This is Halloween

Happy Halloween!

We have Brynnlee the Ladybug.

 Kaleb and Bradley as Mario and Luigi... not respectively.

 

Apparently I put their mustaches on upside down. 

And Jaden as the Red Ninja.

Now the mustaches are on right!

Watch our for the Red Ninja.  He's lethal!

Right before we went Trick or Treating Kaleb decided it was "too embarrassing"to be Luigi, so he ran upstairs and changed into last year's Ninja costume.  I think he just got tired of every single adult saying, "Eets-a-Madio!  And-a-LuEEgi!"

This is one of our neighbors who was about 39 weeks pregnant.  Haha!  With her red eyes, and oversized baby making it's way our of her stomach, I'm creepily reminded of Twilight.

Brynnlee only lasted about 10 houses.  Once she realized she was getting a bunch of candy in that bucket, she just wanted to stop and eat it all.

So we took her back home where Grandpa was passing out candy.  Thanks Dad!

She was like the Very Hungry Caterpillar.  She kept eating and eating...

 ... and eating.

When I came home later with the boys, she decided to try some from Bradley's bucket...

And then from Kaleb's.

Jaden must have been the only one smart enough to hide his.  Haha!

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Patch

Today we went to the Pumpkin Patch.  This is a patch in South Jordan that to be honest, isn't even that cool.  When Jaden was only a few years old, we were living with my mom and dad in South Jordan.  This one was the closest one to their house. We have continued going there ever since.

When we first got there, Bradley thought it was so funny that there were white pumpkins.  So he decided that he was going to choose a white one.

Jaden wanted the biggest one he could fine.

Kaleb had a very precise idea of the "perfect pumpkin." He knew he wanted a white one, but it had to be exactly the right diameter.  He had a measurement of about 10 or so inches, that he held out between the palms of his hands.

Picture him standing straight up, with his elbows down by his sides, but his forearms are bent parallel to the ground.  His palms are facing each other, with his fingers all pointing forward.  The distance between his 2 palms is about the width of his torso.  Whenever he found a white pumpkin, he would hold his hands apart at his perfect measurement, and bend down to see if the pumpkin would fit.

He probably went through 20 or so pumpkins before Charles said, "Kaleb!  I see it!  It's 3 rows down, next to that lady's foot!" Kaleb saw it.  He didn't seem convinced.  But when he walked over to it and performed his standard test he was amazed to find... it was PERFECT!  He was SO excited to have found the perfect pumpkin.





They all took turns pushing the wheelbarrow.

These next 2 pictures show what Bradley liked to do over and over... in public.  A little hip thrust action.

So picture him thrusting forward and back, forward and back.  Yeah.  We had to tell him to stop.  Haha!  Maybe that's his happy dance??

As Charles paid for and then loaded the pumpkins into the car, the kids had a chance to play on the tractors.

That night the kids gutted their pumpkins.  Then they each drew on paper what they wanted their face to look like.  Then Charles and I did our best to copy it onto their pumpkin and help them carve it out.

Ready for Halloween!