Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!

Another tradition we have, which just started last year, is trick-r-treating down Hillcrest Avenue here in Louisville. It's right in our neighborhood, which makes it convenient, and just about everyone on the block goes ALL out for Halloween. It's a tourist attraction for the whole month of October. And it's so fun to see all the decorations. We go rather early as to avoid the crowds, in fact this year we left our house at 5:30 and timed it just right! Alexa loved to "tick teet" and she'd say "peez" and "tane too" at every house.
It was pretty cute. Alexa's chicken costume was a hit, even landing an inside appearance at one of the houses so the 84 year old grandmother could get a look at her!
We even met up with a couple other chickens!! We had a great night. Halloween sure is more fun with kids...and thanks to Alexa, we scored some good candy!! :-)

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Carving Pumpkins

In preparation for Halloween, we needed to carve our pumpkins. We let Alexa decorate her own pumpkin this year and she loved it.
She's pretty proud of her lil' punkin!
And here's our own lil' punkin last year...
And now this year...she's grown up quite a bit!!
We have a tradition in our house that Kevin cuts out the top of the pumpkin and then cleans it out. Then I carve it. I think it's a pretty good system!! Here he is working hard...notice the concentration!
Alexa had to "peek" at what daddy was doing. I think she "peeked" about 15 times in the short time that Kevin was cleaning it out.
The carver at work, with my little helper!!
And the finished product! Turned out pretty well, even if I do say so myself! :-)

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Music Makers Trick-r-Treat

Our Stake has a program called Music Makers for toddler age kids every Wednesday morning at the Stake Center. They always do a Halloween one and so even though we don't make it that often, we wanted to go for this one. Alexa was the cutest chicken and here she is with "the guys", Olan & Quincy Carter. We tried to get Nathan to be in the picture too but he wasn't in the mood!
I even looked a little festive!!