So I just think Isaac made the perfect Yoda. He reminds me of Yoda because he is so bald and his ears stick out. When Bella was a baby I also thought she looked like Yoda, in fact I had a little song about her being the "Snow White, Yoda, Cheek E"
Isaac loves to eat his clothes and the Yoda costume was especially easy to eat since the robe was so big.
Bella's hair was just long enough to make two little buns on the side of her head. 
I got the material for her costume on sale for $1 - you can't beat that! It doesn't look to bad for my not so great sewing skills. Just don't look closely!
Samuel loved being Darth Vader. And he loves his light saber. He was so funny because he would tell us Darth Vader says "Trick or Treat" and he would try and make his voice go really low.
The kids enjoying some candy after our night at the Trunk or Treat and Trick or Treating.
After the Trunk or Treat at the park, we took the kids to a few of our neighbors homes from our old ward to trick or treat. Because they don't get many trick or treaters in this neighborhood, they gave the kids a lot of candy. Bella just made herself at home and couldn't even wait to get in the car before she started sampling the goodies. I sure do miss our dear sweet neighbor Sister Bodon - truly a great woman of Christ like service. I was so glad we stopped to see her because she said she was hoping we would come.
Friday morning I made the kids orange pancakes for Halloween. They enjoyed helping me make them especially when we added the food coloring, but they weren't so sure about eating them. Bella did eat hers, but Samuel took one bite and then said he was done. It's amazing he won't eat pancakes even with a lot of syrup.
Yum, Yum!
Taking turns helping stir the orange batter.
We took the easy way this year with decorating our pumpkins. I thought about carving them, then decided the kids wouldn't really be able to help. Then I thought about painting them, but late the other night that sounded like a lot of mess I wasn't in the mood to clean up. I finally decided to just have them use markers and draw on them. They thought this was great and didn't realize mom was just being lazy!
We had our Ward Halloween Party this week. The kids had a great time playing the games and getting candy. Samuel was so relieved they weren't any Hulk costumes. He's been a little uptight about scary Halloween costumes, but he did great. Both kids were a little scared of our cute neighbor girl that comes once a week and watches them. She was dressed as a zombie and did look pretty scary. 
Big Buddy eating his trophy he won for the most original costume. The Young Women were in charge of giving the costume awards. Chuck and I laughed because we didn't think Yoda was too original of a costume, but he sure did look cute so I guess they just couldn't help giving him an award.
I tagged along with Trina and her friends for a girls night out to see Thriller. I left all the kids with Chuck for the evening and it was wonderful! I need more of these nights away! The show was good, but scary.
Trina and I with one of the scary women. She looked so bad, but had a sweet voice when we asked to get a picture with her.
Trina's cute neighbor girls that let me hang out with them for the night.
I decided to make Halloween sugar cookies with the kids. Making cookies with a 2 and 3 year old is a little crazy, but they loved it. Samuel decided he wanted the frosting to be blue so we had yummy blue pumpkin and ghost cookies.
Chuck and I went to a Halloween party without the kids this weekend! We got these Greese costumes a few years ago and broke them out for the party. I should have taken a picture of the back of my hair. I used my steam curlers that I haven't used in years and forgot how curly they make my hair. And Chuck had on the worst wig you have seen. He insisted it was better than his own hair, but I would have to disagree!
So this same scene has played out a couple of times the last week. Bella goes to her room for a "nap"/quiet time or how big of a mess can I make in my room time and goes poop. She has now decided she can change her own diaper. So she takes the poopy diaper off, climbs up into the closet to retrieve the wipes and uses half the pack cleaning herself up and gets dressed again. Now this would be great except for the fact that she sits on the floor with the dirty poop bum to do it. Probably can't tell from the picture, but there are two nice poop stains on my new carpet! And as I said this has happened a few times this week - there have been a few more of these nice stains. So I've decided potty training is a must now and will be taking the advice of a friend to put her in a onesie during "nap" time so maybe she can't get her diaper off! (Okay so as an update I tried the onesie and when I went to get her from her room she was completely naked again. So anyone have any more ideas?
For Bella's birthday we got her this cute play kitchen. Poor Chuck didn't get home from City Council until late Thursday and then he stayed up until 1:00 a.m. putting the thing together so we could have it ready for Bella when she got up Friday morning.
Both of the kids really like the new kitchen, but it has become yet another thing for them to fight about. Here is Samuel throwing a fit on the floor.
For Bella's birthday dinner we got nuggets and fries from Wendy's and took it to the park. The weather has been beautiful all this week so we are taking advantage of it.
Bella playing at the park.
Chuck and Big Buddy going down the slide.
Chuck finally got Samuel to climb the rock wall all by himself. The kids loved spending the evening playing at the park with their daddy!
