Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Wymount and Party at the Wilk

This year Wymount decided that instead of attempting another flop of a trunk-or-treat that bombed last year, they were going to do a costume parade at the multi-purpose building. I got a call from the office asking me to volunteer to run a booth about 2 hours before the event was to start. I was also watching Ben all afternoon while Tyler was in class and Laura was at work. So I called Brandin and being the amazing husband that he is he came to the rescue and helped me take care of 2 boys and run the booth. We went straight from there over to the Wilk that was having their annual BYU Halloween party for the kids. The boys had tons of fun playing all of the little games and marching in the parade, as well as playing on the bouncy slide for seriously like an hour. Only one more of day Halloween and it's another years wail. Now hopefully the weather co-operates so we can go trick-or-treating. But I'm not getting my hopes up because we have had 3 days of storms, and snow in the mountains. :( 

Carter playing with the bean bag toss that we were in charge of. . 

Carter and Ben being bored during the hour that we were there. lol


Brandin helping set up the balloons


Carter marching in the parade


Then we went over to the Wilk and I took picts of the boys playing games.   .Ben "golfing"


Carter picking out a candy


I took the pict 1/2 a sec after Carter pulled his hand away from the snake. Dang it!


Carter and Ben doing the cupcake walk


going "fishing"




kaitlin and Landon going down the slide


Carter with Ben right behind him


Carter and Cosmo


Carter Ben and Cosmo


walking in the costume contest parade


getting his face painted


He asked to be a fox, and a tiger, so your guess is as good as mine. lol


Ben asked to be a frog. Tyler said it made Ben look like a cross dresser, Carter said Ben was a man frog. lol



The best pict I could get of the 2 of them. 


Carter wanted a pict in the pot. 


On our way home. Doesn't it just look so cold? The snow and fog almost covered up the Y

Monday, October 28, 2013

Ward Halloween Party

So at our ward party it was a little dull to start with, so I just took random picts of the people at my table. ha ha

Brandin and Justin


Laura


Tyler


They had a couple contests. . . and Carter won best child costume. He was just a little excited :) 


Playing musical cardboard to win a cupcake. 




Eating the cupcake he won


They had trick-or-treat in the classrooms. Carter was excited to go door to and get candy. 



They Cox's. I wasn't able to get a family pict of them at my party, so I made them pose at the church. Isom was peter pan and Addie was tinkerbell


Carter decorating his cookie. 


Silly faces


The Ankemans. I also didn't get their fam pict at my house, so I made them pose. They were the Incredible family


and us again. 



Sunday, October 27, 2013

My Halloween Party

As is now tradition I threw a Halloween Party. Typically I invite 20 families and about 1/2-3/4 show up. Since I am fat and tired this year we decided to go a little more low key and we only invited 10 families, figuring only half would show up. Not only did 9 out of 10 show up, but we had invited a few extras when we ran into them, and they came, and Brandin's sis and fam and bro and fam decided to surprise us and drove over from Colorado to come to the party! It was a ton of fun, I just feel bad because I didn't have even CLOSE to enough chairs. lol. Oh well. Everyone was really good about bringing food to share and we had a grand ol time. :) Brandin's siblings stayed the night, and hung out with us for most of the day Sat, which was great because Brandin hasn't been able to see them in almost a year, it was good to catch up and meet baby McKinlie. 

This year we decided to be Where's Waldo (Carter) Where's Wanda (me) and Odlaw (Brandin)


Carter showing off his costume. 



I made pudding cups for the kiddos, and gave them faces.... 



My cheese ball monster :) I think he turned out adorable (as adorable as cheese balls can be. lol)



The usual worms in mud (choco cake)


Veggie platter


My 7-layer dip I forgot to uncover until after people started showing up. Oops!


Ben the Lion and Carter (Where's Waldo)


The table of treats


Laura brought cute sugar cookie pumpkins 


Ash tray fruit dip


Arlen brought orange "pumpkins"


Everyone hanging out chatting



Christina and James, He was a dragon and she was his keeper. 


James's awesome tail, his mom made this costume for him! How cool is she?. 


Brandin's bro Daniel, Krystal, and baby McKinlie. Woody, Bo Peep, and her sheep :) 


The Christianson's as bananas and Emma as a monkey


The Lavayens, Ale as Rapunzel, Noah as an Elephant, Ellen as a Witch, and Manual as himself? :) 


The Becketts, a grease monkey and a Ninja


Arlen and Doris, as the Incredibles


Bonnie and Addie as Tinkerbell, and Helen and her little strawberry


I had my black lights on my ghosts and it made them glow so good! I was quite happy with the way they turned out. 


Brandin's Sis Mandi and her hubby Cory, Mayhem and Flow.  

Laura and Tyler as Cowboys

My and Laura

The guys getting ready for the game. . 


and the girls....


We copied a japanese game show that we found quite hilarious. . here is the link on youtube if you care to check out the awesomeness :)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rean7WVBM0

Me ....

Lauren.....

Ellen....


Laura.....

Christy....

Justin....


Aaron...

Tyler...

James....


Daniel....

And Brandin