The Dahle Family: November 2010

We love fall and our kids absolutely love playing in piles of leaves. So I took the opportunity the other day to get them dressed up and have a bit of a photo shoot on my own. I'm always trying to figure out different ways to take pictures and after reading my camera manual for a bit I decided it would be best to just go and try taking some pictures. So we loaded up in the truck and drove around a bit until we found some great leaf piles. The pictures were pretty difficult to take and the kids weren't too excited about getting pictures taken again, but they put up with me and gave me a little bit of time to play. In case you are wondering, I dressed them in the same clothes as our family photos in hopes of getting a good picture of all 3 of them together. One day I will figure out a way to get all 3 of them to look at the camera at the same time, yeah right!

This one cracks me up. I thought if the kids would throw leaves in the air it would keep Myles attention for just a second, but oh no the minute they let go of his hands he was making his escape to get to the curb.

Of course we have to end with the goofy faces!

Who doesn't love Halloween? I know it is one of my favorite holidays even though it totally stresses me out trying to get costumes put together. Fall is definitely my favorite season as well and the Halloween candy is always a good bonus. This is a really long post and I apologize, but I figured it would be easier just to clump the whole Halloween experience into one post.

This year we started out our Halloween festivities by carving pumpkins. Thanks to Lynn's cousin Whitney for providing us with the pumpkins again.

Myles was very interested to see what was inside.

What is that awful smell?

One last look, I never could get him to look at me. I guess the pumpkin was way more interesting.

Madi did a great job scooping out the guts.

Parker was very excited to get carving.

On the Friday before the Halloween weekend, the Parker and Madi's school had a Halloween parade to show off their costumes. I went and helped with parties in both of their classrooms that day and then Myles and I got to watch the parade of all the kids in their costumes.

Tiger Lilly

Darth Vader without the mask.

That afternoon, we went to a nursing home here in town with my friend Amie and her kids, and got to go trick-or-treating. We haven't ever done this and it was actually a lot of fun. The residents were sitting outside of their rooms with candy in their laps. Some handed it to the kids and others just let the kids take a piece. Some of them were even dressed up a little themselves. It was great fun and a good experience for the kids.

Stockton, Parker, Myles, Madi, Abbie, forgot the name of Alice in Wonderland and Sawyer is dressed as Woody

Myles absolutely loved his first sucker.

It was adorable to see how happy he was with the treat.

Antonio (say it with an accent)

Then on the Saturday before Halloween day, we went and did our yearly tradition of trick-or-treating in downtown Logan with the Johnson kids. Julie and I have been doing this for quite a few years now and we always have a great time. It wasn't the warmest and luckily Lynn stayed home with Myles so that he could have a nap (Myles not Lynn). Julie also left her youngest home as well and we both commented on how nice it was to not have strollers this year. It went a lot faster. Which was good since it started to rain right as we were finishing up.

Parker, Madi, Porter, Lexi and Garrett

Now with masks...Darth Vader, Tiger Lilly, Bumblebee Transformer, Witch and the Grim Reaper

That night we were off to our ward Fall Festival Carnival. There were some great games and treats for the kids and everyone had a wonderful time.

Madi getting a little assistance at the donut eating contest.

Apparently Parker had a little assistance as well.

The Young Women were in charge of the face painting and did a fantastic job!

Madi at the cake walk, but really they got cookies so I guess it was a cookie walk.

Parker with one of his best buddies, Porter.

Antonio (say it with an accent)

After the ward party, Lynn took the kids trick-or-treating to some of the neighbors and I stayed home with Myles to hand out candy. Myles was cracking me up because each time I opened the door he would start crawling towards the door as fast as he could and try to escape. Some of the times he didn't make it in time and I shut the door before he was able to make it out and boy would he throw a fit. It was really cute.

The weather wasn't the greatest for the Halloween celebrations so I had my kids dress up one last time a few days later just so we could get some more decent pictures. Pathetic, I know.

Antonio (say it with an accent)

Parker, Myles and Madi

Cutest Tiger Lilly I've ever seen. Luckily her costume was the only one I had to make this year. She had two pumpkins, the one on the left is Sponge Bob that we carved at home and the one on the right is the pumpkin she won in her Kindergarten class. They carved some in class and then had a drawing to see who got to take it home.