Halloween 2014

This was our easiest Halloween yet, I loved it!  Of course I was excited for the festivities, I love Halloween, but the kids all three chose super simple costumes and it just made it that much easier to enjoy and not have so stress or spend much time or money putting things together for them, awesome! Pierson chose Percy Jackson, a character from a favorite books series he has enjoyed reading.  We needed shredded jeans and an orange t -shirt and some black hair spray paint.  Madi chose to be a Rainbow Fairy character (also a book series character) and was "Brooke, the Photographer Fairy", her own idea, just a cute outfit and a camera and some fairy wings!  Wahoo.  I picked up some fairy wings and wand and made her a fairy dust pouch with some glitter and sprayed sparkles in her hair, loved it.  And Jens, thankfully, and after much deliberation and too many ideas for me to remember, chose to be a puppy, a costume we had from Pierce, which Jens ended up wearing last year after he decided he didn't like wearing the Rocket costume.

The funniest thing about Jens choosing  costume was that he was actually talking about what he wanted to be for about 3 months, on his own, without any encouragement from me.  During the summer he randomly said to me, "Mom, you could be Mel for Halloween and I could be Jerzi!"  He was so excited about his idea and the kids thought it was great idea, Madi suggested I just borrow an outfit from Mel and wear a long wig.  After that, several times a week, all through summer and up until we were close to Halloween and had to make a decision, he would come up with a new idea, it really kept us laughing! At random times he'd just shout out, "Mom I could be a ---------- for Halloween"! Some of them that I remember are firetruck, garbage truck, Spider Man, Green Lantern, Iron Man, Jake, Roam (so funny, this is my friend Ashley's baby) Ferno and Bowen.  Even though it wasn't a real "Jerzi" costume and I didn't come through and dress as Mel, he was excited to be a puppy.  Here are our picture highlights...

 Madi & Annie, Annie's Grandma made her this beautiful Elsa dress and Heidi an Ana one, they were amazing!

 Heidi & Jens

Madi & made these darling Halloween banners at Activity Days, (thanks to Kathryn!), I loved how it looked with our Halloween decor, I just love my mantel decorated for fall and Halloween!

 Madi also looking festive in her jack o lantern shirt, her little side kick was too busy to pause for the photo

Pumpkin Carving! 

Jensen's favorite story this Halloween season was "The Littlest Pumpkin",  I read it to him over and over.  He was so excited to go to the store and pick out his own "littlest pumpkin".  '

 Love his excitement!

 Pumpkin guts!

 Help from Sissy

 Percy Pierce working on his jack o lantern

The big night! 

Pierce looked pretty good as Percy Jackson!  Ryan did a little computer work and we were able to make an iron on to make him a "Camp Half Blood" t shirt. I drew on his tattoo with a sharpie, I thought I did a pretty good job!

 Rip Tide!  Mom's artwork and Dad and Pierce's pumpkin carving work.  

 Brooke the Photographer Fairy

 My adorable puppy with this littlest pumpkin

 These are my favorite pictures, Jens was only concerned about his pumpkin and nothing else.

 The real Jerzi with Puppy Jens!

The Loot 

 I loved sorting out my candy when I was  kid and counting how many I got of each kind, makes me happy to see them doing this. So fun.

It was a very Happy Halloween!

Halloween 2013

Halloween was especially fun at our house this year, thanks to a certain 2 year old.  Jens was so funny, he was totally into Halloween and knew exactly what was going on.  He had been watching a Little Einsteins Halloween episode and he was into it!  First up, pumpkin carving...

There was no hesitation here! He loved helping Dad carve his pumpkin! You can see his lovely artwork that he enjoyed before the carving began.  He may have had some help from Sissy.

The big night!  Here's Pierce, the Ninja!

Madi was a lovely Dorthy this year, and she was beautiful!  She had wanted me to buy her these red sparkly shoes early in the year and I told her I would buy them only if she would wear them for Halloween and be Dorthy.  She liked that idea and that is how Ryan and I became the Scarecrow and Elfeba.  We had tried going for the whole matching family thing again this year, but Pierce was not going for that.  We were lucky to have our wonderful neighbors, the Hancocks, bring their cute puppy, Jersey (who we all adore!) over for some pictures with Madi.  Jersey is a perfect little Toto!

