Fall Festivities

I feel a little back logged even though I've been trying to keep this blog up better! I wanted to catch up before Halloween because I'll have a whole new batch of pics I'm sure. This time of year is always so fun, lots to do, lots to be excited about. Today we got invited to a little Halloween party a girl in our ward was putting on for some of the neighborhood kiddos. I was excited because I found a little zebra headband and tail in our Halloween box that I must have bought on clearance last year, and since I'm not quite done with Tori's real costume, this was a good, easily thrown together, reason to dress her up. I thought it was pretty cute, even though she wouldn't turn around for a front view!

Tori suffers from some sort of social anxiety or something, because she didn't exactly love the idea of all the other kids and has been struggling in nursery, so she spent most the time whimpering and clinging to my leg. I really do try to expose her to stuff, so I'm not sure why she's anti-social, but the party was fun, and she made a little sucker ghost and cut out, so I guess we'll take it slow and hopefully someday she'll enjoy playing with kids.

Tonight, Brandon and I tried our hands at caramel apples. Brandon is seriously the funnest husband. It was his idea, and I initially thought it sounded stupid because caramel apples never turn out...at least not like Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. However, I stand corrected again, and not only was it fun, but they actually turned out really good.
We got little M&M's and crushed butterfinger to top it off! Quite delicious I have to admit! Credit goes to my awesome hubby! Taking into mind my uncoordination in the kitchen, I tried to cover up my first apple which basicly turned into a caramel apple with a huge growth of M&M's at the bottom. Brandon reassured me that would definitely taste really good.

And like everyone else, we got our pumpkins carved this week. For Tori we decided to let her decorate one with jewel stickers and markers.

Of course, the jewels inevitably ended up on her face. What can I say? She takes after her mama....we like our bling! And this is how her Princess Pumpkin turned out...with a little help from me! It might seem like I took over this whole project, which I did, but she did get most of the jewels on herself.

Here's the whole lot of them lit up! Brandon did the two on top, and mine is the skull and cross bones DIMMLY lit at the bottom of the pic!

We didn't end up getting our pumpkins from a pumpkin patch this year, although we did go! Just the pickings were pretty slim, but we were lucky to go with 3 of our Dean cousins the weekend Mandy came up to visit!

Here we are on the hayride with Tori of course gazing off at something and other!

And saving the best for the last, Tori with her cousins Taya and Cody, both her age. Tara wanted to throw together a mini photo shoot and I'm glad she did, because I thought these turned out pretty cute.....I mean come on, babies on pumpkins!