Halloween

I was having a hard time getting into the spirit of Halloween this year. It's one of my favorite holidays, 'cause I love to dress up. But life has gotten in the way of everything lately. Busy with the gym and trying to control the demons in my head. Haha

But I finally found my spirit on Halloween day. We started out with Ghost French Toast and Hot Cocoa. Then spent most of the day at the Lynwood Shopping center promoting the gym...which I dressed up as a Pirate...no picture, can you believe it. The kids and daddy trick-r-treated from business to business. They had fun. Kya was really having fun dressing up this year....that's my girl.

The night before we went to our ward Harvest Party, where the kids also got to do some trick-r-treating. I didn't even get to make the costumes this year....no spirit. But my sister did tell me about this website where you could order costumes for pretty cheap. When I saw Zander's costume, I was pretty excited because I had a costume to match.

I was a flapper girl (I should have lived in the Roaring 20's, I love that era), and Zander was in a little Zoot Suit. He is such a stud.

Kya was looking for costumes with me and saw the princess costumes. Naturally that's what she wanted, but they were mostly gone. So we got her a Vampira costume. It took some convincing to get her excited about it, but when I told her that daddy was going to be a Vampire...she really liked that idea.

When I put my costume on, she got a big smile on her face and said, "Mom, you look great", and then she was ready to get on her costume.

I think we all looked a little partied out.

At the Ward Harvest Party

Our little Vampira
Fishing for treats....which Kya has become quite good at....Fishing!

I wanted to put together a fun Halloween dinner, but since Carl doesn't do well with colored food (story behind this) I did normal food with spooky names....which he doesn't do well with either.

Vampire's Blood (tomato soup)

Smokey mummies (little smokey's wrapped in busquits)

Corn Maze (corn bread)

Candy Corn pudding

I had fun, and actually it all tasted really good.

We stayed in for the evening watching Halloween movies, considering we were all Trick-r-Treated out from earlier and the night before.

Just because he is too cute....some more pics!