Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Halloween Activities

In case you are wondering, I never put up any Halloween decorations and think this is the first year in my life that i didn't carve a pumpkin... I feel a little guilty about that one. John says that is like having Christmas without a Christmas tree! In spite of the lack of pre-halloween spirit, we did have a fun dressing up and trick or treating...

A few days before halloween, John and I went to a really fun murder mystery party. John was told to dress up like a ware-wolf and I was a grim reaper. We went all out on the costumes and had a great time. It was a bit of a challenge getting the hair off of John's face... I didn't read the instructions for the adhesive very well, it said, "remover not included." oops...


We took advantage of the 4 day weekend (Nevada day and teacher inservice day) and headed up to Provo. We picked up Ashley and headed to my sisters house for dinner and games.

Can you guess what Mitchell was acting out in charades??


Cindy made delicious caramel apples!

On Saturday we drove up to Todd's house so Tanner could go trick or treating with the kids... he had fun chillin on the guitar...


Ashley and baby Justin

The Westra's and Tanner all ready to party! Dallin blended in with Tanner... oops.


On Sunday we went up to Temple Square to entertain Todd's kids while he and Sharolyn went to a special meeting for Salt Lake temple workers. President Uchdorf spoke to them! Pretty lucky. We had a good time looking around with the kids. Grandma and Grandpa were so cute... they need to go on another mission there!

Todd's girls LOVE Mitchell. they would walk around holding his hands! Then Mitchell had his backpack with all of his halloween candy in it!! He couldn't say no to them...


One of my dad's beautiful pictures of the temple!

We got to go in Ashley's room during visiting hours on Sunday. it was good for the boys to see where she was... Ashley treated us to a few meals while we were there. She had $100 on her dining plus meal plan that she needed to use. (you loose it if you go over $100) We got it down to $18! We ate good!

It was great to spend the weekend with family! We love them all! Especially this cute girl! We will see her in a few weeks for Thanksgiving!




6 comments:

Grama Linda said...

I'm so glad you got to go to Utah and see your family and that cute Ashley!! I am missing her.

suzanne said...

you are a very scary grim reaper... but i guess that comes with the costume. we didn't carve a pumpkin either, i'm not very halloweenie...

Jeff and Michele said...

We never carved a pumpkin either!

Ashley Marx said...

suzanne, thank you. she WAS scary!! i cant believe she went out in public like that! uhg! hahaha. and sister schlauder (is that spelt right?) i miss you too!!! i hope you're in town for thanksgiving... i'll be paying you a visit. love you mommy. thanks for coming to visit me :) miss you already.

Carrie said...

I had a pumpkin, but never got around to carving it. It must have just been one of those years! Glad you had a fun trip to Utah. I miss Ashley's cute face, too. Fun to see the pictures!

Cindy said...

faHey Al I was just looking through pictures on your blog and this one of Mitchell looks so much like Kevin! How weird is that!? I was like how does Allison have a photo of Kevin and then I'm like no this is Mitch! I guess they really are related or something!