Halloween 2011

Our Halloween festivities started the week before when we decorated sugar cookies for FHE. As you can see, the kids had more fun eating the cookies than decorating, but they were yummy and it was fun.

I forgot to take pictures before the plastic wrap was on for some deliveries, but here is a plate of Halloween cookie goodness!

The next activity was carving pumpkins which we did Saturday evening. We almost didn't get pumpkins because we waited so long to buy them and 2 stores were out of good ones, but thank goodness Lins had plenty!

Bryan carved this pumpkin for the kids and they loved it!

Lexie asked every morning for about 2 weeks if it was Halloween. The day it finally arrived she asked to "Go to Halloween" a.k.a. trick-or-treating. She couldn't wait to put on her costume and go get some candy! I thought for sure Lexie would want to be a princess this year since she is really into that right now. I was looking at a costume store online that was having a big clearance and saw an ice skating costume and she said that's what she wanted to be. So I also found this future Olympic champion costume for Hoyt and thought it would be super cute to have them both be future Olympians. I was actually watching the 2008 summer olympics in the hospital while in labor with Lexie and watched the 2010 winter olympics while about 7 months pregnant with Hoyt so I guess that is just in their blood.

In the afternoon we went to SUU and visited some of my friends and let the kids trick-or-treat there. We then went trick-or-treating to some of our ward, but Hoyt had been sick for a few days and still wasn't 100% so after about 20 minutes we figured he was done. I stayed with Hoyt and handed out candy while making dinner and Bryan took Lexie trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. She LOVED it this year and her pumpkin got full after only going for about 45 minutes total. Once she got home she enjoyed handing out candy to the other kids who came to our house.

Future Michelle Kwan and Michael Phelps?

For dinner I thought about getting a Jack-O-Lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's but it was more than I wanted to pay so we just made our own pumpkin pizzas that were super yummy!

The kids enjoyed their Halloween meal.

Hoyt in his other Halloween outfit.

After carving the kids pumpkin, Bryan carved his huge pumpkin and here they are all lit up. I kept my pumpkin to make dinner-in-a-pumpkin later in the week! Happy Halloween!