Friday, October 31, 2008

Busy Halloween Week

Halloween week is always crazy busy for us. Katelyn's birthday is two days before Halloween and Nikosha has a Halloween piano recital. Both of those things on top of all the Halloween parties and stuff going on make it a very busy, but fun, week. The girls wore their costumes so many times with parties, dance, school, etc. that today Katelyn said, "Mom, why do we have to wear costumes every day." By the time the actual trick-or-treating comes they are already worn out and don't really care all that much about how much candy they can get. (Believe me, I am DEFINITELY not complaining. I love not having a ton of candy in the house for mine and my kids' sakes.) I want to send out a little thanks to whoever came up with Trunk-or-Treating. Nate and I LOVE it! We're done in about 30 minutes time and it's wonderful! We're really not the Halloween Grinches, it's just that we're pretty worn out too when it comes time to trick-or-treat.
Nikosha's piano recital this year ended up being on the same day as Katelyn's birthday. So we went to her recital first, where she did a wonderful job memorizing and playing her song called "Trick-or-Treat." Then after the recital we all went to Arctic Circle. Katelyn didn't care what she did for her birthday. All she cared about was that she had her best bud, Ashlyn, there with her, so Ashlyn came with us to the recital and Arctic Circle. Those two, as you can tell in the pictures, are inseperable. They just love being together and they are so cute together too!

This year for Halloween we had a cheerleader, a ballerina, a butterfly, and a superman! I think it is so much fun dressing the kids up for Halloween. I'm not a person who just likes to go buy a costume at the store. I like to mix and match the costumes we have and kind of invent things and then buy some extra accessories and stuff. That's about as creative as I get.

And then we had Nate

The girls are always scared of him when he wears this mask, but Kyler loved it!

9 comments:

JENNY said...

hey julie!! that is so cute that kyler was superman! so was my youngest boy, it's a cute costume for a little boy.

Blake Jones said...

Your girls and Kyler look so cute. I like their costumes. I'm the same way with store bought costumes. Maybe its because thats what we always did growing up. I wish we would have had more places to wear costumes. I made Remi and Alissa costumes and they wore them for maybe 3 hours. All that work for 3 hours. Maybe I'll sell them on Ebay or something. We'll see. I'll post pictures when I get some good ones, if I can convince Remi to put her costume on again. She definitely loves her underwear the most.

Grama and Grampa DD said...

I'm amazed at all you girls - - you get soooooooooo much done all the time - - making costumes, doing all the birthday and Halloween things and still have time to post on your blogs so quickly! We love it and we love you too!!!

Stan and Kristi said...

You are so good at updating your blog! I always get excited when I look at your's and Jenny's blogs and they have been updated. You really are ambitious to create costumes for your kids! Any ideas how to make a Star Wars Clone or a Superman for someone who doesn't know very well how to sew? Hee hee...

Stan and Kristi said...

Oh yes, their costumes are adorable!! I love the picture of Kyler. He smiles like your girls did when they were that age...mouth wide open. So cute!

romanrobertaloftus said...

It was great to have you guys over!!! We'll be coming up for thanksgiving..

Kelly said...

I just set our blog back to private and I'd like to invite you to see it. Could you send your email address to kellycstewart@gmail.com

Blake Jones said...

We are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS TO COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tai said...

I love your kids Halloween outfits. Kyler looks like he was laughing at Nate. I would have been scared. Next time you come to utah you need to give us a call. We would love to see you!!