Halloween 2014

Halloween seems to have been a spread out occasion for us and maybe that is why by the day Halloween was actually upon us I was ready for it to be over. First was Halloween themed Bunco with my friends. I posted that picture yesterday! Than we had a Halloween Party. Hopefully my friend Kacie will post the pictures she took of it soon so I will be able to steal them as I didn't take any myself, but I will share that on another blog if this happens soon.

But here we are ready for the party:

So our Halloween week ended up a bit jumbled mess as we caught a flu which knocked all 3 of us on our butts and we didn't do anything for the first 3 days!! So we were stuck with only one night to do Pumpkin Carving and well we only really ended up doing it for the experience and letting Kyra play with the guts, which she wasn't really into.

Here she is digging it out!

I made mine into a cat, and made Dustin make a quick face with his to put out on the mailbox. Done and Done!! And of course baked the seeds which were a hit even with Kyra!!

And next was Trunk or Treat with Dustin's Unit. Kyra decided to be a bear for this trick or treating experience :D She is so cute!!!

And than of course last night was Trick or Treating itself. Kyra had so much fun even if she wouldn't say trick or treat every time without being reminded and had a great time. Sadly we don't have any pictures of it as we were camera less for the night, but this morning we got up and ran to the power zone and picked up a little Nikon Coolpix camera. It is so small and of course the pictures are of lower quality than I am used to but it is going to work well for the holidays until the new camera I ordered gets here. Plus it has good video capabilities so we may be making more videos to post too :D which will be fun!! Specially of the Christmas Markets. Speaking of which Dustin and I are getting our to do list all planned and that blog which will include links to all the ones we have visited previously should be up in the next week probably!!

Happy Halloween!!!

I decided to have a halloween party at my house this year, as you can see from the few pictures I remembered to take, that it turned out really well :D
Surrounded by beautiful people and amazing friends all of whom we are blessed to know!!

Kyra Trick or Treating for the first time, and checking out her stash!! She is getting soooo big!! Hard to believe next year she will be able to say trick or treat and be really excited about it!!

 

For more than one reason we didn't carve pumpkins this year, However we did sit down and draw on ours!! You can't ruin our Halloween no matter how hard you try life! This was was probably more fun for Kyra anyways since she could do it herself!!

Spooky!!

Just a picture to show more of my photography practice!!

Shows that cropping, softening, and color can make a huge difference in a picture!! Just trying to get you in a Halloween mood!

Felt pumpkin for toddlers

So Kyra is obviously not old enough to do pumpkin carving next week she is gonna try to help but, I thought it would be great for her to have something else to play with as often as she wants that is halloweeny!!

So I went to the craft store and bought 2 sheets of felt paper. Cost like a total of 1 dollar, talk about a cheap craft!!

Than you cut the orange into a pumpkin shape.

And using about 1/3 of the black you cut out shapes for eyes, noses, and mouths. I did 4 of each.

Than you let them use their imagination. This would probably work better for 2-3 year olds than an 18 month as she didnt really get it. But we will play with it a few more times and maybe it will start to make since more!!

Halloween costumes?

How far back can you remember what you were for Halloween? I sat and thought about that and the farthest I could remember was the first Halloween after high school. Maybe in high school I just didn't dress up and that is why I don't remember who is to say?

2007: football player

2008: flapper girl

2009: vampire

Dustin: Scottish man

2010: ballerina

2011: zombie

Dustin: zombie

2012: toddlers and tiaras

Dustin: Viking 

Kyra: butterfly

Now to decide what we are going to be this year!