Picnic in the park

The girls had no school on Oct. 29th in honor of Nevada Day. They had the next Mon. & Tues. off too. We had wanted to go somewhere but couldn't. Joel had taken Monday off though and suggested we get KFC and go to the park.

As you can see, the park we went to had these fabulous low branch trees and instead of eating near a play area, we chose the trees and the girls couldn't have been happier.

Yep, Joel climbed up into the tree with the baby.

Pumpkins

These pictures turned out cool so I am putting them up too.

Carved Pumpkins

The girls picked out a tiny pumpkin for Anarya this year. Shar cleaned it out and I carved it.

Mardi chose a pumpkin that was too small for the pattern she wanted to do. So she made up her own thing. So cute!

The little girls don't carve their pumpkins yet, largely because they choose very difficult patterns. But I gave Keddi a lesson this year and she will get to try it out next year. Joel helped Shinara with hers.

Pumpkin cleaning

We shopped for our pumpkins on Family Night but didn't get to them until Fri. But that gave us all kinds of time for cleaning, carving and pictures! I'll post finished products later.

Shinara never did enjoy cleaning the pumpkin out!

Halloween Costumes

I had no intention of dressing the baby up this year, but Joel wanted to. He ended up buying this onsie.

Shar was excited to be a tiger this year. Especially when we talked about painting her face. She decided that since Tigers have fangs too, the orange vampire teeth would work with her costume.

Keddi wasn't sure she wanted to be a witch this year. Unfortunately for the little girls, I have a box of costumes and no budget for them to buy what they want every year. But I think Keddi was happy with the results.

Tersa has worn this costume before and didn't think it necessary to take her picture in it this year. Plus she was busy helping to set up for the Trunk Or Treat, so Jocelyn helped me get her to look at my camera.

Mardi and Tersa read a series of books called The Hunger Games and Mardi decided to be the main female character, Katniss, from the series. She bought a keychain with the mockingjay on it so that she could make a pin out of it to complete her costume. You can't see it well in this picture, but it tipped off quite a lot of people as to who she was dressed up as.