End of October & Halloween

The last week of October seemed to be packed full of fall and Halloween fun!  We stayed very busy but had a lot of fun and made some great memories and traditions together as a family! 

All September and October, Robby got Calin ready for Halloween reading our Halloween books.  Calin LOVED these books.  We would read them during the day and again before bed.  He loved to read them over and over.  He would often sit down and just flip through the pages on his own and sometimes tell a little bit of the story.  He did this a lot the last few days of October with "Wee Witches Halloween" and loved to take that book everywhere with him!  His favorite books were "We're Off to Find the Witches House",  "Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween",  "Over in the Hollow", "Room on the Broom",  "Skeleton Meets the Mummy", "Mouse's First Halloween",  "Shake Dem Halloween Bones", "Miss Smith and the Haunted Library", "The Night Before Halloween", "Wee Witches' Halloween".   We will miss these books now that Halloween is over! 

Reading one of our favorites at Grandma Comeford's with the cousins one night last week. 

Last Saturday we went to the Dixie Homecoming parade downtown.  Calin loves parades.  His favorites are the "cool cars", horses, and the bands.  A new treat for Calin in this parade was everyone in the parade was throwing lots of candy (previous parades he has not been as interested and there was not as much candy).  Calin really like to go and pick up all the candy.  He knows what candy is, but doesn't associate it with a treat or something you eat.  So he was perfectly content to gather the candy up and then put it in his big pile!  There were no kids around us in the spot we were watching and everyone in the parade thought Calin standing there waving was the cutest thing.  So they threw lots of candy! It was great for us, we didn't have to buy as much candy to give out for Halloween! ;)  

Cool car! 

We even got some posters, plastic megaphones, and some frozen yogurt handed out! 

Loving the bands going by! 

After the parade, the school district was having a "spooktactular" downtown.  They had lots of booths, games, and food.  We wandered around a few booths and then met up with the cousins and watched them play the games for a little while before we headed home for lunch and a nap after a long morning! 

Calin checking the witches out at the Spooktacular. 

Sunday night we went over to Hollie and Jimmy's to read Halloween stories with all of Robby's family.  Everyone brought one or several favorite books to share.  It was fun to hear some other stories we didn't have.  

Monday for FHE Robby, Calin and I went out to "Sleepy Hollow" at a farm/ranch in Hurricane.  It was lots of fun!! When we got there the headless horseman greeted us before our hay ride over to the farm.  Calin loved that a tractor was pulling us on the hayride, and the headless horseman followed us all the way.  

Once over by the farm they had goats, pigs, and sheep that you could feed and pet.  Calin loves to feed animals so he was loving it!  The goats were pretty excited to have someone feeding them too!

They had a little kid maze made of hay bales.  Calin enjoyed running around until we were finally able to help him find the way out! 

There's the exit! 

 The best part of the night was Calin's first ride on a horse.  He didn't seem too excited while he was on the horse,  but as soon as it was time to get off he was so sad and kept asking for more.

There was also a bigger corn maze that we had fun running around in for a while.  Calin even found some corn for us to take home for dinner! ;)

 After the fun at "Sleepy Hollow", we stopped by Tracee and Austin's house where all of Robby's family was carving pumpkins.  Calin was more interested in playing and we didn't want to be out too late anyways, so Robby carved one of our pumpkins there while Calin and I played. Then we hurried home to get Calin to bed and we saved the other two pumpkins to carve on Wednesday night.

Tuesday night we had a ward party.  It was a chili dinner along with a band and line dancing.  It was fun to visit and eat some yummy food.  Robby and I were given all the leftover rolls (11 costco bags) and spent Wednesday afternoon delivering them out to families in the ward.  Oh the joys of being in the bishopric!

After delivering rolls on Wednesday, we let Calin help us carve our other two pumpkins.  It took a little convincing to get him to dig into the pumpkin, but once in, he loved it!

Our 3 pumpkins! Robby did the two outside pumpkins and with Calin's requests I carved the middle.  He wanted a sun, a hat, and a cat.  Whenever we draw pictures he loves doing the sun.  He wanted it on his pumpkin too.

Halloween finally arrived on Thursday.  That morning Calin and I went walking with our new neighbor Alisha and her daughter Dyllan.  We have been a few times with them this week and are enjoying the company having someone with us walking.  Alisha also saved me on Wednesday morning when I locked my keys in my car getting the stroller out of the trunk and therefore not being able to get into my house either.  She left her daughter at home with her husband and drove Calin and I over to get keys from Robby at his work.  So glad that she was there to help! I now have extra keys made and hidden so it won't happen again!

After our walk Calin had a nap and we had lunch.   Then I started getting him ready in his costume to go over to Great Grandma Lundberg's house to say hi and "trick or treat".  While he and I were getting ready I came into his room to find him sitting at his table reading some books.  Love this little reader!

I also had some music playing and after getting changed came in to find him dancing away.  When the duck song came on he ran into the bathroom asking for his rubber duck.  He brought it back into the room and danced away!  I ran and got the camera.  He got distracted shooting some baskets but then started dancing again. He cracks me up! 

As we were getting ready to leave he had to have his duck and his bear to take with him!  Cause every ghost needs a duck and a bear right!!?? 

We made it to Great Grandma's to trick or treat and show off the costume.  Glad to have her so close! 

That evening we got everything ready and headed out with Calin to do some trick or treating at a few houses on our block.  He is the cutest little ghost there ever was!

"Oooooooo" 

Knocking on Grandma Comeford's door. 

"Treat!" 

Our little family. 

Waiting for trick or treaters by the fire pit in front of our house with Robby's
pumpkin on fire (on purpose) in the background. 

Keeping warm with Dad! 

After the very few trick or treaters we had died down we headed over for a quick stop at Hollie and Jimmy's for their annual Halloween party.  It was fun to see everyone in their costumes and to show ours off.  It was a long day, but a lot of fun!  Calin was a trooper and even did pretty good and had minimal crying getting his face paint off at the end of the night.  We sure do love our little boy and have so much fun with our little family!