HaLLoWeEn

I love Halloween, but this year was especially fun just because Luke was so excited about it! He was ready to trick-or-treat and dress up! He's been into Toy Story for months now, so he was Buzz Lightyear. Jake and I were slackers and didn't dress up ... maybe next year. We did a few festive things over the past week. Here are some of our Halloween happenings!

Miss Ella in her Halloween onesie. (She wasn't a big fan of Halloween this year :)
Luke as Buzz Lightyear!

He had a great time trick-or-treating with Gunnar and Lily on Halloween, and got to run around in his costume again at the ward trunk-or-treat tonight . Gunnar made the cutest little Clark Kent, and Lily was a fairy princess. Between trick-or-treating and the trunk-or-treat he got tons of candy. I'm already getting bugged by soo much candy around... finding wrappers and licked on suckers in weird places. I'm thinking of using sis-in-law Melanie's candy disposal technique soon... like maybe tomorrow (check it out here).

Cuties trick-or-treating and trunk-or-treat pics...

Jake didn't have to go to school on Halloween, so we headed over to Sea World to check out the Howl-o-Scream stuff. They always do a good job decorating the park! I finally got to go on the roller coasters since I'm not pregnant anymore! Yay! We always spend a lot of time over by the flamingos and birds when we're there since Luke's a big fan... this time the birds were psycho though.. a few came over snapped at Luke and Jake with their beaks! Aaa!
Luke loves Shamu...

Sea World stuff!

On Monday night, for our FHE activity we made a gingerbread haunted house. Luke did a great job decorating it! He likes reading the book Bony Legs which is about a witch that eats kids. Anyway, he was excited and kept saying that we were making Bony Leg's house. So cute. He and Jake had fun making their tongues black with the frosting and thought they were funny putting frosting on Ella's forehead. Check out our creation... I'm sure you are all going to want a bite ;)
Working on it...

To end on a gross/scary Halloween note, one of the best parts of the week was finally catching this nasty little guy that has been living in our garage. Nice work, Jake. :) He took like ten pictures of the dead mouse, so here's one for your viewing pleasure. Ya, super gross.