Halloween Weekend

Halloween weekend was full of fun! IHOP always does the free "Scary Face" pancakes for kids so I decided to load up the kids and take them there for breakfast. Because who can say no to free breakfast?! The kid even went in their pjs and everything. I'm pretty sure they loved it! They got to decorate their own "scary face" and had a lot of fun eating the whipped cream and candy on top of the ginormous pancake. I'm pretty sure their faces tell all. :)

Kimbri thought it would be funny to put the Minnie Mouse ears on Brenna. I guess Brenna thought it was pretty funny too.

Rick's school, ATSU, always puts on a great Founders Day Festival around this time of year as well. This year they did it a day or two before Halloween and made it into a Halloween party as well. This festival is always super family friendly too. It's awesome. Garrett dressed up as Buzz Lightyear, again. And Kimbri decided that this time she would dress up like a ballerina. (Pretty sure she has dressed up like something different for almost every party/festival we've gone to, haha!) They had blow up bounce houses and slides, face painting, cotton candy, sno cones, and yummy food. It was all so great. It's nice when the school puts on free activities like this geared towards the families of the students. I know our family sure enjoyed it!

She wanted a witch hat on her forehead!

And of course Garrett wanted Spiderman!

More Kimbri selfies!

Rick's parents and my parents were all in town for Brenna's baby blessing since it was over Halloween weekend. Halloween was on Saturday and Brenna was blessed on November 1, a Sunday. So we felt extra spoiled getting to have both sets of grandparents join us for Trick-or-Treating. I know both Kimbri and Garrett loved all the attention they were getting from the grandparents. It was such great weather while we were walking around the neighborhood going trick-or-treating. We pushed Brenna in the stroller while we walked and got to visit with our parents while Kimbri and Garrett loaded up on some good loot. At some houses they got full-sized candy bars! We have a pretty great neighborhood for trick-or-treating :)

My parents brought Kimbri and Garrett both a Halloween costume just for fun and they ended up both LOVING them and decided to wear those on Halloween night. They looked so cute :) They brought Garrett a Spiderman costume and Kimbri a Cinderella outfit. 

Rick's parents brought us a vampire bowl to put our Halloween candy in. When someone reaches into the bowl for candy, you can push a button on the end of a cord and the vampire talks and moves. It was pretty funny to get a couple good reactions out of trick-or-treaters that came to our house. Haha!

Grandpa Lyle sleeping with Brenna.

Ward Halloween Party

Instead of a Trunk or Treat type of thing, our ward does an annual Fall Festival. It's super fun! There is dinner and then the youth set up booths with games and contests kind of like a carnival and you can win candy by playing the games. They also did things like a cake walk, eating donuts on a string, and a hay ride. The night always ends with fire dancing by a brother in our ward, Brother Filimaua, which is always a hit.

Getting her hair all curled for the ward party.

Her cheeks are getting more chubby! I love it!

Stuffing a chocolate cupcake in his mouth
from the "cupcake walk" game.

Our home teacher, Brother Filimaua and his buddy, does a
fire dance each year at the fall festival. So cool! 

Kimbri's Preschool Halloween Parade

Kimbri wanted to dress up like Sleeping Beauty for her preschool Halloween parade. I had bought the dress from a yard sale for $1 when we were in Utah during the summer and had found the crown (brand new!) for 25 cents at a yard sale here in Arizona. So it worked out great! We curled her hair and she found a matching necklace and bracelet in her dress up bin and she was ready to go!

We dropped Kimbri off at preschool for a Halloween party and then Garrett, Brenna and I went at the end to watch the costume parade. 

Random October Pictures

Garrett's "pirate face"

Their prizes they got from the dentist.

These kids LOVE to paint. 

One day the kids wanted to go to the beach so I told them, "Sure, go put on your swim suits!" Haha. They came out with their swim suits and towels and we turned the car seat boxes into "beach chairs" and they pretended they were at the beach all afternoon long. I even let them have a picnic dinner on their towels and they thought that was pretty cool. 

Making pizza for dinner. Garret wasn't quite as in to it as Kimbri. Sometimes I feel like I have way more pictures of Kimbri because she always is the one that reminds me to take pictures... of her. Bahaha! She will always pose and then say, "Mom! Take a picture of me!"

Kimbri and her artwork. She came up with
this picture all on her own! 

Taking her monkey for show and tell at
preschool.

Taking "selfies" have become really popular in our house... at least for Kimbri and Garrett. Here are a few that they have taken. Sometimes I'll find my phone has like 50 new photos on it... all of Kimbri's eye. But she occasionally gets some good, funny ones. 

This selfie is SOOOO funny to me!!!