Trick-or-Treating!

Halloween was fun this year... Skyler was excited to be Spiderman, Kimberly was a beautiful Cinderella, & Bailey made a cute little Frog!  The weekend before we went to our Ward's "Trunk-or-Treat."  We invited some new friends of ours that just moved here from Turkey (Nejla, Samil, Azra & Matt Omar Demirnoz) so that made it EXTRA exciting!  Bailey figured out the whole walking from one-trunk-to-another for candy REALLY quick & wouldn't let me hold her candy bucket for her, even when it started getting really full.  She was pretty possessive of that candy!  But the kids had a blast & the weather was great!

On Halloween night the kids were even MORE excited, but unfortunately Bailey's excitement ran out after only a couple of houses, so we only made it around one block (which took 1 1/2 hours!), before we headed off to Grandma & Papa's to show off our costumes... But because we took our time & wasn't in so much of a rush to get the most candy possible, it seemed like we enjoyed the journey more.  And after all, I really don't think we need any more candy around here!

What a fun Halloween!

Glad I've got 3 little kids to make it so enjoyable!

Skyler also had a "Halloween Program" in Kindergarten that was adorable to watch!  He knew all the songs SO well & was singing them for days.  He was SO excited to be able to perform for us & got the biggest grins on his face every time he saw us watching him!  It'll be a pretty cute thing to go back & watch on video!  Love you buddy!

Pumpkin Carving

For Family Home Evening a few weeks before Halloween, we decided to carve pumpkins.  We realized that it's one of those things we haven't really done in the last few years, so now that our kids were old enough to appreciate it, we thought it'd be a lot of fun.  At first the kids were pretty grossed out by the "guts" & wouldn't even touch it, but once I got in there & started doing it and they saw that even MOM was touching it, it suddenly looked a lot funner to them all!

It's kind-of a funny tradition us Americans have, but it's fun nonetheless!

Trying to Help our Sweet Bailey..

I've been feeling pretty helpless with figuring out what's going on with my sweet Bailey lately (after 2 months+ of diarrhea), so after no help from doctor's office to doctor's office, we finally took her to see a Chiropractor to check for any food allergies.  We only got through half of the testing (because Bailey is SO terrified of doctor's offices now!), but she's already come up sensitive to milk, eggs & vitamin C.  So we'll start by treating her on those, then check for any issues with the REST of the list... Hopefully this will help bring back the old, happy Bailey that we know & love!