Halloween Times

So a few weeks back

Tyler gave Ellory a bath

while Kale and I went grocery shopping....

She just can't not be cute.

It's impossible.

Tyler went on his last away

game with the football team

this season to Vancouver.

This was the view from his

hotel room:

Nana and Grandpa sent us 

a much anticipated 

Halloween package!

They are so sweet to send

us packages!

They sent treats for everyone,

books for the kids,

cute Halloween pajamas for the kids,

a Halloween outfit for Ellory,

the movie Dracula Untold for Tyler and I,

and Kale's Halloween costume.....

He wasted NO time putting it on,

and then continued to go

about his day.

Goofy kid :)

This is proof that they love each other,

in case in the future they forget:

Kale and I made a countdown to 

Halloween chain.

He was very proud of it.

And this is just a picture

of them because I can:

Kale helped me make some 

Halloween cookies!

Pumpkin carving is always fun.

Kale helped me clean 

out the guts.

Then, he decided what the faces would be.

He said he wanted one to be a 

vampire,

and one to be silly.

Ellory ran around being adorable

with no pants on.

Finished!

Boo!

Look at my cute family

On October 22 my lovely grandma passed away.

She had pancreatic cancer,

so we knew it was coming,

but it still came too quickly.

I was unable to attend her funeral,

which was on October 28th.

It was hard for me to not be there,

for many reasons.

So, I decided to play a card game she

taught me on one of her visits to Iowa

when I was in high school.

I love her so much,

and I miss her already.

It continues to amaze me how,

despite our hardships,

life continues on,

whether we want it to or not.

And so, 

that night we went to our ward

Halloween party.

Kale was the coolest 

Captain America there!

The party was chaos,

but Kale enjoyed getting his hands

on as much candy as possible!

I went to a costume swap at our

public library and found this cute

little zebra costume for Ellory.

She wouldn't keep the hood up,

otherwise it would have been even cuter.

And then, it was Halloween!

Tyler had a home football

game to get to,

so the kids and I had some

time to kill.

We got our costumes on

and Kale and I had some fun.

I had told Kale I would be a bad guy 

for him to catch,

so I went with Burglar.

Ellory was refusing to cooperate....

too busy watching Word Wold.

We went with our friends,

the Marshes,

to the Gilbert House.

It's a Discovery Museum for kids,

and they were doing a fun little

trick-or-treat activity.

The Gilbert House had a ton

of themed rooms

full of things for the kids to do.

This room was the Aviation room.

The theme from Top Gun was playing

in the background.

Those two tubes in the above picture 

were wind tunnels. 

Kale and Lyda always 

have a good time together!

The room in the picture below

had tubes you could

mix around to make tunnels for ping-pong

balls to travel through.

Kale loved that room.

By the time we were ready

for trick-or-treating,

it was POURING.

But we had been talking about

trick-or-treating with Kale

for weeks,

we couldn't cancel.

So, Kale and I went out into

the downpour, armed with an

umbrella,

and Tyler and Ellory chilled in the car.

It was so much fun!

Kale was a trooper,

and he got a lot of candy in

a small amount of time

because all the houses 

gave him a handful of candy

rather than just one piece.

Then we headed home

to put on dry clothes and

sort through Kale's candy.

 

And Ellory was just happy 

to not be in the car seat anymore:

Happy Halloween!