Trunk or Treating

Our Halloween celebration started out early this year and boy oh boy, were the kids excited.   The Gunnison Market sponsored the Trunk or Treat this year and because of so many other things going on this weekend, they decided to hold it tonight, Thursday, rather than Saturday. 

 

The businesses were asked to participate this year, so I decorated our car (thanks to Pinterest) and handed out candy from Donaldson Insurance.  Trey was excited to dress up and pass out the candy so I could walk the girls around car to car.  The weather was cold and wet, so it went quick.  Because of our participation, our car won the best car award and won a $25 gift card. 

Pictured is Jaylie Hansen, Allyson and Lottie

The kids had so much fun dressing up for tonight's festivities.  The only thing we hope for is that the weather is warmer the day of Halloween than it was tonight. 

Preschooll Halloween Party

 

Today was Lottie's Preschool Halloween Party.  She was pretty excited about dressing up as Spiderman Girl to show off to all her friends.  She loved having her hair painted blue, but more than anything, she loved the spider and the spider web that I painted on her cheek and above her eye lid.  She thought that I was magic.

 

 Lottie with Miss Jen and Miss Shelese.  These two know how to throw a party!

Carving Pumpkins

 

Carving pumpkins this year ended up turning into a two night project.  We had talked about getting everyone's carved and out of the way on Saturday night, but Lottie was too tired to do hers and McKenna went out with friends.  So, Trey and Ally decided to get a good start on theirs.  Trey knew exactly what he wanted to carve this year, so he pulled out his pencil and went to drawing.  Once he had it like he wanted, he got his knife and went to work.   Allyson's biggest decision was which pumpkin was she going to start with first.  She has several this year from field trips and then the pumpkins we picked up at that patch.  Once she decided she wanted an owl carved out, she was able to narrow her decision down to the perfect one.

 

 

 

Round #2 of pumpkin carving was Sunday night.  This time it involved all four kids.  Ally didn't want to carve tonight, she just wanted to paint; so once that pain was out, Lottie wanted to do the same thing.  Trey had a couple small pumpkins that he worked on and McKenna took on the Jack-o-lantern look.  This kids are getting old enough that it isn't so much work for mom and dad.  They all knew what they wanted and off to work they went.

 

 What a cute bunch of kids!  McKenna obviously wasn't very thrilled to be carving, but when its a holiday tradition, she knew she had to make the best out of it.  I think in the end, she had a lot of fun!

 

Lottie had fun writing "TYRA" on one of her pumpkins!

 

Final Pumpkins . . . . .

Beck Family Farm

It's that wonderful time of year again, as we see the leaves on the trees change and the signs of fall are upon us.  We love the holidays at our house and the fun begin with Halloween.  The kids have always had so much fun picking out their perfect pumpkin.  Even though they have had field trips already, there is something going as a family that makes it that much more fun!

 

Well, not only was finding the perfect pumpkin fun but the added extras just make it that more memorable.  Trey, Ally, and Lottie were able to do the corn maze, they found their way to the end and then backtracked back to the start!!!  Always plenty to do and with the weather as hot as it was, they could have stayed all day.  Luckily, they were convinced that it was cooler at home compared to the patch, so we were able to head home with our pumpkins.  Until next year, the perfect pumpkin will soon be our porch decoration for the next couple of weeks!

Halloween Art

Today, Jeremy, McKenna and Trey went on a horse ride to the Henry Mountains, which left Ally, Lottie and I home to do whatever we wanted.  With Halloween quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to make some sort of Halloween craft.  I had spotted this cute footprint/handprint project on pinterest, so I thought we would attempt it! 

 

These two little girls had so much fun painting their hands and their feet.  They just giggled and giggled as the brush rubbed across their feet.  Their both thought that it was pretty fun!

 

 

Here is the final project, they turned out pretty cute!

Halloween

 Halloween 2014! 

Can I just say what a fun day!It is hard to believe that Halloween is here

and boy do we have a houseful of excited spooks!  

 

 

McKenna was excited to get up and get dressed up in her new costume so she could go to school as a Super Woman.  Thursday night, her and several of her friends were at our house and I helped make three other super hero skirts.  Each of her friends were different heroes and from the sounds of it, made a pretty cute bunch of girls.  The girls that dressed up with her were McKaylyn Edwards, Halle Bjerrguaard, Paige King, and Kennedy Hall. 

 

Jeremy couldn't wait to get dressed up and head to work this morning.  He had it all planned out that he would come to the door and ring the door bell to make someone come and open the door for him.  Because of the office security, the doors remained lock 24/7, so Jeremy figured he would be more convincing if he didn't use his keypad that day.  The guys in the office were a little nervous at first see this guy walk through the front door.  But the seriousness didn't last too long that Jeremy didn't have them laughing their heads off.  All the guys at work wanted to eat at El Mexicano today and they didn't think Jeremy would dare walk in there dressed like this.  Well, obviously, they don't know Jeremy very well because he walked in there and he laughed because he almost felt like a celebrity with the guys from the office being his body guard.  He got all kinds of looks and actually had an old lady hit on him, she liked him for his hair!

 

Because the elementary school won't let the kids dress up, they decided to still look festive.  Ally was really looking forward today because I was the room mom for their class party that day.  We stayed up the night before and covered 25 juice boxes in white tissue paper.  Ally then took a sharpie and drew the faces and the word boo on each box.  We also made a whole bunch of rice krispie pumpkins to share with her classmates, which of course were a huge hit!

 

 

 

 

After school was out, the kids were super excited to come home and get dressed up.  The weather was perfect for a Friday night, so they knew they could lots of trick or treating done on a night like tonight.  I made the traditional sloppy joe dinner and they couldn't eat fast enough that they wanted to go and get started.  McKenna ended up going with her friends, but only after I got a few pictures of them.  Trey had his good friend Kort Sorensen come over to go trick or treating with him.

 

We trick or treated all night long.  I had Trey, Kort, Allyson, Lottie and Brexton Neal with me.  We started in Centerfield and worked our way to the north side of Gunnison.  We tried to hit as many houses as we could before it got too late.  Everyone knows who give the good treats, so those house were all a must to stop and trick or treat, who wants to pass up a regular size candy bar or pop? The kids had so much fun and of course, so did I.  Their smiles on their faces were priceless.