with umbrella's getting wet and COLD in the 40 degree weather. UGH!

I got to stay home and pass out candy to the neighborhood kids and take some craptastic pics of the pumpkins on our porch. Christopher did a good job with the candles b.c they never went out and it rained all night.

School Halloween Parties - DE

Bear and I went to the kids Halloween Parade at school last Friday. This was particularly cool b.c at their schools in Texas costumes were not allowed. Here was Reese with her bff Cambree.

Gavin, an Army solider once again. So cute!

At Reese's school party I ended up at the reading corner for the reading station so I wasn't able to walk around and take pictures. However, it was fun and Reese was super cute.

Gavin's party I had a little more freedom to get some pictures while operating the spider hat station.

Edible witch heads. YUM!

Bingo.

Class photo spooky faces and nice smiley faces.

Witches Retreat

I had a girlie Halloween party - The 2nd annual Witches Retreat - and witch attire is required. I had planned on just putting a dinky little hat on but when Christopher saw all the ladies at the ward Halloween party wearing sweet witch hats, he wanted knew it was project time!

He took a day off of work (I know, huh, he's awesome) and spent all day with me (the kids spent 7 hours playing video games, I know, huh, I'm an awesome mom like that). We went to Hobby Lobby and the Fabric Center and got to work making a hat from scratch AND a witches cloak!

Christopher doesn't know how to take pictures, so I don't have one with me in my cloak.

I LOVE MY HAT! I've since decided that every year I will make a new hat with Christopher (b.c we had a lot of fun together) and I'm gonna take this tradition (and party) to Texas with me when we move back.

Heidi, Shayna, Alyse

Brooke, Kari, Alyse

Ashley

Our spooky treats.

Wand making.

Potion making.

Fun games to test our witchy skills.

The winner of the witches attire contest. I'm told I came in second in with votes. Whatever, April, I'm the winner!

All the Witches! SO FUN LADIES!!

Gavin's Bobcat

At Gavin's last pack meeting we didn't know what time it was...so we took this picture so my camera would tell us.

AND, Gavin was awarded his Bobcat! BOOYA! Now he is a full fledged Wolfe, baby!

And I got my Mom's Bobcat pin, pinned by my awesome son, G-man!

This is what Caden thought of the whole ordeal! And this kid NEVER naps! lol Congrats, Gavin!

Kinder-Bear n Reese

Reese's Kindergarten class has a Bear they call Kinder-Bear and during the school year every child gets a turn to take him home and then write in his book the things that they did together. Reese was lucky and her name was drawn on the night of our ward Halloween party. Reese was the Queen of Hearts and she even made Kinder-Bear a crown of his own to be the KING of Hearts.

She spent the afternoon riding her bike with him, changing his outfits and brushing his teeth (he has his own backpack with all these things) and ended the night like this:

It was so cute how serious she took her responsibilities with Kinder-Bear. It was also cute how clearly she loves this little Bear.