I hope you all had a happy safe Halloween. Halloween was an all weekend affair for us. We had our ward Trunk or Treat on Friday night. The forecast called for lots of rain and wind, but we lucked out and it was perfect weather for us!
Jacob dressed up as a penguin. He wasn't quite sure what to think of his costume and wasn't to fond of the head piece. But he put up with it for the night.
Daniel went as a horse. He was so worried about getting the horses front legs wet and dirty that he carried the front part of his costume all evening. He was quite proud of himself that he kept it clean and dry!
Bethany and Jacob.
Noah dressed up as a "shadow man" from his favorite book Fablehaven. He spent the evening "lurking about" in the dark.
They had a tractor train ride. The party was at the plant farm near our house and we had visited it the week before and gone on a train ride. This was a new driver and his driving habits were a bit crazy compared to the normal driver. This made the ride so much more fun for the kids.
Saturday we had our "Manna Halloween Party" with all the cousins that live in Washington. This is Noah, Darien and Emily.
Jacob and Alexander had fun playing with all the puzzles and blocks.
I made these mice that were super cute! They were really good too!
There was so much to do at the party. The kids all made a candy dish out of little flower pots.
I love this look on Noah's face!
Yummy little mice!
We had witches fingers, eye ball cookies (Joshua was kind enough to show them off), maggots with witches eyes, puppies wrapped in a blanket, pumpkin brains, monster face pizzas, and scabs to eat. Doesn't that just sound yummy?!
The kids also carved pumpkins.
All the fun was just to much for little Jacob and he finally fell asleep for an hour or two.
Here are all the kids with their costumes.
Daniel showing off his mummy candy dish. It was a fun day for everyone. We took the kids home and got them to bed. Kendall and I went out on a date to the corn maze. It was a fun weekend. By the time Monday came around the kids were kinda tired of the holiday and were not all that excited about going out trick or treating. I think that if the neighbor kids hadn't come over begging them to come with them they would not have gone out at all. Daniel and Jacob didn't go trick or treating at all, I don't think they cared.
We started a new family tradition this year. About the middle of October I had my brother draw a large tree and we painted and taped it up on the wall in our living room. Then every night until Thanksgiving each person would write something they were thankful for on a leaf and put it up on the tree.
We had a wonderful time each night thinking of things we were thankful for. Our tree was beautiful and I wish we could keep it up all year round! On Thanksgiving day we took all the leaves off the tree and read them. We will definitely be doing this again next year!
We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving with my mother and brother Joshua over for dinner. We had very good food and lots of yummy pie! I gave Kendall a piece of pie and he was busy talking when he noticed Jacob leaning in and snitching his pie. 
