Halloween 2011

It's been way to long since i have blogged but with the move, ridge and Nathans birthday, Halloween, our wedding reception and Christmas i just haven't found the time to blog. 

in September we moved to ASU family housing and kept busy juggling Nathans school schedule me working nights a couple times a week and unpacking. we unpacked pretty fast but its always those random boxes that seem to take forever. around the same time we were busy planning our reception and making everything for that since it was a DIY reception so those random boxes got shoved in the corner and left for a good month, out of sight out of mind right?

we celebrated Ridges birthday Oct. 5th with our family of 5, Nathans mom, sister and her son Jax with Teppanyaki (The kids fave) and cake for desert. Nathans Birthday was just 2 days later so we really just combined the two. we may have done a dinner or something but to be honest i don't really remember.

our reception was Nov. 26th, the weekend after thanksgiving and we stayed really busy with that but i will save that for another blog when we get our pictures back .

for now i will just leave you with some pictures from Halloween.

we went to Schneph farms with the kids and they had fun as always. they all rode the rides and this year they decided to go on the roller coaster. At around that time we were the only people there so it was nice not having to stand in line. the roller coaster was small and looked very child friendly. boy was i wrong!!! maybe it was because we were the only ones on it or maybe looks can be deceiving, either way, that thing was scary. jazzy cried. even though Ridge wasn't crying he was scared poopless and Jayvin was having the time of his life.  I may or may not have screamed myself.

 we have made it a tradition the last couple years to make the kids costumes. with the exception of Ridge because Rick and Anna have bought his two years in a row as a birthday present. this year Nathan and i made all three of them.

This isn't a random picture. Nathan told Jazzy to find him a costume from their dress up box. she came back with this flower hat. Nathan being his witty self told her he was a "daddy-lion" he cracks me up. He didn't actually wear it though.

 we let them pick out what they wanted to be. Jazzy picked an angel. she was excited to wear make-up for the first time. daddy wasn't thrilled but he had to admit how stinkin cute she looked!! (notice the naked-ness. Like i promise in all my other blogs i swear my kids have clothes, they just hate wearing them at home)

 we bought one big foam pumpkin from the craft store (at $10 each i couldn't fathom spending $30 on pumpkins) this year we have began a new tradition. the kids get to pick a picture and carve the pumpkin themselves. this is why we decided on fake pumpkins that way we can set them out every year and hopefully be able to look back at them and see how the kids imagination have grown over the years. I'm sure as they get older we will buy individual ones but for now one sufficed. it was easier to have the kids draw the object on paper and then i traced it onto the pumpkin and Nathan carved it.

Jazzy drew a cat and what a lovely cat it is!

 this is Ridge's. not sure what it is but he did a great job!

 Jayvin decided that the pumpkin just wasn't a pumpkin without a face, so a face he drew.

I guess I fibbed, We didn't make Ridge's costume, I completely forgot till i got down to this picture, he insisted on wearing one of his dress up costumes. We made a robot costume for Jayvin which i think came out really cute. He went around the whole night saying that he had "Home Depot" legs. My favorite part of his costume are the two round push lights on the front of him. I joked that he was "flashing" me when he turned them on. at the bottom are just some light switches. 

I let the kids pick out a costume for mommy and they said "bunny" so a bunny I was. They actually had ears and tail already in their dress up stuff so that was easy.

this was the first year they have gone trick or treating. we usually stay home and hand out candy since we normally take them to Schneph farms, of the Halloween events they have at church. But there aren't many kids that do trick or treating around here so we went to ASU family Trunk or Treat to do our trick or treating and then went to a neighborhood to look at haunted houses which the twins wanted nothing to do with it but Ridge had a blast. 

one blog done.... way to many to catch up on!