Halloween 2011

We had such a fun Halloween this year filled with lots of fun activities. It took a long time to decide on Halloween costumes. I wanted to be that family with cute coordinating costumes, but it was not meant to be. Tucker doesn't like to wear hats and I just wanted him to be excited about his costume, so I let him pick out his costume at the store. He picked out Elmo and was pretty excited about it, he wore it around the house every day for a week. Halle was Jessie from Toy Story, although some people thought she was wonder woman, which I can understand. I like her little onesie because it shows off her chubby legs. The Wednesday before Halloween we went to our ward party which was a little Halloween Carnival. Tucker really just wanted to trick-or-treat, so he didn't love the activities. 

We carved pumpkins while we watched Charlie Brown. Watching Charlie Brown with Tucker makes me wonder why these movies are such classics. They are not very nice to each other in the movies and it is kind of depressing. Anyway, Tucker did a great job painting his pumpkin and putting on stickers. Sheldon went all fancy on his pumpkin and it turned out great

We went with a TV theme this year for our pumpkins. Sheldon's is from The Mentalist and it is a face a serial killer leaves behind. Creepy, huh?

My pumpkin is a pineapple if you can't tell, it does kind of look like a strawberry. It's from the TV show Psych and they have a pineapple in every episode.

Tucker's awesome pumpkin. There are only two colors on his pumpkin because they were the only paints I had that weren't dried out. Definitely need to stock up on some art supplies.

Random picture of Halle. She likes to sit on the counter while we do dishes.

We also went to a pumpkin walk at Central Utah Gardens. It was fun with cute little games for Tucker to play. FYI if you ever want your kid to be a really popular character, Elmo is definitely the one. Kids would get so excited when they would see Tucker. He should have been signing autographs or something.

Tucker and Avery, best buds. Avery was a cute little garden gnome. Trick-or-treating was so fun this year except for the fact that Sheldon became super sick and wasn't able to come with us. Tucker loved it, although after about 5 houses he was tired and just wanted to go home after visiting one of his friends houses. Which I was a little disappointed about because I really wanted to eat some of his candy :) We had perfect weather this year, which never happens in Utah! It always snowed by Halloween when I was growing up in Logan.

And if you need some laughter in your day you need to watch this funny video about parents who told their kids they ate all of their Halloween candy. The very last 2 kids in the video are my favorite. Many thanks to my sister for sharing this with me :)

Pumpkin Carving!

On Monday we carved pumpkins. Sheldon and Tucker are dressing up as matching pirates, and we are decorating our car for the ward trunk or treat pirate-like, so the pumpkins kept up the pirate theme.

Sheldon's pumpkin:

My pumpkin: (I accidentally knocked his mouth out while I was carving so we had to perform oral surgery to reattach it.)

Tucker's pumpkin: (For some reason he only wanted to put stickers around the stem of the pumpkin.)

We had Avery and Tucker decorate pumpkins together, Sheldon is sewing Tucker's costume in the background. I have such a crafty husband :) he has done everything for his and Tucker's costumes. The costumes are going to be awesome, I can't wait to get some pictures. Tucker can even say "Arrr, Matey"

is it too late for halloween?

Halloween was so much fun this year! I think it was more fun this year, because we loved dressing Tucker up and trying to get him to say 'Trick or Treat.' Everyone once in a while he would say something that sounded like it, something to the effect of "ickoreech." Sometimes all I could hear was the ick and then it was too much jibber jabber. Sheldon and I had fun carving pumpkins this year, Sheldon's is the pumpkin on the left with the crazy face. He tried to make it have a big flame in the background by putting as many candles as he could fit in the pumpkin, but he couldn't fit enough in to make it really work. I of course tried to carve a pumpkin that was too hard for me and it didn't turn out very well. Note to self: next year carve something really easy! It's supposed to be a skeleton and a bat, but I almost chopped of his arm and he wasn't stable enough so he kind of fell over. Next year I will definitely choose something that is a no fail carve.

We let Tucker decorate a pumpkin with stickers and he loved it. He was so fast at figuring how to stick the stickers on, unfortunately he also liked taking the stickers off, so we had a hard time making him leave the stickers on.

Sheldon's work hosted a big Trick or Treat around the office. There was a lot of people there and Tucker wasn't really into the whole getting candy thing. He just wanted to hold his two pieces of candy and didn't want to let go. Needless to say, they were pretty melty and gooey by the end of it. He did have fun seeing his friend Avery there and walking around Sheldon's office area which was less crowded.

Taking a break from all the action.

Someone at Sheldon's work had a bunch of tickets to the Real Salt Lake Soccer team, so on Halloween Sheldon and I got to go for free! It was a fun game and the weather was perfect. It wasn't quite as exciting as when we got to see Beckham play, but it was still a good game.