Haunted Heber Creeper

 We totally recommend the Pumpkin Festival at the Heber Valley Railroad, especially if you find discount tickets! Ellie loved the "Train Station".

 Of course, we went the day it turned cold, but at least the rain and snow stopped while we rode!

 The haunted car--spiders and too much fog! The two little ones clung to Mommy. Where'd Dad go?

 We even chose a pumpkin in their pumpkin patch (a 20 ft square fenced in by chicken wire).

 Someone's old enough to safely handle the camera!!

 Dancing the monster mash. These "train helpers" later brought us each a cookie.

 See? It really was a scary ride!

 Not sure why we bought seats. They did this the whole time!

The girls were disappointed we didn't make it to the lake to see if we could find Grandpa there. We turned back at soldier hollow--the engine "shoved" us all the way back!

Happy Haunted!

 Ellie Loved the plug in pumpkin face! Every time she goes by it she laughs and says, "There's my Silly pumpkin that I made!"

We let Katie pretty much carve her own this year. Scary, I know. She broke the tip off my knife, but otherwise came out unscathed. Phew!

 Katie had a full-dog halloween. Her pumpkin is a dog paw print (not a cougar, but. . . ) and she enjoyed being led around on a leash by Cruella. Maybe she doesn't remember how that story went!

 We loved Boo at the Zoo! Amanda met a fellow ballerina. Katie showed off her own Jack-O-Lantern smile. Ellie just likes any day that she has wings!

Trick or Treat

Ellie loved her first Halloween. She didn't fight her "mane" and she loved Trick or Treating. I stayed home to pass out candy and Brett took the girls around the neighborhood. I expected him to drop off Ellie within an hour but they came home well after dark and Ellie was having a grand old time. She loved watching all the costumes, going to the door with her bucket, and growling like a true lion.
Mandy had a huge story for me about "darf skater" (Darth Vader) who followed them, but then turned and went away. Her eyes were huge as she's telling me this. She repeated the story multiple times over the course of the evening.Katie just kept going and going, dancing the night away. I made them come in and eat some dinner when they finally brought Ellie home, but they wanted to go back out again so Brett took the older two out again and Ellie was asleep within half an hour. It was lots of fun.
Katie had fun at her first school party and she got to be in the costume parade that went around the whole school. Mandy and Ellie came with Brett and me to Salt Lake to see Brett sworn in as a Utah Attorney in Abravanel Hall. They wore their costumes, and while we waited for Brett to sign all the various rolls, everyone gooed and gahed over Ellie and Mandy. So it's official, he signed his soul away on Halloween.

Halloween 2009

Although this is a bit outdated, I wanted to catch up still. We had a really warm, really fun Halloween. We carved pumpkins, and went trunk or treating before Trick-Or-Treating around the neighborhood. We were the royal family, of course- Dad being Prince Charming, I was Cinderella, Katie was Belle (of course) and Amanda was Snow White.

Katie and I also did a new pumpkin decoration. We put nail holes into the pumpkin to put plug in faces. She loved wielding the hammer.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween-Princess Style

Would you ever wonder what we shall be at our house?
Nothing but Royalty. . . .
Soo, now I've told the scoop. What are YOU going to be????

Sure you know, but just to clarify: Prince Charming, Cinderella, Belle, and Snow White.

Beautiful, I know!!