It was a Spooktacular Halloween

I love Halloween. I love the smell in the air, the excitement, the costumes, the kids, the candy, just about everything. It is a time to be silly and spend time with family.
This year my day was a little insane so the kids pics turned out sad but at least you can get the idea.

The kiddos!

Scary Guy

Alex
for Wizards of Waverly Place

Little Bo Peep

Little Sheep

Ellie May from the Hillbillies with all our hillbillies

Silly inmate and Raggedy Ann

Werewolf and the Witch

firemen, fairies, scary guy, Alex Oh my...

The Pack



Batman, Grizzly Fan, Jim Halpert, Stick Figure

Stick Figure

We had so much fun this year. We got the pumpkins carved. We ate soup, bread sticks, cookies, donuts, and witches brew. We went trick or treating and everyone except the Grinch's dressed up. I will have to say all of the costumes looked great this year. In fact if I had seen my dad on the street I would not have known it was him. Brynn, and Grandpa Gene made me laugh. Mama and Grandma Jan were to cute for words. Tara always gets festive and does something cute. Michael really does just look like Jim Helper (from The Office). The kids all looked so cute. I wish I had had more time to take better pictures of them.

puMpKin pUmPkiN

We love to come up with fun things to carve and this year we felt like we needed to do easy rather than hard due to the time frame we were under. For doing easy I think they turned out really cute.

Of course Boo got one that said "Boo"

JJ carved his all by himself. He did two wolves howling at the moon. (He carved 3 wolves but one fell off when he was taking out part of the pumpkin.) The back even has a moon.

Ellie still loves her cute happy pumpkin.

Emma carved and drew hers out.

Emma, Boo, Ellie, Mom, JJ

Jeron carved out Ellie's and part of Boo's. He was working hard the whole time and that is why he didn't do one for himself. He knew he would be a busy boy even without one. I think they turned out great.

cRaZy cArvErS

This year we actually carved pumpkins on Halloween. It was a lot of fun as usual except for the parts that weren't.
Jeron is the super carver in the home. I really wish he had done his own because it always turns out so good. He did carve Ellie and part of Elsie's though.

These two did their own this year. Emma even made her own pattern with some help from JJ and Mom. We all love to put our hands in the guts but no one more than these two.

Ellie was having a blast playing in the guts

Boo thought we were ridicules to put our hands in all that goop. She wouldn't have any part of it. Silly little princess.

If you are wondering why I didn't get a pic, well we were doing this before the day began. I looked worse then the gutted pumpkin. I was there I just didn't have time for my glamor shot of the day:) Pumpkins will come in the next post.

The Many Faces of Ellie

This year Ellie not only got to dress up for Halloween but for two school parties and a carnival. She had a lot of fun getting dressed up for her parties, but the funnest part for her was going to them and eating all the treats and playing all the games.

This is Ms Marilee the Witch and Ellie the Utah Cheerleader.

Ellie loves her preschool with Ms. Marilee. She got all dress up and had a blast being a cheerleader. On the way home she was cheering the whole way home.

Dorothy

Ellie is in two different preschool's. When I picked her up her teacher told me that Ellie was so cute decorating the cookie. She said "Ellie really likes her frosting." Icould tell it was all over her costume.

Little Bo Peep on Halloween night

Ellie loved her Bo Peep costume. She didn't want to take it off. I am glad she loved it since I spent a lot of time making it. She looked so stinken' cute in it. Ellie had a wonderful time this year. She loved running from house to house to get all the yummy candy she could. I love that when she got the candy she would always sign thank you to the candy giver.

cArNiVaL fUn

The kids were all excited to get dressed up and go to the school carnival. I took a quick picture of the kids.

Dorothy, Froggy, Dead Cheerleader, Dracula

Jeron got home the kids went running outside to get in the car and JJ realized he forgot something so he turned around to run in the home and ran smack into Boo. Boo fell back and smacked her head on the pavement. She let out a scream and then the noise stopped. Jeron hollers to me to come to them. Boo has passed out from holding her breath. It was a very creepy thing. Her eyes were rolling back in her head. I immediately took the binkie our of her mouth and that seemed to help some. We went back in the house and called the doctor. He told us just to watch her. We were worried but I also have a brother that did the same thing when he was little and was just waiting for the day that Boo would actually pass out. She has always held her breath so I knew it was coming. We called her doc because she did hit her head hard. They told us to just keep an eye on her. So we did. All is well with Boo. We went to the carni and the kids had a blast.

It was a great wallet raper but the kids had a great time. I guess that is what matters most?

Pumpkin Patch

The Family night before Halloween we always go to the pumpkin patch to pick out or pumpkins that we will carve. The kids love it. This year was no exception. We all picked out a pumpkin that was perfect for us. (except Grinch Jeron who decided not to do one this year)Emma always takes the longest to decide and JJ is always the fastest and biggest.

JJ was in charge of the wheelbarrow.
His is the big one.

Emma finally found hers. It has to be
round, all orange, and tall.

Ellie was very happy with hers and gave it a kiss.

Elsie's pumpkin got picked for her but she still loves it.

Ahhh so sweet.

After picking the pumpkins the kids ran through the hay maze.

In the middle of tag it is hard to get a picture.

Ellie was on the move but stopped for mom to get a quick shot.

THis girls isn't stopping for anyone.

It was another fun year at Pack's Pumpkin Patch.

Now on to carving and trick or treating. Oh don't you just love Halloween. Happy Haunting.

yUck iS thAt a....

I was going to put a clip away and noticed Emma had left the lotion out on the counter. When I put the bottle back I noticed something in it. One of my hairs was sticking out of the bottle. I started to pull on the hair and that is when I saw it. There was something that looked like spaghetti noodles only it had the color of lettuce left soaking in water. I pulled the hair and it started to come with it. That is when I could make out the form. It was in the shape of a frog. What...a FROG! I about lost my socks over that one. My stomach was all up in knots, my hands shaking and my nerves on end. I was about to pull a dead frog out of this lotion bottle. Jeron thought I was crazy. That was until I got a hold of it with a shish-ka-bob stick and pressed it up against the bottle. Then you could see the webbing in the hands. I was just shivering, goosebumps going up my arms. I was finally able to get it just right and out it plopped on the counter and sure enough it was a reptile of some sort. That is when I screamed jumped back and then took another look and noticed it was just a plastic lizard thing.

Can I just say though that that had to be one of the weirdest moments ever. I really thought there was a dead but real frog in my daughters lotion. I was thinking about all the diseases that she could have and how gross it was that a dead animal had been in my bathroom. It all ended in a good laugh but I tell ya my skin can still crawl when I think about what might have been. UGH!

Ellie got her hair cut!

Okay for the last year Ellie and I have had a real struggle. I love her long hair and so does she. The only problem is she hates it when I brush it. It is only getting worse. I have been telling her for a long time now that if she doesn't let me brush it I will have to cut it. Well over the last 3 weeks it has been nothing but a screaming fest. This is one of my favorite things to do with my girls so when it turns into torture time that is when I had to throw in the towel. I can't forget to mention that she would always get it in her month when she was eating, sucking a sucker, or chewing gum. It really has become a real problem. So today with heavy heart Ellie and I went to get her hair cut. I had all intentions to get a bob but chickened out at the last minute, and did shoulder length instead. I am glad that I did. Because look at how stinking cute this little lady looks now.


And the best part. It is soooooooooooo easy. It never snarls, it curls up cute and I can still do piggies and ponies. Ahhh change ain't so bad. Did I mention how stinken' cute she looks:)

Autumn Time

Happy Fall Y'all






Jeron and I took the pack to Farmington Trail.