Halloween 2013

This past Halloween was a lot of fun! Earlier in the week we went over to our friends the Searcy's house and carved pumpkins with them and our friends the Smith's. They have had a pumpkin carving tradition together for lots of years now and we've been lucky enough to partake in the festivities with them the past two years in a row!



 It was so much fun and I laughed harder then I had in a long time! Like "laughing with tears rolling down my cheeks" hard! Annie accidentally cut out the top of a pumpkin that her husband Justin had already cut the bottom out of, only she didn't discover it until it was too late! What she ended up with was a pumpkin donut! Haha it still makes me laugh looking at this picture!

Then on Halloween night we went trick-or-treating at our friends the Turners house for the third year in a row! 

This was all the boys from 2011-the first year we went trick-or-treating at the Turners house. Sawyer was age two and dressed up as a dinosaur. Look how little they all are!

Halloween 2012

Sawyer is the happy snake in the backrow and there are two new additions: Luke-the little superhero in the front and Natalie the flower hanging out in the stroller. Landon and Blake were also here this year, but aren't in the photo. All together we had nine boys and one girl! 

Halloween 2013

Micah and Luke moved to Utah earlier this year so we missed seeing them! Natalie was also here as a chicken, but wasn't into having her photo taken. So on the top row we have Sawyer as Jake the pirate, Braden as a minion from the Despicable Me 2 movie, Ben as a dragon; middle row is Landon as a lion tamer; bottom row is Landon's little brother Blake as his lion, Jesse as a Despicable me 2 character and Cody as a pirate. 

We had dinner at the Turners house first, followed by trick-or-treating around their neighborhood and then we ended the night at our church's Harvest Party. Sawyer was a candy fiend the whole night, scarfing down as many Reese's he could get his sticky, chocolate covered hands on. My friend Mary gave me a great idea earlier in the week on how to get rid of the rest of the candy so that he wasn't feasting on sugar for the next couple weeks. It was genius! When we got home we told him he could take out 10 pieces to save and then if he left the rest of his candy out for Esmerelda the witch then she would leave a present for him in exchange. 

Thankfully he agreed because I had just bought a Jake the Pirate puzzle that morning hoping he would go along with the idea! He was way excited to wake up and see what Esmerelda left him and the puzzle was way better than candy, not to mention that night Matt and I got to go through his stash of candy and pick out our favorites :) 

A couple days after Halloween Sawyer had his first dentist appointment. He was such a champ! The last time Matt and I went to the dentist we brought Sawyer back to watch so he knew what to expect. Our dental hygeinist is awesome and was so good with him. He's been really good about flossing and brushing, although we still have to finish burshing his teeth at the end to make sure he's gotten all his teeth. We stole another idea from our friends the Holbrook's who give each kid a dollar for every year old they are if they come back from the dentist with no cavities. So at the end of his visit Sawyer got four dollars! No cavities (for anyone of us! wahoo!) was good news, but we did find out that Sawyer has a small mouth so his teeth are really crowded together. Given my history of having the same problem and needing spacers, braces and headgear, combined with Matt's history of needing braces AND jaw surgery the news didn't come as a huge surprise. We will probably be taking him to an orthodontist after all his baby teeth come out to see if we can start correcting the problem sooner rather than later. 

And yes, Sawyer likes to rock the Napoleon Dynamite look with the snow boots on. He has been wearing them for a week now.