HaLlOwEeN wEeK!

When we got Lydia's pictures taken for her b-day invites I just couldn't decide on which one because she just looked so dang cute in all of them! But these were a few of my favorites!

She of course wanted to be a princess so we thought we'd make it a bit more special since it was her birthday so we got her her own special dress and we called her "Princess Lydia"!!! She loved it! And that tiara...so adorable!!!!

Last Wednesday we did our annual pumpkin carving and Lydia got to draw, for the first time, her own pumpkin face! She felt like such a big girl.

Here are the finished products. We bought Nate his own tiny pumpkin but we didn't carve it! I'm sure you can guess who made which one! Lydia's turned out so cute and I love my little ghosts! And I know, it's so shocking that Jake did another sports themed one!

On Thursday night my sweet friend Margo put together a girls' night out to go see Thriller. Our friend Beth is an AMAZING dancer who does this show every year so we thought it would be fun to go and see her to support her and watch her show off her dancing skills!

Here we are with a dead lady waiting in line at will call before the show started.

Beth was sweet enough to invite us backstage after the show. We got to see and meet a few of the cast members. It was so much fun! Seriously, Beth is so talented and the show is so much better when you know someone up on stage. Since I was always too shy to dance in front of people, I never got to do what I love so now I have someone to live vicariously through. :) Nice job Beth!!! You are incredible!

On Friday we were invited to a Halloween couples bunco night at the Fox's. It was such a blast...I'm surprised I'm not deaf from all the screaming and yelling from that night. It was so dang loud! Tables were overturned; picture frames were broken; wow, who knew bunco could be that exciting...and destructive! I guess that's what you get when you put a bunch of loud, competitive guys in one room.

Jake and I couldn't agree on a couples costume so we were forced to do our own thing. I'm a fairy and Jake is a Huge BYU Nerd!

Although I loved these eyelashes, I couldn't wait to take them off at the end of the night! I loved the little diamonds on the end!

Here's Jake's SEXY close up!!! Sorry ladies...unfortunately for you, this man is TAKEN!!!

Here are the hosts, Angie and Skee.

Kristy and Kyle

Anabel and Joe

Anabel and I both dressed up in our daughters tutus and fairy wings...I know, we're not very creative but I refused to be a bottle of beer like Jake wanted me to!

And the winners for the best costume....Richard Simmons and his 80's work out chick! Hilarious and well deserved win for sure!!!

And finally, Halloween night arrived! We headed over to the Watt's house for a yummy dinner, took pictures, then headed out for candy!! Too bad it rained the whole time!!!! It wasn't too cold, just very wet and windy! Here are my little babies Eric Weddle and Princess Lydia!

Here's the whole gang before we headed out in the rain!!!

I didn't take any pictures after that since it was so wet outside but we didn't last too long in the rain anyway. When we told the kids we were going home, they didn't seem to mind too much! Needless to say, we didn't get much candy this year but I guess this will be one Halloween we'll never forget! I hate it when the weather doesn't go your way!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Halloween Dance!

Last Saturday, Lydia had her Halloween performance at Flip's then we stayed for the carnival afterward. It was so much fun! I recorded the whole dance but didn't take any pictures so I don't have any. But it was so stinkin' cute. I just love watching Lydia dance! It's so precious! She did the dance wonderfully; best I've ever seen her do. I love that she's so shy all the time except for when she's on stage. It's like she becomes a whole different person. Good job Lyd's! You amaze me!
After her dance, we stayed for the carnival. Here she is above showing off her spider tatoo! Lydia ran around the carnival all night long with her buddy Brielle! They just love each other so much and had such a great time together!

My sweet friend Anabel and her baby boy Mathias. Thanks for hanging out with us all night! We had a blast with you guys!

Me with my baby boy! And I must point out the shirt he is wearing! Jake was so proud when it came in the mail! That's right, he made the shirt and couldn't wait for Nate to sport it! I just love this kid's smile!

We had such a fun night; the girls really wore themselves out! Nice job Miss Mo!!!

Lydia's 4th Birthday Bash!

Lydia's Birthday Invite!

Lydia has been waiting a long time to have her own birthday party and invite all her friends! On October 22nd, Lydia finally got her party! She invited 12 friends and 10 of them were able to come! I've always loved Halloween parties and dressing up for them so what better time to have a costume party than at a 4 year olds birthday party!

We thought of a Witch's Brew and martini glasses filled with that brew (the dry ice melted super fast so that was kind of a bust)!

THE FOOD

Even though I was a tad stressed, all the food was so much fun to make. I love a themed party!

I LOVED making the cupcakes! That was my favorite part!

Tombstone Cupcake

Mummy Cupcake

Spider Cupcake

Lydia's Spider Cake

Pukin' Pumpkin Dip

Mummy Dogs

Spider Eggs

Pumpkin Veggie Dip

Thanks Lynette for all the pictures! Somehow you always end up being the party photographer so thank you for doing that for me! We set up a little photo booth to take pictures in and I think they turned out so cute. Here are all of Lydia's little friends!

Here's Princess Lydia with her family!

(Larry was a football but he's too crazy

to be around all the guests)

Hailey and her family
Madelyn and her family
Brock and his family

Lizzy and her family

Lincoln and his family

Brielle and her family

Jordan and his family

Ada and her family

Ben and his family

Rod and Sue (grandparents)

Hinarei and Margo

The Activities
Pumpkin Egg Hunt

I got some Halloween colored pumpkin eggs, put Halloween stickers on them and hid them in the yard. The kids had fun looking for them and getting the treats and toys inside!

Decorate a Pumpkin

I got some different foam face stickers online for the kids to decorate.

Lydia's Witch's Brew stained face ready to put the face on her pumpkin!

Singing Happy Birthday!

Opening presents!

She LOVES all her presents. Thank you all so much for all the toys! Lydia has had so much fun playing with all of them. Lydia's friend Brock got her a cake making play doe set and she played with it forever on Saturday morning!

Here is her finished pumpkin face that she wanted her picture taken with!

Lydia LOVES balloons and she wanted to go run around around in the rain holding them! I said yes but she only lasted a few minutes due to the cold weather!

Thank you so much to all my friends who helped set up and take down the party decorations and food! It helped so much; it's so nice to have such great friends!

Happy Birthday Lydia! I'm so glad you finally got your big birthday party and was able to share it with all of your friends! We love you Lyd's! You are such a sweet, little girl and we are so happy to call you our girl!!!!