Halloweekend Fun

We had a fun and busy Halloween week.

We started it off with a night of pumpkin carving

with a bunch of friends.

We ate delicious food and ate way too many treats.

Later in the week we joined our ward for our trunk-or-treat...

Here is G and his darling little tiger friend Jackson

More trunk-or-treating with Heathers stake the next night.

This is the ONLY picture of Griffin wearing his hood

and I'm glad he's also roaring like a dinosaur in full Halloween spirit...

Now, G is not one to obey and likes to be a

"free spirit" you might say,

BUT when he realized if he took his bag and said

"trick-or-treat!" to people and they gave him candy?!! It pretty much blew his mind and he hit every car possible.

It might have been one of his best nights yet

His favorite thing to do was to look in his bag and see all his candy and then try to get us to open it.

As usual he took his dad for a ride

and probably ate 20 pieces of candy by the time it was over.

Later we went trick-or-treating with the Adams family

(they all dressed in adorable Mario costumes)

Love G in this picture even though his eyes are closed.

He was too cute in his little dinosaur costume.

Its so fun to do these kinds of things for

the first time with him.

He didn't get it last year so it was so fun to get him

ready in his costume and just watch him.

I just couldn't get enough.

Party

The Manvilles had a Halloween party this year.

We played games and ate tons of yummy food (caramel apples, caramel corn & homemade root beer to name just a few)-it was a lot of fun!

Ben, Chelsey and I dressed up as "sister wives" to Daniel.

It was probably something we shouldn't have done,

but we did it anyway :).

My husband is such a good sport and will pretty much dress up as anything. You have to be pretty secure in your manhood

to pretend to be a sister wife with two other girls and wear a really ugly dress and a wig.

My favorite thing in this picture is Chelsey's shoes.

She also was freakishly good at doing "polyg" hair...

The Manvilles

Anthony & Burt

I think their costumes speak for themselves

Shanda after she made her delish homemade root beer

bobbing for apples

"Spud Harvest"

We spent a week at home in Idaho during "spud harvest"

Yes, in Idaho you get a week out of school (back in my day it was almost 2 weeks!)- to help the farmers harvest the potatoes- so my mom was off of work! It is my FAVORITE time of year and little G and I are always in attendance. I love going home in the Fall. We had the BEST time.

I left Griffin for a few days with my parents and went to Park City for a girls weekend. A bunch of our HS friends planned to come, but in the end it was just 4 of us. We still had a blast. I LOVE these girls so much and feel so grateful to have them in my life. Park City was BEAUTIFUL as usual. I love that place.

Lunch with my "Duma"

Griffin is obsessed with all things "Duma"

You might be wondering what a duma is... well somehow its a dump truck, tractor, bulldozer or any combination of big machinery. I don't know where he came up with the word, but he's beyond obsessed. It's the first thing he asks for when he gets up in the morning and we spend most of our days looking for them or watching them work at construction sites.

Sometimes lunch can be hard...but I found when you bring

a Duma in to help you can get it done pretty efficiently ;)

Last Hurrah

Our Disneyland passes expire this month :(. Even though we moved and are farther away now, I'm still sad about it. It was always so much fun to take Griffin up for the day.

I'm sure we'll renew at some point,

but we are going to take a little break for now.

I am glad that we got to go again while it's decorated for Halloween...its my absolute FAVORITE time of year.

We had a GREAT time.

Griffin loved riding the train, Dumbo, Its a Small World and playing in Toon Town... and equally hated Pirates and the Haunted house.

It was a beautiful day, no lines, time with my little family,

and I ended the evening with a big ole' caramel apple.

Doesn't get much better than that.