halloween 2018

halloween day started out nice and early and per usual... with the costume parade at the elementary school. brooklyn was a little more shy this year as none of us could pictures of her looking directly at us. hopefully that's not a sign that she's getting 'too cool' for her mom! she looked darling as a ballerina and way too grown up!

afterwards, james' parents' joined us for brunch at great harvest where we stuffed our faces full of fresh cinnamon bread, breakfast rolls, and pumpkin bread...and a little diet coke on the side.

then it was home to get the halloween chili into the crockpot. then we were off to pick up happy meals (as per tradition) for the girls, including one to drop off to brooklyn at school.

kendall had her halloween party at preschool and bless her teacher! she didn't have them wear costumes and they didn't have to bring treats. she took care of it all! while kendall was there, adi napped and i caught up on my tv shows! it was a nice little break in the craziness of the day.

when james got home, we joined the whole ruesch clan + some at my in laws' to have the chili, cornbread, soda, and root beer. the kids were mostly too excited about trick-or-treating to eat much. but on this night, we allow it!

the cousins!

after nana spoiled the girls with full size candy bars, we were off to meet up with friends for a fun night of trick-or-treating. we didn't do our usual route up in clinton with our buds the gasu's (so sad!) but we had a super fun night and the girls loved be able to run around and trick-or-treat with friends.

we stayed within our stake boundaries and found some awesome houses with all kinds of extra goodies like: hot cocoa, cotton candy, popcorn, hot dogs, fires to warm ourselves by, a harry potter movie playing on the big screen...and more! it really was a very successful route we took, thanks to our friends, the moore's who were the experts of the night.

this gaggle of girls had the best time together! even adi stayed up with them and was included in all the fun!

after two hours, keni and adi were wiped right out! so we headed for home to put the girls to bed.

not to our surprise, the girls were giddy as they got ready for bed, talking about their favorite parts of the night. i love that they have each other for this! i'm all about them making good memories together. they decided that next year they want to be the sanderson sisters! we'll see if they remember that a year from now!

they dug into their candy the next day when brooklyn got home from school. it was cute to see them make little piles of each different candy, or like adi did, just eat it straight out of the bucket. james and i also enjoyed the bucketloads of candy the girls got. lots of good snickers and butterfingers for us!

until next year halloween...

halloween 2014

so, we'll back up from the actual halloween day. on tuesday night, we hit up the pumpkin walk in north logan with our favorite neighbors. i've been wanting to go to the pumpkin walk since i last lived in logan in 2007. i loved the pumpkin walk while i was up there and always wanted to go back. it definitely lived up to the hype of my memory and it was so fun to go with friends.

we had dinner at the bluebird before.

and then met up with haley at the pumpkin walk. it was COLD. super cold. we put kendall in her halloween costume because it is the warmest thing she had. she made it almost all the way through without being sad, but then she decided she was starving so i had to trick-nurse her while walking through the rest of the pumpkin displays. that was quite some professional nursing i tell ya. thanks to haley to making sure i was covered up. brooklyn, shane, and gavin loved it. they loved running from one display to the next.

james had fun too ;)

there were some awesome fun displays, lots with tons of detail, but this one made me laugh. it made us all laugh. we were dying! and it was funny to hear the people behind us come up on it too. 

(if you don't get this, then you are missing out on a great movie!)

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halloween day came and brooklyn was so excited she could hardly stand it. lucky for her, we got to trick-or-treat in the morning like years past at mckay dee hospital. it's been a fun tradition. 

on our way home, we grabbed the $1.99 happy meals at mcdonald's, and then brooklyn got to paint her pumpkin. anything to do with painting and she's a happy camper. she loved it.

i had chili cooking in the crock pot all day, brooklyn anxiously awaited going trick-or-treating with her friends, and when it finally came, we were surprised at how warm the weather was and that we really didn't even need to eat something hot like chili. so we ate it afterwards.

^^^you can see the finished product of brooklyn's pumpkin painting on the top right step^^^

we joined forces with jeremy & chelsea, my MIL, and our neighbors and were off to a great retirement neighborhood that is perfect for trick-or-treating. no stairs up to doorways, and the kids can basically do it themselves. we just followed alongside them. such a fun night.

kendall slept through most of it and was good for the rest of it. her first trick-or-treating experience was a good one. once brooklyn's bucket was full, we headed back to the house where we ate chili & cornbread and watched episodes of the office. way better than any scary movie. we called it a night pretty early because we had to get up for a wedding the next morning. 

we went to the sealing, and then took kendall over to city creek for a momentous occasion... piercing her ears. i can't tell you how much anxiety this gives me, even though i know the outcome is good and that everything is just fine right afterwards. my mom was there and she's the exact same way. unfortunately, just like with brooklyn, the gun got stuck on the first ear. i couldn't believe it was happening again. seriously, how bad is my luck! kendall was heart broken, screamed, and then went to sleep. the actual piercing of the ears went quickly thank goodness and we could all go back to regular breathing and normal heart rates. the result is totally worth it and i know she'll be glad she has them whens she's older. just like her big sister.

a few pictures from the weekend (that had nothing to do with halloween). 

(cutler & kendall - 10 weeks apart)

^^^this melted my mama heart. kendall hates her bumbo, but as long as brooklyn would sit there and watch blues clues with her, she was content to sit there.^^^

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18 days til hawaii!