Halloween 2008 What a TREAT!

Our Halloween festivities started last night! Luke's friend Owen moved to Colorado this summer and he came back with his dad to visit. So he slept over last night (I know what kind of mom let's her kid have a sleepover on a school night???). It almost didn't happen because Luke was sick the day before but he had a miraculous recovery and so the party still happened (thank goodness, this REALLY would have broken Luke's heart!)

I am the room mom for Emma's preschool class and so here are some of the pictures from her party.... we had such a great time! We had a parade around the parking lot, decorated pumpkins, decorated Trick-or-Treat bags, made spiders from pipe cleaner and tootsie pops, played pass the pumpkin, count the spiders (I had a big spider web drawn on paper plates and numbered each plate (1-10). Then the kids would pick up 1 spider ring with the clothes pin and put it on the paper plate with the number 1, 2 rings on plate #2, etc), and my favorite the mummy wrap (The kids were in teams and they would wrap each other, mummy-style, in crepe paper and then hop to a finish line). They even ended up wrapping their teachers :)

THEN after school we headed to Matt's work to Trick-or-Treat!

This is Matt's boss Colleen!

THEN we ran home for a neighborhood party that my friend and I planned! It was soooooo fun and we had a GREAT turn out! We just got together and had hot dogs before the Trick-or-Treating!

Gavin was being such a stinker and wouldn't let me take any pictures of him...he had a cute little stick horse but I don't have one picture of him with it (talk about STUBBORN!)

IRONMAN

These are Luke's buddies Kyle and Austin (twins from down the street that we ran into Trick-or-Treating)

This is Luke's buddy Dalton from school...(Dalton is all Luke talks about). Dalton walked with his big sister from quite a ways down the street to see Luke :)

Then the highlight of the Trick-or-Treating was when Luke got to go to his teachers house! She had sent an email to her class saying to stop by and say hi if we were in her area (she only lives 1 subdivision away from us) What a nice teacher! Luke was so excited :)

The Perks to being a Drama Queen!

I think when my friends heard I cut my foot they misunderstood and thought I CUT MY FOOT OFF! :) They spoiled me and pampered me for the two days that I was on crutches! On day 1 Amy Hillis brought over a FHE lesson, chocolate, and a magazine! Day 2 Amy Lopez took Emma and Gavin for the day and when she returned them she brought me dinner AND she and Emma made a necklace for me and a matching one for Emma AND she took these cute pictures of my kids! Day 3 Andrea Rediske was ready to come pick up Gavin for me to take for a couple of hours but by then I was finally done with the crutches and couldn't let her do that for me, I had been pampered too much already! (THANK you anyway Andrea that was soooo nice of you to think of me!) I had plenty of other friends calling to see what they could do for me! Thanks everyone!

An unexpected Daddy/Daughter date

Our family was supposed to go to our ward's Trunk-or-Treat tonight BUT plans changed....poor little Luke got sick at school. His teacher called me about 10:30 am saying he looked droopy and like he didn't feel well. I knew this was going to be so hard on Luke because today was a special day for him, he was going to eat lunch with his friend Dalton and his mom in the outside courtyard. Sure enough when I picked him up he was crying and I knew the major cause was him missing his lunch date :( Poor kid. So we took it easy today but he still was not feeling well tonight. He fell asleep on the couch while Gavin and Emma and I carved our pumpkin. Then Emma got ready for the Trunk-or-Treat and Luke realized he wasn't going and melted down. He said I was the meanest mom ever and that I was ruining his life :( All this while I was taking his 102 degree temp. Poor boy! So Emma ended up going on a Daddy/Daughter date to the activity!

Amy Lopez took these pictures for me at the Trunk-or-Treat!


This is Amy's baby Cooper (Gavin's best friend :)