Halloween 2011

Once again I am way behind in posting pictures, so now that it is almost Thanksgiving, I think I better post about halloween. We had a good halloween this year. We went to the church trunk or treat. Owen was a very cute lion. He loved having the hood on most of the time except when we were in the culture hall and it was so hot! He got mad at me if I tried to take it off of him any other time. On halloween we went to the Hearns center here in columbia for their carnival. It was pretty crazy, but it was still fun. We then went to a few neighbor houses and called it a night. Owen was so cute trying to say trick or treat and was pretty good at saying thank you. Here are some pictures of us carving pumpkins, going to the truck or treat, and going to the Hearnes center.

After a little coaxing Owen got into the pulling out of the guts.

Our finished pumpkins. I do have to say that Owen thought they were awesome when we went outside and lit them, but the next morning and for about 6 days after that he was terrified of the pumpkins and refused to go anywhere near the front door. After a while he got used to them and stopped being so afraid!

My cute little lion

The princess, the lion, and the candy giver.

Playing one of the games at the trunk or treat

He was being so funny in his seat and is actually happy in the picture, despite the pained look on his face.

Waiting to play a game at the Hearns center

Going down the big slide. This was by far Owen's favorite thing. He cried for about 5 minutes when we decided we didn't want to wait in line for another 10 minutes.

Owen's 2nd Birthday

I can't believe my baby turned two this last month! Time is just flying by. We decided to do a Mickey Mouse theme birthday party for him, since he absolutely loves "Nickey." I did these cute invitations, which was mostly for our family, but it was still fun to do.

Owen loved it and I had to make one just for him to play with

Mickey and Minnie ears for the little guests
Closer look at the cute bow!

All the girls modeling the Minnie mouse ears

Our Mouscatools for our mousca adventure. The kids had to play the games and get a picture clue to figure out where Owen's presents were hiding. I didn't get a picture but Brent was Toodles and brought the tools when they needed them.

Opening presents

Car racer for all his cars

I am going to admit that there have been times recently that I have been cursing myself for giving him so many because it seems I am always picking them up! Owen is however, a very good clean-up dude!

The cake that took me only about 12 hours to do. Kelie helped stack and frost the cake and I did the rest. I am pretty sure Brent will ban me from doing another cake for a while.

The back view

Side view

Waiting to blow out the candles

Taking one last picture before we cut all of Mom's work to pieces

Chocolate...yummy!

The girls being pretty silly. And yes, Jenna was posing this way. She knew I was going to take a picture and this is what she came up with.

Fishing for "Gooey" fish

The cupcake pinata that Owen picked out. He loves swinging that stick.

Brent decided he was going to have a little fun when we couldn't get it to break and rolled it off the roof a couple of times. If you look close you can see his toodles necklace.

Getting some candy

Our bean bag toss.

Playing with all the presents

The grown-ups playing a little Foosball

Reading one of his new books with his cousin

All the presents. One spoiled little boy. He loved all of it! I think he was the most excited about the mass amount of cars, but he plays with everything he got all the time.

Grandma comes to visit

My Mom came to watch Jenna and Brooke for a couple of days while Matt and Kelie went to New York. We had a good time with her while she was here. We played at the park, make cupcakes for our tea party, played on the swing set, went to the ward chili cook-off, read books, and while the kids were either at school or sleeping we made advent calendars for Christmas. Here are a few pictures that I took.

Owen and Brooke helping with the cupcakes

Reading with "Ammy"

Owen insists on looking at this book on his stomach and Grandma played along

Swinging

More Swinging

Our tea party

The best I could get of all three

Grammy and Owen and one little foot

So cute!

Good times

Advent calendar we worked on. The ornaments go in the pockets and you put one up every day.