Happy Halloween 2012

Hardy Halloween 2012

Jenny did a great job putting together the costumes this year. She did a wonderful job on both the Supermen the Wear-wolf, and Tangled costumes. Emma bought her own cape and dress.

Halloween 2010

We had a lot of fun this year for halloween. First being, costumes were thought out and finished about 2 to 3 weeks before halloween. Grandma found Davids skeleton costume at a used store and boy was he HAPPY!! I made Emma's mermaid costume for under $10.00, and I didn't even use a pattern, I was boasting about that all night. I was very happy about how it turned out. Abby wanted to be a unicorn pegasus and Aunt Tami found that for her, she loves Aunt Tami forever now. Grandma also found Jacob a skeleton costume, but he chose to be a make shift Batman. He has to wear his cape backwards. I think that is interesting. And the mask, well, we found it at Target for $1.00 and he has said that it was batman ever since.

Saturday night October 30th we went to my Dad's ward party... they REALLY know how to throw a party! Pa made this shot!! Good job!

I saw this photo of me and my first response was, "WOW, I am BIG! No wonder my back hurts! Look at that belly!" Grandma Maggie who is right next to me dressed up as a Hip Pee.

The kids were able to ride all together on this really cool barrel ride. They wanted the youngest in front, but poor Jacob got grass kicked up in his face. When he got off he said, "I don't like that one." His legs were a little shaky too.

Then we went to our ward party and had some chili and hot dogs. Then we did trunk or treat. One lady even made balloon animals. Boy did she have a line! The kids loved it.

Right before the festivities we carved pumpkins. The kids drew their faces that they wanted and Pa carved them. They turned out fun. From left to right are the owners of the pumpkins, Abby, Emma, David, Pa, and Jacob.

When we went to buy pumpkins and Walmart and they were out! Then we went to our local farmers market and they were out, however Pa out smarted them. He found pumpkins that were all around the store as decoration. We were able to get these 5 we were all very happy!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Halloween 2009

This was a really FUN Halloween for me. Maybe because I was excited about it early on? I don't know. Emma really wanted to be a pumpkin. So I saw on a Martha Stewart thing that you could make a pumpkin costume out of a pillow case. So that is what I did. The hat, well, I made that up. I died the pillow case because it seems that no one wants orange pillows (Martha was very wrong at how easy it would be to find orange). I measured just the way Martha said but it was wrong, I didn't want to die another pillow case so I sewed what I had already cut back together. It was a pain to do but... I didn't have to go out and buy another thing of die.

So, here is beautiful Emma... What is halloween without face paint?

David, oh David. He wanted to be a bat so bad last year and the same passion rolled into this year. So, I made this bat costume. He drew a picture of how he wanted the shape of the eyes and also the shape of the ears. So, this is really his design. Gotta love it!!

Abby wanted to be whatever Emma wanted to be. But, Emma talked her into being a mermaid.

This costume was borrowed from my sister in law Andrea. Thank you!

Abby loved being a mermaid mostly because of the make up. Pa did a video of her when he was taking pictures and Abby was telling him all about the make up that she gets to have on. She kept smacking her lips it was SOOO cute!

I never realized how long her eyelashes were until I tried to put on mascara, they run right into her eye brows.

We went to the store after the trunk or treat party and there was a man that was blind in one eye. One of those things that makes it really hard not to focus on the person, but focusing more on the eye. Well, he asked Abby what she was. Abby just couldn't stop talking and she held his hand and just showed Christ like behaviors, I was very proud of her. He was very impressed with how much she was talking to him.

Jacob, we wanted to dress him up, but he didn't want to. I think we have had this lion costume for about 3 years now. Every year I want someone to wear it, but none of my kids will. So sad.

So, Jacob went as Jacob.

Well, at least this year my niece Amelia was able to wear it to a party the week before halloween. She was excited! Hooray!!

And here we are as a family. Pa is our cowboy!!

So, after posting the picture of Amelia, I guess I better post some pictures of my kids from the other party. David was still a bat. Emma and Abby were hula girls.

It is hard to see Emma but you can see the coconut shells that she was SOOO excited to wear!