Happy Halloween

I hope everyone had as Happy of a Halloween as we did. Clinton had to work, so Tyler and I went to my sisters for dinner with her family, Grandpa Ray, Grandma Becky, and Sierra. Clinton met up with us and we all headed out to go trick-or-treating. It was great fun watching Tyler run from house to house, impressively keeping up with his older cousin Kinsey, who is 8. We also went to a scary haunted house by a family in our ward. As we were going through, Tyler desperately wanted to be done and get out, so we quickly went through to the end.

After trick-or-treating the neighborhood we headed over to Clinton's parents house to see Tyler's cousins all dressed up and visited a few neighbors. When we returned Tyler shared a scary story about Shadows, after which Kayden and Savannah followed. All in all it was a very successful Halloween night.

Haunted Train

My friend Kira invited Tyler and I to visit a Haunted Train. It is put on by a family who comes together to do this for the community, asking only for donations. They also do one at Christmas Time. I am amazed by how well this is organized and how perfect it was for Tyler. It was scary but not too scary.

As we were sitting waiting for our turn on the ride we watched a movie "The nightmare before Christmas", the Haunted Train theme. A light and sound piece, this is were Tyler and Korbin had their heads tilted. And then to my suprise Tyler gave five to a skeleton. Tyler is usually very uncomfortable/scared of anyone in a costume with masks. As we got on the train Tyler sat in his own seat. I sat behind him and couldn't help but laugh and giggle at his reactions to those jumping out to scare us. About half way through he decided he wanted to sit on my lap and still jumped and was very bright eyed watching for halloween characters moving and jumping out. After we were done I video'd him saying "I wasn't afraid", could have fooled me. Thank you Kira for inviting us, we had a wonderful time!

Angels and Ghosts

This year Tyler wanted to be a ghost. Of course I figured he would change his mind several times, but nope he still wanted to be a ghost. He said today "when I dress up for school tomorrow will I scare everyone?". I think his choice to be a ghost was so he could be scary. Yesterday, our Youth put on a Halloween party for the kids and because I am in Young Women's I was there in support, face painting on kids (scary right)! Tyler seemed to be his usual self and little timid with such a big group but was very comfortable playing with his Sunbeam Teacher "Brother Drew Decker". Also with his favorite friends our Neighbors Matt, JoHanna and of course Kaitlyn, as well as, Nicole, Kinsey, Jordan and Randy.

Today Tyler got to go on a field trip with his preschool class. It was cold but from the pictures it looks like he had fun. When he got back to School he had lunch and then got to dress up in his costume for his Spanish school and he was sooo excited to be scary.

Before the Halloween party, I took Tyler's shirt off to spray his hair white and while I was putting soup on the stove and his hair was drying, he came down with my Angel wings and halo on. Couldn't resist taking a picture.

Tyler and Kaitlyn adore each other. I love to see Tyler being so sweet and sharing his candy with her.

Tyler having fun beating up his sunbeam teacher "Brother Decker"

My perfect Sunflower, I love the little hands at the top

Tyler's Spanish School class all dressed up

Tyler with his class, partially dressed in costume

My cute class (Left to Right: Teagon, Mason, Caden, Me, Aspen, & Wyatt)

Pumpkin Carving

Last night the Farnsworth's invited our family over for dinner and pumpkin carving. It was a lot of fun carving pumpkins, making scary faces and spend good ole fashion family time.

Cement

I don't think I mention this enough, but I have the best father-in-law. He is so giving of his time and talents to help us out. Cement is no easy task but Lynn diligently comes to help us out and makes it look beautiful. Thanks Dad for your help. I can't leave out that I also have a wonderful husband who works hard to provide for us and make our home a wonderful place to live.


As they were doing their first cement pour, Tyler decided to run right through the cement. We didn't even realize it happened until JoHanna our neighbor pointed it out. Then Clinton just laughed and asked Tyler if he thought he was in trouble, he said, oh yeah. Then of course we had to get a picture of it.

Picnic in the Park

So after school Tyler really wanted to ride his bike and have a picnic in the park. I tried convincing him it would be fun to do in our backyard, so dad could join us when he got home. I guess I wasn't convincing enough, because he insisted we go to the park and bring a picnic basket. So that is what we did tonight. We packed up some PB&J's, carrots, watermelon, chips and water. I'm so glad he insisted on this, it brought me back to my childhood, remembering how much fun it was to eat and play with new friends at the park. Thanks Tyler for slowing my life down, to enjoy the simple things in life.

LOVE YOU TYLER

The Halloween Witches

We went to see the Witches. Tyler was a little hesitant at first but then really took to playing with the Witches. The witch he is dancing with fell right over on him, it was pretty fun seeing him under her.






Tyler, Korbin and Karson's favorite part of the night was collecting apples off the ground and throwing them into the water, and making silly faces. Korbin's foot even made it into the water.







Tyler plopped right onto this pumpkin. He was telling me about the witch right next to the candy shop and how she lifts up her skirt and you can see her underwear. He thought it was so funny.