Trick or Treat

Here is a quick review of our Halloween costumes this year.  I didn't have the energy to do a family theme and I couldn't think of anything that was a theme for all 3 kids that didn't involve too much work so I just asked the girls what they wanted to be and Allie said a chef and Brailie said a Tinkerbell and they were pretty easy to come up with.

I am simply amazed that she even kept the hat on most of the night.

She on the other hand lost the wings and wand after 1 street of houses.  But she did let me curl her hair and I think she looks like a whole different girl.

And Treyson didn't get to chose.  He got to be a sock monkey.  I am not sure he was impressed with costumes or trick or treating but he sure makes a handsome sock monkey.

Trick or Treat

This year for Halloween Allie was a pea and Brailie was a carrot.  I was originally going to have them be fairy princesses but then i found this costume idea I had pulled out of a magazine years ago and decided now was the time to do it because they weren't going to let me choose much longer.  Next year we will wear costumes that involve no hats, not extra outerwear and nothing itchy, poky or anything that may resemble something that is itchy or poky.  We will also not be attending the Halloween carnival.

 This is the gang right before the carnival.  Greg was a chef.  They looked so cute.  We decided to go to the carnival-they have games for the kids and then a parade of costumes in which you can win a prize.  The girls were excited to go until we got there.  The man announcing things spoke in a scary voice and that freaked the girls out (imagine a pea and carrot walking with their fingers plugging their ears).  I was ready to smack said announcer because there were tons of tiny kids and his voice was uncessary but I had a carrot clinging to my body the whole time so it would have been useless.  Also since the carnival is for the whole town there were way too many people crowded in a small space with way too many scary costumes.  Allie saw a wolf costume first and refused to move from her seat the remainder of the night.  It made me grateful for my mom who never let us be anything scary for Halloween.  She never let us do scary things or wanted us to scare anyone else.  It was always a day of fun.  I appreciate that so much.  My kids were not thrilled about scary stuff.  We left the carnival after the parade of Allie's age group happened and a kid wearing one of those cheapo plastic jumpsuit type costumes dressed as a skeleton won the prize.  LAME-just sayin.  We went to trick or treat and things did not improve much from there.  We saw a cat at the second house which happened to be grandma's and it all went downhill from there with screaming, crying, wanting to be carried, not wanting to go to anyone's door.  We hit about 6 more houses and went home.  And you know what the kids didn't care one bit.  They were happy as clams and Allie was glad to help answer the door at our house.  I wish our town was more trick or treat oriented so that we didn't have to drive to houses but could just walk everywhere.  Like when I was a kid and you tried to get the whole town (a small town) before dark-and that was in Canada and we usually had our snow pants and boots on under our costumes.  Those were the good old days.  Oh well-it was a fun night and a good day to celebrate Brailie's birthday.

Halloween Review

Happy Halloween from the Parsons. We had quite the weekend with Brailie's birthday, I had a Bountiful Baskets pickup on Sat morning at 5:00am (which had plenty of hiccups to keep us on our toes-thank heavens for Allisha being my sidekick I wasn't alone), we had pumpkin carving to do, party preparations, trick or treating and costumes to finish. Oh ya and my mom came too. Here are some pictures of all the fun.

Greg carving pumpkins using our new favorite method-electric drill

Grammy keeping the girls occupied while Greg and I worked on the pumpkins.
What a cutie

I think I had the harder job-I cleaned out all the pumpkins and drew and cut out the faces.

Our pumpkin snake creation

Greg's costume for his school Halloween party. He was a tacky tourist. He looked kind of more like a wacky bird watcher but either way he dressed up and that is what counts.

Brailie playing with her favorite new toy-mommy's fabric pumpkins.

Our pumpkin totem pole lit up at night

Greg's pumpkin face

Allie was Cinderella for Halloween. She was sure she needed a pair of binoculars as part of her costume.

Brailie was a little helper mouse from Cinderella for Halloween

Daddy was Prince Charming. What a cute bunch.

I was the fairy Godmother. It was so fun to go as a family theme for Halloween. Greg was so willing to dress up. That was really fun.

The girls with Tali and Preston's son Miles. Aren't they cute.

A pre-trick or treat snack.

"Why isn't there any candy in here?"

The kids figured out what they were supposed to do pretty quick

Cinderella and her prince

Tali, Preston and Miles

Stealing a kiss from my little mouse

Tali and I enjoying a little girl time while eating our kids candy-a perfect end to Halloween

What a great weekend.

Cinderella Dress-Trial run part 1

Allie is going to be Cinderella for Halloween. I made her dress last week and finished it at night and was excited to have it sitting on a chair at the table so when she came in the morning she would see it and I was sure she would be thrilled. She was thrilled to see it-but try it on-ABSOLUTELY no way that was going to happen. She said, "I DON'T HAVE TO. I DON'T WANT IT!!!!" Such a great feeling for the mom who has worked so hard. I waited a few days and tried again and the reception was much better. Here are the trial run pics-including the morning hair do. I had to include them all because I love her expressions.

These are of her twirling in it. It is a good twirling dress.

The sparkly shoes.

Stay tuned for more Halloween costume fun to come-but probably not until the night before Halloween because this mommy is swamped and behind!!! I will be channeling my mother in a few late nights of sewing I know.

Pumpkin Picking

Oh dear I am so far behind on this family blog. This is from Sept 30th. We had a home baseball game and it went really fast which left us with a few minutes of daylight in the evening and I asked Greg if we could PLEASE go out to the pumpkin patch and see if the gates were open to get some pumpkins. So we went and the gate was open and I nearly had a heart attack because of all the beautiful pumpkins. I could have taken a whole semi trailer of them home. Greg would only let me have what would fit in the blazer. Why weren't we in the truck???? Here are the highlights.

Allie didn't like walking around in the patch too much cause it was poky.

She was looking around though for some good ones. She has yet to learn that they are all good.

This is one happy mama right here in her heaven on earth

I spotted this field of giant pumpkins from far. I knew it because of their bright orange color. I wanted to cry. I have always wanted a giant pumpkin. Greg allowed me two and made me feel guilty for wanting two huge ones so I got one huge one and one not so huge.

My pumpkins with the pumpkins.

Look at all of them. I suppose I could take the girls out some time while Greg is in school and see if I could lift one or 17 more.