All About Halloween

 This post includes all things for Halloween.  

Let's start with costumes.

Noah saw this Catboy costume in Walmart and loved it!  I'm so glad we could find a costume that he was excited about.  He wore it a ton the first day and then wore it off and on until Halloween.

Kira wanted to be Twilight Sparkle.  She really likes the My Little Pony show.  She tried on her costume...so cute.

And Sofie really wanted to be Minnie Mouse.  

Catboy again. 

One Sunday afternoon we made monster rice crispy eyeballs.  So fun to make.  We took some to our neighbor.

For Primary, we delivered these candy hands to the primary kids.

Sofie and Noah's Halloween and Fall art.  

We made sugar cookies for Halloween.  Isak and Kira were able to roll out the dough and cut out the cookies pretty well this year!

Kira made this mask out of play dough.  Spooky...

Licking the frosting beaters.  

And let the frosting begin.  They loved doing it.

I should have monitored the sprinkles better...the sprinkles got dumped instead of sprinkled onto the cookies.

I frosted and sprinkled some.  Then we delivered them to our neighbors.

Our neighbor Jaelyn came and frosted some cookies too.  

Halloween Dinner...

Nels helped make the mummy hot dogs.  You can tell he was thrilled.  Haha.

We had monster teeth...

And spiderweb dip.  Haha.  It was pretty fun to make the food.  The kids liked some of it.

The kids got to wear their costumes to school.  Sofie and Noah wore theirs first.  

They were SO excited.

Masks on, and ready for school.  I love that thumbs up from Noah.

Isak and Kira had school the next day and wore their costumes.  

They were excited too.

Masks on and ready for school.

Here's Sofie and Noah's class.  

They played some fun games.  

Then on Halloween the kids finally got to go Trick or Treating.  They waited a whole year for this day.  They practiced and practiced.  :)

So thankful the weather was nice and it was Saturday so Nels could be a part of it.  

We started Trick or Treating at 4 p.m. and lasted 2 hours.  The longest we've ever gone!  It was so fun!

Do you remember when Isak and Kira were almost 2?  They were dressed as Batman and Minnie Mouse too!  Just like Sofie and Isak this year...

I love this picture!

Cutest pony/unicorn.

So strong and brave!

The neighbors were so nice and so many amazing decorations.  I loved all of the white and purple flowers at this house.  

This guy had a chute for the candy to go down.  And a huge spiderweb.

Our neighbor Jaelyn and her parents joined us.  

I thought this was funny...  Take one or die!  COVID-19.  

We saw a giant unicorn.  The girls were so excited!

It was fun to see all the creative things people did and it made it so much better.

Isak wanted to go one more time...so I took him, while Nels stayed home with the rest of the kids.  We ran around super fast and got lots of candy.  

This is another favorite picture...these two girls with their pumpkins.

And I like this one too.  We aren't creative.  We just set out a table with candy on it.  Kira colored the trick or treat sign.  But it worked for us.  

It was a great Halloween and I enjoyed the festivities with my family.

Sunday's in October

October 11 - Sunday

We all went to church this time.  I loved Kira's hair.

A little picture outside the church...

Sofie looked so cute...

So we did a little photo shoot when we got home.

My favorite rose bush made a beautiful backdrop and matched Sofie perfectly.

Isn't she beautiful?

October 18 - Sunday

We went to church again.

We took pictures with our pretty leafed tree.

I didn't take photos of the last Sunday...

Nels's Birthday

Anything nice that happened in October was to celebrate Nels's birthday.  😀  I think we did a pretty good job celebrating him.  

He took the day off the day before his birthday...because all of the kids were in school.  So we were able to get away for a bit.  We ate a huge breakfast at Buttermilk.

I ate all of mine!  No leftovers for me.  It was SO good.  Those banana chocolate chip pancakes are amazing!

We came home and took a nap because were so full!  Ha!  Then I picked up Sofie and Noah from school.  The weather was so nice.  When we got home, they begged to go on a bike ride.  So I took them around the block.

They were pretty fast and I had to run to keep up.  

Once Kira and Isak came home, we went to a park together.  I played hopscotch with the girls.

I got a picture of the kids with their dad.

Then we went to Red Robin for dinner.  Pretty great day off with yummy food and playing with kids at the park.

The next day was his actual birthday.  The kids helped me decorate...

A couple of days before, each of the kids made Nels a special card.  I was proud of Noah for making a card too.  He put Mickey Mouse stickers on it and Kira drew a Mickey Mouse car for him.  He was so proud of it.

Sofie worked hard on coloring her card.  Kira helped her write some nice things too.

Kira's card was so sweet.  And Isak did a secret code for his birthday card.

I made Nels a four layer ice cream cake...it's kind of melting and not very pretty.  But it sure was delicious.  

The kids loved celebrating their dad too!

Here's Isak's coded message...

Here are the other kids cards too.  

The nice things Kira wrote.

The kids gave Nels lots and lots of hugs.  We hope he felt extra loves this month.  :)