Halloween Fun

We had an eventful weekend. We kept ourselves really busy. It started off with dinner at the Melting Pot on Friday. That place is fun, and yes, expensive. But a fun place to go once or twice a year.

Saturday was the zoo with Kyleigh, Kiana, Danyell and me. There are alot of babies at the zoo right now. Here is the cute elephant. There was a baby giraffe and baby tigers, but we did not get a good pic of those.

The first stop was the train.

They have cute elephant souvenirs.

Ride the Rhino Kiana!!

These statues are great for photo opportunites. Everybody waits to take their pic there.

Here's another.

After the zoo, we headed to Gardner Village. What a mess. There was way too many people there. This was my first time there and it was kind of painful. First of all you had to park like two blocks away. Then there were so many people that you could not even walk around and worse off could not walk into the stores. It was so crowded. First, the kids got to ride on the ponies!!

Ride 'em cowboy.

The witches are pretty awesome. They are so creative and fun.

We let the kids get their faces painted.

Kiana face is suppose to be a witches face so she could dress up later.

Kyleigh's is a butterfly.

Then we let them get their hair sprayed.

Spray it on!!!

We bought a witches hat. Everyone who was dressed up as witches here had really cute stockings on so we bought some purple ones to match Kiana's get up. Gardner Village ended up being fun, expensive, and exhausting. Even though it ended up ok I was glad to leave.

And here is the full ensemble!! The stockings are so cute! We thought it turned out good for being last minute. Kiana has such good poses.

Aaawww!! There is the sweet girl that we love. Such a fun smile.

So the kids are all dressed up because our last stop of the night was to ride the Heber Creeper through the "Haunted Canyon." It was really cold outside but ended up being so fun. They have creepy stories playing during the ride and haunt the trail with spooky scenes and scary people running through the train. It was a good trip because we had the whole crew: me, Yhostin, Kiana, my mom, my dad, Chris, Mary, Taylor, Danyell, Kyleigh, Ervin-Yho's dad, Tiffany-Ervin's girl, Yasmin and Jeremy. Pictured is Jeremy as Darth Vader, Kiana as the witch, Yasmin as a vampire girl (I think).

Taylor was his cute self. He seemed to enjoy the ride. He really liked playing with the flashlight.

Keeping an eye out for those creepy people.

Where are those spirits?

Taylor was surprised by our visitors in our car. He only got scared once.

We kept trying to scare the kids by screaming. They did look a little worried every once in awhile. After the train ride we stopped in Lindon and ate at Los Hermanos. We were really hungry but it doubled as Ervin's birthday dinner (1 day early). We had been gone all day. I was pooped. I didn't even want to eat.

So on Sunday, to finish it all up, we carved pumpkins. Mine is the boo and Kiana's is the trick or treat. We didn't carve it all the way through, we were trying to be all Martha Stewart-ish. The middle pumpkin we used these cookie cutter type things and hammered it through to cut out the shapes.

So our Martha Stewart project did not work. We need to thin the pumpkins out more because you cannot see the light come through. I will try to thin them later and see if it works.

And finally, here is the dogs costume. London sporting the bee look.

Britian now wearing it. It is funny because the head part is a little tight so when I pull it over their head they won't move there head.