MORE holiday fun

We had our ward Trunk or Treat last week and I got some

great pictures of the kids in their costumes, but

since then we have lost the plug for THAT camera.

Unless you see all 3 boys together, their costumes

aren't as cute. Hopefully we can get some more

of them together tomorrow night.

Anyways, Ash had a halloween party and

trunk or treat on Friday at preschool.

Can you guess who HE is?

I kinda get sad when I don't get to be apart of these

things with him. But I just can't think

about it too much, and just have to be gratefu that at least

he has ONE parent that gets to be involved?!

Friday evening I took the kids to a Halloween party

my school's PTA hosted. There were simple games,

treats, music and dancing.

Nalu (theodore) is not pictured in any.

Either he was strapped in the stroller

(as long as I could contain him that way, without

him screaming bloody murder),

or running around (often not to be found).
HE is definitely the hardest to take places these days!!

Ame being a GOOD BIG sister

to Simon and Alvin

Ame was feeling pretty confident

when several 5th grade girls, from

my school whom she didn't know,

kept coming up to her asking her

questions, like:

"Is that your real hair,"

(you can't really see it cuz the pictures

are dark, but she had her old dance hair piece

in her hair which was done up all cute on the

top of her head)

"Where do you go to school," or

"Are you Mrs. Hanamaikai's daughter?"

I just think they were jealous of her

beautiful costume...
MISS HAWAII

the SASH was definitely the most time

consuming part to put together.

The rest we found at savers or the $ store.

HER costume idea.

And if the OLDER girls talking

to her wasn't confidence builder enough,

she even won an award...
Other than nalu being a ROYAL pain,

we had a fun time and the kids LOVE

being able to wear their costumes

as many times as possible.

We carved A pumpkin for our FHE activity.

I usually let the kids paint their pumpkin,

but for some reason painting seemed like too big

of a mess and too much time, so we carved ONE

instead. The kids each had a part of the pumpkin

to draw and cut.

Mom got the fun job of taking the YUCK out of the inside

It's kinda sad looking, but I figure if we are going to

carve one that will just go bad in a few days, at least use

the UGLY one. The others can sit on the porch

for Thanskgiving decor.

Plus this little guy gave lots of seeds

for the kids to enjoy anyway.

I must admit I am not a huge Halloween fan,

but for the kids sake I am TRYING to keep

traditions alive and provide fun some memories.

Thankfully only one more day and then we

can move on to a MUCH BETTER holiday!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all!!!