Octoberfest!
Family fun at the Scarecrow Festival in Lehi.
Mostly we just watched Gabriel line up balls and bean bags that were meant for the childrens' games, (he has to line things up; he can't help it!).

Me and my sweet thumb sucker.

She does the best things with her eyebrows.
Gabriel's birthday we just had a little playgroup at the house and told them to wear costumes (so they could wear them more than once, I guess). I made this pinata out of paper mache in an effort to be cheap. It was supposed to be a jack-o-lantern, but looked like an alien. It looked hilariously awful, actually. And yesterday I saw cute pinatas at the grocery store for $6. WHATEVER!

I guess Gabriel had some attachment to the ugly thing because it hurt his feelings when all his friends hit it with a stick and punched it with their fists.

Happy Birthday, Gabriel!



Halloween Day

I made Claire a candy corn costume from the pattern in my brain while she was asleep. It turned out a little too small and I had to cut it off of her. Don't ask how I got it on. She looked fantastic though!

Our friends came over for the evening's events. This is Tyler and Gabriel trick-or-treating. Of course Gabriel walked right in the doors of the houses to pick his candy. This is him walking out of the house.

I love Halloween with little kids. I'm determined to make some wicked awesome costumes for next year, which I will start in July. I always start 2 days before. Also, I'm going to be a master pinata maker some day. It's going to be my thing. So for my kids' 10th birthdays, they will have awesome pinatas, because it will take me that long to make a good one.