Halloweekend

I stole the title of this blog from my SIL Jenny :)

We had a great time celebrating Halloween! On Monday we ate soup with friends, painted pumpkins and even had a pumpkin pinata! Tim and I are not usually soup fans, but man we ate some delicious soups!
  This was Kyle's fourth pumpkin he painted. As you can tell, he is quite the artist now and takes it very seriously:

The paints were non-washable, so the shirts came off. Hugh and Kyle were cracking me up together:

My favorite little man seems to always be trying to feed himself. I promise, I feed the kid!:

Kyle doesn't like Nolan trying to be in the photo or in the center of the computer screen when we're iChatting. It took some work to get this:

 Group photo, scary eyes and all:

When we got home Kyle and I walked across the street to check out our neighbor's yard. Every day he was adding some sort of decoration. In my neighborhood there is a contest and so the homes are so decked out for Halloween!

On Friday we had our ward trunk or treat. I was there, but honestly it was a blur to me. Probably because of the 35 minutes that led up to our arrival. Kyle was so excited to be Buzz. Soooo excited that he started throwing fits, being irrational and not making sense. Does this happen to any other children when they are overly excited?
  I love this self-portrait I found on my camera:

The color of his face should be a small clue to how hard he was screaming in the car:

We almost made it to the church, decided it wasn't worth it, and drove back home. About five mins from home Kyle finally calmed down and listened to us so we were able to turn around and make it in time for the costume parade and trunk or treat. 

Check out Kyle and Hugh two years ago:

And look at them now! (with beautiful Addison too)

You may have also noticed that Nolan was sporting the same Superman costume. Kyle wore it at 10 months and Nolan at 5. Yikes!

Kyle loved it! I'm so, so happy that he ended up cooperating!

Saturday we went to Sea World where it was decked out for Halloween. We did the usual rides and also the Sea Lion show.  A much happier boy:

 Too many skipped naps for this boy:

We then rushed home to give Kyle a short and much needed nap, then woke him up to go see Toy Story 3 at the dirty dollar. Maybe it was because the lights were already dark, but it didn't seem as bad as Provo's dirty dollar! We ended the night with frosties and play fighting!

Whew. Are you still here? I think I got a little picture happy taking my small camera everywhere. Today, Halloween, Kyle stayed in and handed out candy to the trick-or-treaters. He LOVED it! He kept asking me if more friends were coming. Some of my favorite moments:

1) When he called the werewolf a "teddy bear!"

2) Every time someone rang the doorbell with a scary mask he would laugh and say, "Look Mama, funny!!"

3) When he had a handful of candy, acted like he was going to give it to one girl, but then dropped it in a different girl's bag and gave the other girl just one piece. She was so bummed, but it was really funny.

4) Whenever he would hand out nerds he would shake the box first and then drop it in the bag.

5) He loved to say, "Uh Welcome!" each time he was thanked.

We also made our traditional chewy caramel popcorn. Now I'm sick to my stomach and ready for bed. We felt really lucky to have so much fun with friends and as a family. I hope you enjoyed the holiday as well!