Book of Mormon Party

Each year when we finish reading the Book of Mormon as a family we have a Book of Mormon party.  The kids decided this years part was the best we have had.  We went to a place called "Dave,s Need For Speed."  We raced go-carts, played miniature golf, and laser tag.  It was a lot of fun because we were the only people at the whole place so we could let Abigail and Ryan play with us on everything.  Abigail was not of fan of laser tag, and I ended up holding her gun the whole time, but other than that we had a great time.  We ended the night with a trip to Ruby Tequila's for fajitas.  This simple celebration has become one of our kids favorite traditions.  They are always excited when we are getting near the end of the Book of Mormon.

Halloween

Halloween was a little different this year since it was on Sunday.  We didn't go trick or treating, but we had lots of parties leading up to Halloween.  We had a playgroup party at our house on Wednesday for Ryan and Abigail.  We had trunk-or-treat on Thursday, and Friday Emily, Tyson, and Justin all had a Halloween party at the house.  It was all  a lot of fun.  We used to have Halloween parties every year, and as life has gotten busier we had stopped, but I am glad we started it up again.  I decorated the basement and the kids had a dinner of Bat Wings and pumpkin guts (chips and Queso) Monster bones and oozing coffins (ribs and twice baked stuffed potatoes) and cooled mice and eyeball for dessert.  I learned with so many kids it would have been better just to have pizza.  The cooled mice turned out pretty realistic, here is a picture of them.

The kids had a contest girls against boys dressing someone up with napkins and tape.  There was a lot of dispute about who made the best costume.  You can look and decide for yourself who did the best job.

They ended the night with a game of capture the pumpkin outside.

Here are a few pictures of the kids dressed up in their costumes.  We didn't do a lot with costumes this year since we weren't going trick-or-treating.

Justin as Mario

Abigail as a princess

Tyson as a jail bird and Ryan as a Police officer

Emily as a mad scientist.  She and her friend dressed up as thing 1 and thing 2 for a Halloween party earlier, but I didn't get a picture.  Here friend was sick for the trunk-or-treat so we had to come up with something else quickly.