As some of you may already know, Kayley is really into Dorothy right now! She loves Dorothy everything. So, we dressed up as a Wizard of Oz family this year for Halloween. Kayley was obviously Dorothy, Cora was the Wicked Witch of the West, I was Glenda the good witch and Nick was the scarecrow. The costumes weren't too extravagant as I was just lucky to get Nick to dress up in general!! :) I did however spend a lot of time (a whole night in fact) fixing Cora's green gloves, which she refused to wear half the time! The wicked witch's skin is bright green so I searched everywhere for green gloves and green socks as I knew if I were to paint her face or skin, that wouldn't go over very well. The only green gloves I could find were adult gardening gloves at Target...luckily the were only 50 cents so if I did mess them up, I wasn't wasting much money. But I made them smaller to fit her hands, which did take literally all night! It was cute though as she would say "I'm going to get you my pretty and your little dog too!" I can't type it as cute as she would say it, but it was cute! So here is all of us at the ward party before Halloween! And of course Cora refused to wear her gloves in this pic, but they are on in other pics below.
These are pics of the Halloween party at Michelle's house. They did a bunch of fun games and here are pics of the cake walk type game and the broom/pumpkin game (not really sure what the official names of the games were, but the kids had fun doing them!
Here's some more pics of the girls' costumes. We went trick or treating with the Carles, I mean the transformer (Edward), the southern Belle (Olivia), The mad scientist (Judson), and Tinkerbell (Katrina). The kids had fun, but we didn't get to go as long as we wanted to as they got hungry fast. But it was fun to do it with friends and family.
Then I have to admit that these pictures are actually taken a whole week after Hallowwen! yes we didn't have our pumpkins carved in time for Halloween, but the kids didn't seem to mind at all! We of course couldn't get the girls to even touch the inside, but it was still fun. Nick told the girls stories with the pumpkin telling it. The pumpkin's name was Harry I believe, but it was cute cause we had the lights off with the candle in it and the girls really thought the pumpkin was the storyteller!
Also a couple of weeks ago we went down to Willard and took another trip to Silver Dollar City. I've never seen it so packed in my life! It was the opening day of their Christmas festivities and it was nuts! We waited 20 min just to park our car! So we had to decide/cut down our plans for the day on rides/shows. We did fit in one ride on the frogs with the girls (their fav ride!) then the living nativity show, then we split and I took Cora on the butterfly ride and Nick took Kayley on the elephant ride, then we met and did the Frosty the snowman show. Then we squeezed in for a spot for the light parade. After the parade was over, the police officer was behind the last light display and behind him was a mob of people, so we grabbed all our stuff and walked right behind the police officer, it again took us 20 min to get out of the park and to our car...but it was fun and the girls had fun so it made for some fun memories!
This month the girls have also been doing Gymnastics. It has been so fun watching them do their classes! Kayley does the class with the teacher and Cora is in parent/tot class where one of us have to be with her throughout the class. The teacher has been great and the girls have loved every bit of their classes. It's cute to watch them get all ready in their gymnastics clothes and get excited to go to their class. Here are some pics of their classes.