Jens was so funny about his costumes this year.  He was very excited when I first got out Madi's old Rocket costume for him, he loved it!  But after wearing it for about 2 minutes he was done, I think he didn't like being slowed down.  I had just enough time to snap one picture and he took it off.  I told him he could not go Trick or Treating with out a costume, so he decided on the puppy.  Madi was happy about that since Jersey couldn't go Trick or Treating with her, now she still had a Toto! 

Madi & Annie 

After a fun night of Trick or Treating we come home and enjoyed our traditional Halloween sugar cookies.  Here's Pierce with his goods and his angry cookie.

And here's Miss Madi, too busy organizing her candy to look at Mom, and very pleased with her happy face pumpkin cookie.

A very happy Halloween! 

Couples Halloween Party 2013

Ryan and I hosted our 6th Annual Couples Halloween Costume Party, and it did not disappoint!  I say this every year, but we have the funnest friends!  I had not laughed so hard for a long time, I definitely needed it! The costumes just keep getting better, here they are...

 Meyers - from "Breaking Bad" - 1st Place Best Couple Costume!   Some were also sure that Shane needed an award for the best "Look Alike", I haven't seen Laura's weird shows, so I don't know, but apparently Shane looks just like the guy!

Archibalds - very good looking Flinstones

Monsons - Very outstanding Frankenstein and His Bride - 1st Place Scariest, 2nd Place Best Couple Costume!

 Hancocks  - Medusa and her statue - First Place Tie Most Creative! 

 No Explanation Needed, at least if you live near Colorado City, Angie joined as a Jr. wife  with Schofields & Woodburys - 1st Place FUNNIEST!

 Binghams - Flo and that other guy

The Esplins -Andrea outdid herself again, Dia de la Muerta - 1st Place Most Outstanding!  First Place Tie Most Creative!  2nd Place Scariest!

 Bergesons - The Nerds

 Poultons - they really enjoyed their cruise this year, apparently they met Dr. Sam and he had quite an impact on them

 Ryan & Me, scary I know, The Scarcrow and Elfeba

 Pratts - The Black Widow and the Exterminator - 2nd Place Most Creative!

 All the girls, well mostly, sorta

 These guys had us laughing all night long!  Brother Dustin seemed a little to comfortable with his roll!

This year for our games we did the guys vs. girls and each couple faced each other in their game.

 April schooled Jon in getting the Oreo from forehead to mouth, and one of Dustin's wives tried to keep up with him stuffing marshmallows in their mouths.

Terra and Curtis were neck and neck keeping balloons in the air with no hands, and Ryan and Chels were heating things up with their Vaseline and cotton ball routine!  I hate to admit that they guys beat us by one point, but we had some great laughs and that was what made my night.

 I had to include this shot because Greg Poulton just makes me laugh.

And this was probably the gem of the evening!  Long night Dustin? 

Great Friends, Great Costumes, Great Food, Great Laughs, Great Night!  

A Star Wars Halloween

What a fun Halloween we had this year!  Pierce and Madi were very excited to have the whole family in a coordinated theme this year!  Ok they didn't say, "were exited to be coordinating", but they did say how excited they were to have the whole family be "Star Wars"!  We had actually had the idea last year when Pierce was Darth Vader, we though it would be cute to have Jensen as Yoda this year.  So we all got decked out in Star Wars get up...

Pierson as Darth Vader  (glad he was excited to wear the costume again!)

 Madi as Princess Leah 

 And our Jensey Boo (just one of his current nick names) as Yoda

Here they are with "Anakin" Dad.  I am totally kicking myself for not getting a family picture of all of us!  Really, really bummed about that.  

The Powerful Jedi assisting Yoda on his first Trick or Treating Adventure...

Yoda Jensen loved trick or treating, he for sure has the Robison sweet tooth, so I knew he'd be all about the candy, and he was!  

 YUM! 

  And of course, our favorite family Halloween tradition - pumpkin sugar cookies....

 Jensen thoroughly enjoyed his first year participating in this delicious tradition.  He is a fan.  

It was a Happy Star Wars Halloween!  Love my Skywalker Crew!