October is such a fun, busy Month!

Among the real business part of life there is always the fun that has to come with it. Mike had an idea to do a Dia De Los Muertos Pumpkin for both our ward Halloween Party and our Friends Halloween Party competitions. I jumped right on board and luckily we were able to use some of my pottery carving tools from ages ago to make it turn out. It was a blast to work together on this.

This is the almost complete deal, just the eyes weren't completely done.

Me working away...

Mike working away...

A picture of it fully completed!

Also, we really like to put some effort and thought into our costumes and so far we have a pretty good winning track record. With Mike's fat ballerina to Wayne and Garth to me being an oven with a bun in it to announce Lincoln and Mike being the chef it took us a while to find somthing to work with yet another baby bump and so, Mike came up with a "White trash shotgun wedding bride and groom" and boy was it good...or REALLY BAD. We both looked hideous as you can see...

Our group of friends at the party.

Me: Bad make-up, buck teeth (custom made by Mike), bad hair, carnation fake flower bouquet with matching fake flower head piece, a homemade veil, a cigarette, black wedge shoes and socks. Yikes!

Mike: Mullet (a must), giant snaggle tooth and a missing tooth (custom made by him), nasty purple corsage, cut-off blazer with plaid shirt and orange bow-tie, ripped up jeans and steal toe boots. We were both nasty!

Laurel's cute decorations...

Our pumpkin and costumes did win!

Here is more of a full body, but kind of blurry.

So on October 24th we had our first Snow Day, of many I'm sure! It was a super heavy wet snow and because all the leaves are still on the trees is caused so many branches to break which also caused power outages everywhere. It was bad new for our neighbor for sure and we were woken up by branches hitting our home, but luckily didn't suffer any power outages. By 9am we were outside in our snowsuits playing as Vienna was upset that preschool was cancelled.

Getting ready to go play

After playing outside, waiting to drink Apple cider.

Vienna's already too short snowsuit (but I'm grateful for the hand-me-down)

Lincoln in his $10 snowsuit I got on clearance at the end of last year! Fits perfect!

They are so cute together!

Healthy snack...snow!

We do family home evening on Sunday mornings, we find the kids get so much more out of it b/c its morning and its a fun time to prepare, especially when I was working on Mondays and we were both so exhausted. It has been great for our family. We are basically just following the primary lesson outline to plan our lessons and Mike and I alternate each week. Daddy always plays the piano for us and I was going potty while he warmed up and I came out of the bathroom to this...

2 adorable kiddos waiting to sing our opening hymn of "The Spirit of God" 

It was too cute! I just love these kiddos!

Unfortunately at our ward Chili cook-off and Trunk-or-treat, it was so busy and tons going on that we didn't take any pictures, however we still have Halloween night to get these cute ones in their pirate costumes. It's so cute how Lincoln even know what to say, "Arghh" Luckily it's suppose to be warm too. My fingers are crossed! Stay tuned for pics of them.