Halloween 2012

Halloween is a great holiday! I love it! We do a lot of celebrating because we don't just limit Halloween to October 31st! The school where the boys go always does a Fright Fest, it's their ONE fundraiser for the year. It's always fun and we love to go! This year, Brian was not feeling all that well, and had to work the night shift so I took our three goblins by myself. Hence we did not stay too long. But we still had some fun. This year we didn't do a family dress up theme. I hate it! I love a good theme! So Ashlyn wore a princess dress and I added a crown. Teagan wore an old ninja costume, and Rayle had gotten a Green Lantern suit for doing some work at my mom's. However there was a run in the back side so he added some cool PJ pants to cover that up! 

 Our princess!

 Ninja's and Green Lantern can get along!

 WATCH OUT!

 Ready to go!

 I didn't get too many pics but here is a slide they all went on. It was HUGE and Ashlyn had to figure out how to climb without tripping up on her dress. She did it!

 Dancing to some music!

 Go Teagan!!!

On Tuesday Oct 30th we had our Ward Trunk or Treat. It was combined with another ward and lots of fun. We had chili, cornbread, mac and cheese. There was a few bounce houses, a cake walk, and fishing for the kids. Lots of treats, and then of course the trunk or treating from car to car to get candy!!!  Costume changes AGAIN. Rayle put on some clothes to go as Harry Potter.

 I painted Teagan's face and he was cactus man or something like that!

 Ashlyn had preschool party that day and I meant to repaint her face but ran out of time. I found this cool mask on pinterest and made it up real quick the night before!

 Here is Brian's shirt I made him for Halloween. He is excited to wear it for me.

 Actual Halloween Rayle went as Batman! Thank goodness for lots of choices right!!!

 We went to Chipotle for dinner! $2 burritos for costume dress ups. The kids hated it! It was too spicy for them!

After dinner we went over to Brian's mom's and then to the Red Mt. MCC campus for their free event. We went last year and it's lots of fun. We went again with the Perkins. After we finished up there it was late and the boys had school so we went home. Oh we did take all three through a Zombie Ward at MCC. They all freaked out and I think we deserve worst parent award for scaring them. Oh well!

Box-O-Monster

Tomorrow is Ashlyn's Halloween Party at preschool and we are suppose to supply juice boxes. Well I couldn't just supply any old juice box, it's HALLOWEEN! I needed to bring a little fun to the juice! So I decided to paint monster on the boxes and bring a little holiday happiness. HOW FUN ARE THEY!!! It was a lot of fun making these, little time consuming, but that's okay! Ashlyn is worth it! I made five different designs and I made three of each design. I hope that all the kids enjoy them!

 Here is a group shot of all the monsters.

 I made some Jack-o-lanterns.

 I made some mummies.

 Some Vampires.

 Here is a CandyCorn.

And LOL Frankenstein! 

Lots of fun! I made sure that the paint would NOT bleed through last week and painted a box and then waited a few days and opened it up. The painted did NOT bleed into the box and ruin the juice. Also I only painted the fronts. I left the backs unpainted so I didn't have to misplace the straw and possibly lose any when in the painting process. Lots of fun and LOTS of cuteness!!!

Three Little Ghouls

Here are our three little ghouls all decked out in their Halloween bleach tees I made. All three really liked their shirts, Ashlyn didn't want to take hers off after I took the pictures. The boys wore them to school yesterday. Rayle likes his but complained it was too long. The only size in youth shirts I could find at Dollar Tree was XS and Medium. There were not smalls and that would have been better for the boys, but oh well. The fit was okay on Teagan. I really liked how they all turned out after washing them. What a great and easy project, and there are endless ideas as you could make any kind of design!!!

Get the most out of it!!!

Today has been a very productive day! This morning we were able to help out and clean our ward building. Not sure how much the kids helped, but Brian and I were able to get some cleaning done. When we got home the boys raked the dogs...um pooh and then I went and shoveled it into the trash. There were loads of laundry, dish washer unloaded and reloaded, bathroom cleaned, and boys room cleaned. After all the work it was time for some FUN! The weather was just about WONDERFUL today so the boys rode their bikes most of the morning and into early afternoon, Ashlyn "rode" her bike too, e.i pushing it because she WILL NOT pedal! While they rode I worked on a craft project and Brian worked on the car. It was very nice to feel accomplished with all that got done today. Tomorrow we can defiantly rest from all our labors!

Here is what I made today: a bleach silhouette tee. Last week I was invited to a craft night but could not go as I never know when Brian will be working. I thought he would have worked that night, but then he ended up not. It was already past the time for me to leave when we realized he would not have to work...BUMMER. So I have been wanting to make these tees up for awhile and today fit the bill. It helped that I bought my supplies I needed yesterday too! :) 

What you need: a t-shirt I got mine from Dollar Tree! I bought three one for each kid so spent $3+ tax!!!

 You will need a silhouette of some kind. I opted to make some Halloween themed tees. Ashlyn wanted a witch and a moon. I found this witch doing a Halloween Silhouette search. Make sure you turn your design the way you want it. I wanted the witch to face right not left, so I flipped the paper over and traced on that side, and then traced the picture onto my contact paper. Also the more angles you have the hard it will be to cut out. This one was tricky.

