Halloween

Halloween started early this year. Colby's awesome little preschool had a party on Wednesday, and all the kids wore their costumes to class. We love Mrs. Vanderpool!Colby worked so hard to earn his Darth Vader costume. He earned money by staying in bed, and doing chores around the house. He was so excited the week before his party when he earned all his money and got to start wearing his costume. He loves all things Star Wars...so we had to dress Brody up to compliment Darth!

Wednesday night we also got to go to Mimi & Papa's carnival. Every year their ward has this huge carnival. It is so much fun. This year everything was incredible. The food is awesome, and everything is free! We had chili and hot dogs for dinner, the best kettle corn ever, and even snow cones at the end of the night.

Brody debuted his Yoda costume! He would not wear the ears though. But it was great that he had this warm little costume because it was really cold. Normally we are sweating it out in costumes but this year the weather was perfect.

Something new to the carnival this year was a petting zoo, and let me tell you it was so good! All kinds of beautiful bunnies (lop eared, angora, and others), the funniest chickens you have ever seen, ducks, baby pigs, and baby goats. They were all super friendly and nice. Colby's favorite was this brown bunny.

Colby had a heck of a time crawling up this giant slide with his cape on, it was kind of funny. It probably took him 5 minutes to climb up this huge slide, and all the other kids in line waited so patiently. Then when he go to the top he didn't know he had to slide down right away, he thought it was a bounce house. So he was up there just jumping and laughing. Finally he slid down, and he had so much fun we had to do it again!

Mimi and Papa were in charge of the candy walk for a while. Next year we need to get some pictures with everyone. There are just so many fun things to do, that we forget about it.

Colby and Brody loved rolling the pumpkin to play this bowling game so much, that we came home and made our own with water bottles!

Brody couldn't get enough of the animals, we went in the petting zoo 3 times I think

I laughed so hard when I saw these chickens. My sister Marcie and her best friend Debbie have had this inside joke about chickens for years. All I could think of was getting some good pictures for her. These chickens were fierce! Chicken Couture if you will. They had these huge puffs on their heads and some of them had curly feathers....Brody loved them.

The baby pigs and goat.

Carving pumpkins on Saturday was so much fun. The big pumpkin was not so fun to clean out, but it did make a really cool jack-o-lantern. Colby was so excited to open them up, but not much help in cleaning them out. He carved the littlest one with only a little help from me.


Brody literally ran, when he saw us pull out the costume on Halloween night. It was funny. But he did let us put on the Yoda ears and he had fun walking to a few houses before he climbed in the stroller. Colby loved every minute of Halloween.

Colby kept saying, "This is the best Halloween ever." After about two streets he was complaining because his pumpkin was too heavy and he was ready to go home and eat candy. He loved to open the door for the trick-or-treaters and give them the candy.

Our pumpkins this year! Colby picked out the dragon. It didn't take that long to carve, surprisingly.

Who knew Darth Vader and Princess Jasmine were friends! Colby cried for about 5 minutes when he found out he wasn't going trick-or-treating with Meghan! He was so sad, but luckily we ran into them just around the corner from our house. he was very happy to see her! Meghan and Colby have been buddies ever since they were about 1 year old.

We had a great Halloween! How was yours?