Carving Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins was so much fun!  I gave Matt options for his pumpkin and he thought triangle eyes were about the funniest thing on the planet.  He also was insistent on having a sad pumpkin with teeth.  Darin did a spooky haunted house and I did two ghosts.

Trick or Treat

Oh my goodness!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a mom! Halloween is extra fun again! The most fun it has ever been in my whole life! This was the first year I have taken Matthew trick or treating—and he LOVED it! I first took him to the retirement home.  The old people were SO excited! It was really cute! Then I took him trick-or-treating to my parents’ and grandparents’ houses. Then Matt went trick-or-treating on Main Street with his buddy Daxton. Last we did like 4 houses in our neighborhood. It was so fun!

 

We also have some awesome neighbors that chose a theme every year and dress up as a family! This year was Aladin—don’t they look AMAZING!!?

Playing in the Leaves

Matt's Halloween Party

Matt had a little Halloween Party with a few of his buddies. These three kids were all born within a month of each other and they LOVE getting together (and it helps that their moms like each other so much too). We played “ghost bowling,” turned the kids into toilet paper mummies, made mummy hot-dogs, colored jack-o-lantern faces on oranges, made string cheese ghosts, read 3 Halloween books, ate lunch on spider plates, drank from mummy juice boxes, and more!

When the party was over, 3 seconds after we shut the door from Matt’s friends leaving he said, “Mom, that was so fun! Let’s have another party right now!” Looks like Matt has a little of me in him after all!

Lindsay had fun too!

2nd Annual Gunnerson Donut Night

When I was growing up my family made donuts each year on the Family Home Evening before Halloween. My mom would make the donuts and then it was up to my siblings and me to deliver them. I wanted to keep the tradition going, so our first two years that we were married we did it. It was way too crazy trying to watch Matt, making donuts, and delivering them. So last year we just invited people to come to us! It is a lot easier, and it is more fun to visit a little longer with our neighbors!

This year we invited about 50 families on our street. (We live on a “T” so we invite both streets). This really is one of my favorite nights of the year! One of the reasons I love it so much is because I realize that I have the BEST husband ever!! I was running a little behind and didn’t make any dinner, so Darin picked up Subway for us, he vacuumed after Matt made a mess on the floor, and then he stood and fried all the donuts while I dipped! I seriously LOVE that guy! Thanks SOO much Darin!

Here is a picture of some of the donuts…and there were even MORE!

Haylee Dipping!

Darin Frying!

Lindsay was such a good girl! She didn’t go to bed until 10. You can see here that she is exhausted (with super messy hair), I LOVE those glassy tired eyes of hers!

Another harvest, Ballet West, Breakfast, and then some.

Do you ever feel like my blog titles are lacking creativity?  I do.

Darin and I were able to go to Capital Theater to see Ballet West’s Dracula.  We even got to sit on the 3^rd row!  We could hear the dancers breathing!  I loved it!  It was also fun because we sat 3 seats away from a guy who we think was the director. 

Matthew got to have a “sleep-over” at Grandpa and Grandma’s—even though we picked him up at 10 he loved it!

 The young men and young women did baptisms for the dead and then came over to our house for breakfast afterwards!  I forgot how much teenagers eat!!  Luckily I had more food in the fridge!

Darin and Matt did another harvest from the garden.  We have A LOT of carrots!  If you needs some come on over!  We loved looking at the abnormal carrots.  I posted my favorite one!  We also have another bunch of yummy bell peppers!

Darin’s parents brought back this cool trike from the Philippines.  Matt LOVES it!  And Lindsay even likes to go for rides!  So cute!  Thanks mom and dad!

 

We had a pre-Halloween breakfast this morning!  Ghost and pumpkin pancakes!  Matt loved it!

Trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

Happy 9 months Lindsay