THE POLAR EXPRESS

Our great friends and neighbors gave us their tickets this year to ride the Polar Express! To say the kids were super excited is an understatement! We decided to take the late train which left at 7:30. With the gentle rocking of the train Garrett was having a hard time staying awake!

The elf's brought around cookies and hot chocolate and they read the Polar Express Story!Finally Santa made his debut...Garrett was so sleepy he didn't know what to think he basically just glared at him! He did finally take the bell that he was giving the kids!

When the train first started out the elf's came around and asked each kid what their name was and what they wanted Santa to bring them for Christmas. Justin told the elf that he wanted a Nintendo DS. So when he seen that Santa didn't have his DS he could not figure out why
I had to explain that Santa was just trying to find out what each little boy wanted for Christmas and that he would probably bring his DS on Christmas if he was good!! He was so excited about the bell! He was sure it had come from Rudolph's harness!

Right after we seen Santa, Garrett was finished! He was asleep before we even had seen Ms. Clause.

HALLOWEEN

This year for Halloween we had the ward party the week before Halloween! It worked out pretty well my kids loved being able to get dressed up in there costumes and they had a blast. We had a trunk or treat and then we did a small carnival for the kids!! Garrett loved the fishing pond! He would have gone back again and again!

Justin was pretty excited about the cake walk. We had made about 200 cupcakes the morning of the party and I would not let him have one so he could hardly wait to win one!!

Garrett loved his Mickey Mouse costume, he could not get over the fact that it made him fat! Justin wanted to be Batman!

This year Mike searched and searched for a cool design to use for carving the pumpkins but he could not find anything that he wanted so we just let the kids design there own!

Garrett wasn't really into carving his pumpkin he really just wanted Mike to do it for him!

On Halloween night we went to trick or treating to all of our families. The kids had a great time and got lots of candy that neither one of them really ate.