Oct 27-30

Oct 27-30

It's that time of the year, and the girls were happy to dress up as many times as possible!  Before Halloween they got to go to a party at their friends', Porter and Khole's house, and dress up for their school parade.  I'm pretty sure they tried their costumes on multiple times too!  Emilyn fell in love with this pirate costume from Costco, and I also found the perfect SWAT team police officer costume there for Lucas.  The only other one we considered for him was a tractor/digger costume, which he would have loved, but we never got around to creating!  Matisyn had a hard time deciding this year.  Grandma Karen called us from a Halloween store and sent Matisyn some pictures of some choices.  She was very patient while Matisyn kept asking to see more!  I was surprised that she was not interested in any of the normal "girly" costumes, and kept considering the more "tough" costumes!  She finally decided on a ninja, and there ended up being this fun girl ninja choice.  They all looked really cute, and were happy with their choices.

Emilyn loves holding baby sister!  She wanted to hold her before leaving for school one day to get her baby fix!

Bath time for baby sis, she is a happy girl in the sink.  She's starting to kick off and hit her head though, so we might need to wait until she can sit up in there for more sink baths.

Kaylee sporting some Halloween spirit for the elementary school parade day.

We picked pumpkins at the pumpkin patch earlier in the month, and finally got around to carving them.  The girls loved digging out their pumpkins, and for Matisyn it was no easy task.  Her white one was HUGE!  Lucas, however, did NOT think touching the pumpkin guts was fun.  He wanted nothing to do with the whole thing!  He was happy to watch, and use the tools as long as he didn't touch any insides.

Kaylee liked observing the pumpkin carving chaos

When we saw the cleaned out pumpkin and our cute baby, we couldn't resist putting Kaylee inside!  She didn't seem to mind at all either.  She's even cuter in a pumpkin!

Then the girls had to try out climbing in a pumpkin too!

Our little pumpkin family!  Emilyn wanted a pirate to match her costume, and Matisyn wanted a girl vampire.

Matisyn has loved activity days with the girls from our ward.  She looks forward to going a couple times a month.  They sent this picture to us after an activity where the girls got to practice being missionaries.  They dressed up, got a mission call, and taught people around the church to learn how it works.

Lucas loved wearing his SWAT costume to the school to watch the parade.  He was excited to find his buddy Owen in his Captain America costume too.  They are so funny together, dancing and singing to the music!

Baby Kaylee happily slept through the parade.

Lucas loves his tools from his police belt.  Here he is looking through his binoculars.  The whistle was his favorite, and I had to keep reminding him he couldn't blow it inside the school!

Lucas was not interested in a picture.  It took a few tries, but at least I got all four together without anyone crying!  I'm pretty sure it took bribery!

Kenzie took this cute picture of Lucas