"Smile honey, show us you are having a great time!"

The finished product...

Love the way that stringy stuff feels between the fingers....

Yesterday we carved the home-grown pumpkins. Of course Dallin and Camryn were thrilled about it...Tanner was off rip-sticking with friends, and Mom and Dad were happy as could be! I think the vinyl was much more efficient, but these moments are ones we just can't replace!

Hay ride...minus the hay???

...and they said you have to be 10 to ride this machine!

What a fun day with cousins at the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point. The kids had a great time with all sorts of blow up slides, non-scary haunted houses, carnival games, huge fun pedal go-carts, a hay ride, and even the news helicopter showed up! You guessed it, Lane was at work and Tanner was too old for such fun. He went to the movie with McKay, his friend. Sorry to say I didn't get a photo of that.

Halloween Day at the Hansen Household...Teenager in pajamas, Dr. Baby Mama, and Hairy Scary Skinny Bones

Happy Halloween! The kids got some fun mail from their grandma and grandpa....lucky. It's always fun when it includes cash money.... Also today, the two younger kids had a great day of school, Halloween parties and early out. What more could we ask for from public education! And then there is Tanner, no school today because the quarter ended....therefore he's sporting p.j.'s even though it is afternoon and the other two just got home from school. So, I guess he dressed up like a lazy teenager! Oh wait, that's NO COSTUME!

Skinny Bones....that was no stretch! Mr. Skinny himself decided that he wanted to be a CREEPY skeleton for Halloween. We almost didn't even need an outfit for this kid, his pants are constantly falling off because he has no meat on his bones, but we put this costume together and he was thrilled! Other than making one small child cry, (not even joking...poor kid) the night trick-or-treating went quite well. We scored!!! Notice the we........

You guessed it, Camryn and her LOVE of babies couldn't escape the Halloween costume....she has been planning it for months! She had to be a doctor holding babies. One of our neighbors recently had a baby, and she has been down there almost every day to "help" with the baby. Good thing that the lady has 4 other kids, and really says she loves her coming because she happens to go help right about when it's time for her to make dinner. So Camryn's help holding the baby has been good. I made her promise that if she gets sick of her to send her back this way. Today "was the best day of my life" as Camryn put it. Kristy, the neighbor let her walk around holding the baby. Wow, it doesn't take much!!!