Halloween

We had a very full day of fun for Halloween this year. It started at noon with a doctor appointment for me downtown where Ayden got to hear the baby's heart beat. When she heard it her eyes lit up and she thought it was really cool to hear. After the appointment the girls and I had 3 hours to kill before trick or treating at Brads office. So we went to lunch and then to the zoo. It was fun to see the new addition of the zoo. It makes it feel a lot bigger and I loved seeing the giraffes even though they were inside that day and kind of hard to see. After trick or treating at Brad's work we headed to the ward trunk or treat where we won second place for our trunk decorations and then the girls went around our neighborhood too. They got way too much candy. I heard somewhere about the candy fairy who will come and take all the candy and leave a toy so I thought I would try it with the girls. I mentioned it to Ayden that she could leave all her candy (minus 10 pieces that she could keep) with a note to the fairy and she would come and take it and leave a toy in its place. She was all for the idea so after the girls went to bed I had to make a target run for the toys. They woke up the next morning very excited about their toys and it has been very nice for us not to have to fight them about candy. Unfortunately now Brad and I have a huge hidden stash of candy to tempt us. I think I might just throw it away.

Brad was out of town all week and so when he got home thursday night we carved our pumpkins. More like brad and I carved them. Don't you love my Shrek?

This is Ayden at the Zoo. She was in a posy mood. It is too bad I am not a photographer with a nice camera because it really was pretty with all the leaves everywhere and there were some good photo ops.

The new lions were funny. At first they were just laying there but then when one of them noticed the girls he came right over to the fence and stared at them looking really hungry.

I guess I didn't get any pictures of them at Brads work...oops. But here they are at the ward trunk or treat with the Pilling kiddos. Alex was Cinderella and Ayden was a barbie from the movie Barbie and the Diamond Castle. Ayden really wanted to be princess leia for quite some time before Halloween and then just when I was about to get busy and either make a costume or buy one she kept changing her mind everyday someone would ask her what she wanted to be for halloween. So we procrastinated the costumes and when I realized it was the saturday before Haloween and she had a preschool party on wednesday we took the girls to Savers and had them just pick what they wanted to be. It sure made it easy this year.

Here is Ayden with our decorated trunk. I saw this idea from my Sister in Laws blog and made our own variation of it. Thanks for the idea Amanda.

And here is Alex all exhausted from the busy day. She wouldn't let us take her dress off of course and only let us take it off for church today. I think we may have replaced the purple dress with this one. Oh, at least we are getting our moneys worth.