Halloween Treats

We have a party at my mom's tonight so my friends came over to help make Halloween treats.

All month we have been planning on making bite size caramel apples for a long time. We got the idea from Family Fun Magazine. They were a lot more tricky than I would have thought. I think I know why they used chocolate instead of caramel. The caramel falls off the apples since there isn't skin to cling to.

This is my favorite treat we made. I think these mummies turned out so cute. I'm not sure if I want to eat it though. Twinkies covered in frosting! Talk about taking something fattening and then making it even worse.

I was happy with how the white chocolate ghost suckers turned out as well.

Thanks Michelle and Candi for all your help and a fun morning.

Pumpkin Carving

With Joe being at school and work all the time we hadn't had a chance to carve/decorate our pumpkins. Finally, we were all home together and were able to get it done. Every time Hayden sees the pumpkins he says pumpkin over and over and tries to carry them around. As you can see in the picture he was very excited to paint his pumpkin. I was going to get out the finger paints but then I saw I had a package of Elmer's paint in a tube with a brush. It was great! there was no mess from them. I think Hayden did a super job painting his pumpkin (he has never painted before and isn't in to coloring).

We tried to get Hayden to touch the pumpkin guts and he pulled a face and shook his head no. He did however enjoy holding the spoon and scraping the pumpkin.

Like I said before, Halloween is so much more fun with little kids to celebrate it with. But isn't that the case with life in general?

Pumpkin Patch

Halloween is so much more enjoyable with children. We had fun taking Hayden to the pumpkin patch. He picked a big pumpkin. The highlight of the evening for him was definitely the tractor drawn hayride. He wanted to go on it again but the lines were too long. The farm we went to also shows the movie "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" outside. We (Joe and I) enjoyed eating doughnuts and drinking hot cider/chocolate while watching the movie. Hayden at least enjoyed his sugar doughnut but would probably have rather been home asleep in his bed.

Duck Park

My parents' computer store used to be in SLC. Occasionally we would take a picnic to Duck Park. For some reason I was thinking about that park and decided that instead of going to a park five minutes from home we should go there.

Hayden really enjoyed feeding all the ducks. I'm not sure who got more bread though, Hayden or the ducks. They also had four different playgrounds that were all a little bit different. I enjoy going to new parks instead of the same one every time.

Spooky Dinner

Every year Joe's mom, Chris, has us over for a Spooky Dinner. It was fun to see the little cousins in their cute costumes.

Chris made this fun spider web for the kids to climb through. Hayden thought it was fun but had a hard time not getting stuck.

Jason (5) taught the kids how to play Ghost, Ghost, Goblin (Duck, Duck, Goose). Hayden loved that. It is always fun to ge together.

Halloween Cupcakes

I had my sister bring her girls over and we made these cute spider web cupcakes.

Hayden was happy to eat cupcakes (yes, plural) while he watched.

Crafts

My friend Sharla is so creative and talented. I love to see what things she does and sometimes I copy her. she made the cutest AUTUMN blocks. I had my friend Rachelle cut me some blocks and vinyl lettering so I could make my own. I didn't do my blocks as well as Sharla did her blocks but I still like them.

Zoo

We bought a membership to the zoo. I am looking forward to taking Hayden to the zoo regularly. If you ever need someone to go to the zoo with give us a call.

Hayden had a great time. It has been a year since we went to the zoo. He was so little last year he just sat in his stroller and didn't seem too interested. It was fun watching him get so excited with different animals. His favorite parts, however, were not the animals. I think he liked the merry-go-round and the train the best. He cried when we got off the rides.

This is a picture of Joe and his siblings

at the zoo when they were little.

I couldn't get Hayden to keep his hands out big.

Hayden enjoyed chasing this peacock around the grass.

Hayden and the rhino

Merry-Go-Round

Love Note

Daddy helped Hayden write a note for Mommy!

Baby Swing

I wish Hayden liked the swing when he was a baby as much as he does now. Really he only sits in it for about two minutes. Mostly he likes to but his stuffed animals in the swing and push them.