Halloween Fun

We had lots of Halloween fun this October. My sister in law, Amy, gave the kids a fun cd with all sorts of Halloween songs on it and I swear we listened to that all day everyday usually at full volume (actually we are still listening to it as I type 2 days after Halloween!). By Halloween even Owen knew the words to those songs. We made monster eye treats:

and haunted houses:

Watching Easton and Beckett decorate their houses was hilarious. They are so different. Beckett was very exact and concentrating...every candy had it's place and purpose. And then Easton just put things on wherever with gobs of frosting. Here is Beckett deep in concentration:

We had a Family Home Evening with the Robert's to carve pumpkins.

And then since we weren't counting on a big Halloween celebration on the day we had a little party on the day before. We played games and had the kids trick or treat around the house. Easton was a robot...if ever a kid of mine wants to be a robot again I will need to make a much more wearable costume. He couldn't do much in that thing...he kept saying 'mom, I need your help, I can't sit down'! And Owie was a little dalmation...or a cow, whichever you prefer.

When we came home from church at 5pm there were hoards of trick-or-treaters walking the streets of our neighborhood! I was totally unprepared with candy until I realized that loose unwrapped gummies were acceptable. I was nearly the totally lame lady that gave out boxes of raisins and string cheese.

Rob and Easton took a lap around the block. Here are the boys on the doorstep. Easton does have undies on:

Pink Eye and Pirates

It has been a long week. We all (except Rob) came down with Pink Eye and have had a dreadful cold as well. My (not so fancy) camera also died so no new pics here. We are all starting to feel better and hoping for a new camera soon. We have had a lovely, loungy, (I know that's not a word) weekend watching the LDS General Conference (we see it a week late here). Here are just a few very random pics of the last couple of weeks. I know I promised a post about Sydney but I just don't have it in me today and wanted to get something up, so sorry...eventually.

We went to 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' at our local library. Easton looked pretty awesome in those old pajama pants and felt eye patch.

It ended up being kind of lame with lots of babies (it was supposed to be for 3-5 year olds) but they got to make a pirate hat which made everyone happy.

Easton and Beckett were the only ones even remotely dressed like pirates (the website said 'come dressed as a pirate', I swear) so that was kind of funny. They had fun. And the library is just a short walk from our house and it is right on the beach, crazy, huh?

Before the pink eye took over we were enjoying the beautiful spring weather and taking lots of walks down to the beach with lots of ice cream stops. My boys love their ice cream. I don't think I have mentioned on the blog before that Easton wears his shirt in this off the shoulder fashion nearly everyday. He likes to pretend he is Tarzan.

I love that the beach (it's just a little bay beach but that counts) is just a 10 minute walk from our front door.