Halloween Festivities!!
Our halloween fun started the weekend before halloween with our annual Christianson party. It wasn't quite the same without my parents here, but we still had a fun time!!
This is the only family shot we got all week and it was right before the party.This is one of my favorite pics of the week. Brad is so fun and I smile every time I see this picture!

Burke was Superman for the party, but we soon discovered that it was way to big so it was only worn once. Thank goodness for back up costumes!

Ashton was thrilled with his batman costume which was a last minute purchase. He didn't stop smiling the whole time he wore it.

Ellie was a witch for the party and doesn't she look scary??

Braxton was a ninja for the party but was Indiana Jones for trick or treating. This was a popular costume and Burke was a ninja for trick or treating.

This is Mandi and Tyler. They looked so great! Tyler always puts up a fight about dressing up and then he always looks fantastic!!

This is the majority of the grandkids. They were so excited they ran around like maniacs for the first 45 mintues of the party. It was cheap entertainment!

This is Mandi, Rebecca and me. We are not a complete set without Molly and my mom though.

The Heaps clan.

Mason was so cute I had to throw this picture in. He is so smiley and happy!

A few days before halloween we found the coolest halloween activity! There is this family who sets up this sweet train ride called the Nightmare Express. It was free so we thought we'd check it out. It was so worth it!

This was a little booth set up on the way into the waiting area. You can smell the fear can't you?

While you wait for your train they have this theater set up in this big garage. They have halloween cartoons playing. It was so neat. The kids sat wonderfully!

Then when you train is almost ready they take you out under a tent where they have lights set up singing songs; the best part is that it is all disney themed-we all know how our family feels about disney right?

This is the little train. Is it so cute? I didn't take any pictures while we were riding, but it was themed from the movie Nightmare Before Christmas and they had a Pirates of the Carribean room. I recommend it to anyone next year.

One of my favorite activities this year was carving pumpkins. Ricky's brother was here from Montana with his family and they came over and Ricky's parents. It was spur of the moment really and it ended up being really fun. I think we carved 10 pumpkins all together. It took all afternoon and evening. Ricky and Ryan are pretty intense carvers, and their pumpkins took forever! They ended up awesome though!

Ryan carved Walt Disney and you can see it was great! These pictures were blury and I was bugged, but what can you do?

Ricky carved Albert Einstein and looked really good as well.

The kids all wore their costumes to school for their parties on Friday and were so excited! I didn't get a picture of Brax and Burke before they left, but Ash and Ellie were more than happy to pose for pictures.
I have to say that I loved Ellie's super girl costume!

Brad and Briar wore their costumes to watch the kids in the school parade. They were so cute!

This year I helped with Ellie's class party and it was fun. It is always fun to go to their classroom and see how things work.

Saturday was our big celebration day since halloween was on Sunday.
We went to Hee Haw Farms for some fun. They have this huge slide that was the kids favorite activity I think.

These big go cart thingies were also a favorite.

They are pretty hard to pedal so the kids needed help here and there.

Paityn and Amy ridin' the slide!

This is Ellie jumping off the hay jump! She worked up her courage to jump off the very top. She is my fearless child!

Group shot on the trick or treat hay ride.

This is the animal train ride. The kids were having so much fun they wouldn't look at me. Bradley has been watching the movie Balto and he howled like a wolf the whole ride. It was quite funny!!

This is classic Ashton. His faces are the best!

Ellie, Briar, Bradley and Paityn being silly.

Briar loved the horse ride. She is such a cutie!

Bradley also loved the horse ride and howled like Balto the whole time, again.

Brax, being a farmer!

The best part of the day was the pig chase at the end. All the kids took their turn trying to catch a pig. We laughed and laughed!

Ellie won her age and got free popcorn. The best was when Ricky and Ryan paired up and had to catch a pig and wheelbarrow race the poor thing in between them. I filmed it but couldn't get it on here. I thought for sure I was going to pee my pants! We were dying watching them with this poor piglet being drug around the pen! If you want to watch a video, go to youtube and look up rick and ryan pig wheelbarrow. It is slow at the beginning, but you can get the idea.

Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of trickortreating because it was pouring rain and we were soaking wet!