 Then you will need contact paper or freezer paper. I choose contact paper, because one it sticks to my tee and I also needed it to finish up my Thanksgiving place mats from LAST YEAR the kids made!!! I got mine at Hobby Lobby, don't forget to use a COUPON!!! ;)

 I meant to take a picture before I started to cut, but forgot, here is the witch and moon, I free-handed the moon in the background. And noticed she is facing right now, not left.

 Peel your contact paper off, THAT TOOK F-O-R-E-V-E-R I think it was the longest part of the project, trying to peel the pieces apart! Stick the contact paper onto your tee where you want the silhouette. Place some cardboard in between the shirt so the bleach will not bleed through.

 I used bleach also from the Dollar Tree $1+ tax and a spray bottle another $1+ tax it was a 70% bleach to 30% water. With the witch and the moon I went a little over board with spraying. First try so I was not sure how much I needed. I also sprayed really close. I barely made a dent into my bleach solution in the water bottle and it was one of those small hair water bottles. You will not use very much.

 When dry or you just can't wait any more, peel the contact paper off, and reveal the silhouette. I loved  how it turned out! I was too anxious and some of the droplets of bleach fell back onto the none bleached area, but it's okay the shirt still looks great.

 The boys didn't really see a fun design they loved so both came up with an idea they drew out on a post-it, and then I enlarged the idea on paper, and traced and copied it onto the contact paper. Rayle went with a Vampire: evil eyes, fangs, and blood dripping down. Pretty cool!!!!

 Here is Rayle t-shirt all done. I like!!!

 Teagan went for cool and laid back, a monster with some shades and fangs.

 I folded the tee over and that created the line, but the important part is that they love their shirts!!!

 I was also able to work on a prop for our upcoming family pictures. I wanted to create a banner with our last name on it. I got some burlap at Hobby Lobby, couldn't use a coupon because I used it on the contact paper :( I didn't want to go back another day!  I cut out a triangle pattern and then cut out enough pieces in burlap to make our last name plus two extra pennants on each side. Oh I wanted a little darker color than this tan, but they had this or dark brown, so I went with this color.

 I used some stencils we had and painted our last name on the pennants. 

 I had some twine from forever ago and started stinging the pennants to make our A.W.E.S.O.M.E. banner.

 Here it is done. 

 To sting the banner I just used my scissors to make a hole for the twine and feed it through.

Easy cheesy and we are that much closer to getting some snappy snap shots of our little family!!!

Pumpkins Shumpkins

Some friends invited us over on Monday to carve pumpkins, and it was a lot of fun. 

(Sorry if I talked so much and gave unwanted advice. I have that problem, I will blame it on being my mother's daughter.)

 I really love Halloween, and carving pumpkins is so much FUN. I know we carved some before the kids were born the first few years of marriage as well. I found both ideas on pinterest and knew that the boys would enjoy them. Rayle drew his picture on the pumpkin before I could stop him and it needed to be a certain way so that it would work. I think he was happy that I took over. Well maybe I guess I should allow them to help out more, but with artwork it's hard for me to allow it done in their way and not mine. UGH I have a problem! Teagan did the drawing for his pumpkin and I carved. I fixed a few areas so that the image would not fall into the pumpkin right away. Can you guess what we did?

 Pikachu and SpiderMan.

 Here is Pikachu from Pokemon.

 Here is SpiderMan.

The pumpkins with the lights on. 

Still need to work on Ashlyn's! And these guys are looking sad after only a few days carved. Darn AZ Heat! WE WANT FALL!!!!

Thanks again Perkins for having us over!!!

Happy Trick and Treating

I love the age when children realize what Halloween is all about. This was that year for Ashlyn! She had some warm ups with the boys school festival, and our ward trunk or treat. On Monday night it finally clicked and she understood that if she stood all cute then she would be rewarded with CANDY!!! It took some coaxing for her to allow me to take her loot and place it in her bag. She wanted to hang on to all her spoils, but her little hands can only hold so much. By the end of the night she was putting the candy in the bag herself. It was really fun to see her excitement! The boys are old pros, and it was fun to see the three of them running from house to house. Love the cooler temperatures and when its okay for my kids to dress up and enjoy a night out!

Pictures are from the trick or treating event at Red Mtn MCC. Brian had to work so we hung out with a family from our Ward. It was great that they allowed us to tag along!!! I guess I didn't get any from actual trick or treating in the neighbourhood we went too. OOPS!!!

Let's go already!!!

Creepy Crawlers...for sure! This guy kept picking that thing up! It freaked me out!!!

Rayle looking at all the stuff on the Creep Crawlers table.

Teagan fishing for candy.

Ashlyn fishing for candy.

They had all these pumpkin lanterns around the courtyard, Ashlyn would go up to them and say "hi".

Rayle showing some cool moves.

Ashlyn and Roman waiting for some yummy popcorn. So cute!!!

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