Halloween weekend was so much fun. It started with Saturday morning. It was Gunner and Braxton's first wrestling matches. So I of course had to go out to support my boys. I wish I would have gotten some pictures but at that time the batteries in my camera decided to die.
This was Gunner's very first wrestling match and it was quite surprising. Gunner is a rough and tumble kind of kid and he is never afraid and is always attacking and wrestling his big brother and friends. But today I saw a very timid, nervous little boy. He didn't win his match but he lost by only a few points, he never got pinned. Towards the end of his match you could tell he was becoming his old self and getting a little mad about not winning. His face became all serious and he started throwing the other kid around.
Braxton lost his first match too, and the same as Gunner never got pinned and lost by only a couple of points. He fought the good fight though. It's amazing to see how much better and more confident these kids get with every passing year.
After the wrestling matches we hopped in the car and headed to Hogle Zoo.
Here is Braxton (the ghoul) and Spiderman (Gunner)...
Cambria, Sadie, and Braxton..
Here is Miss Cambria (zombie dancer) and her friend Sadie (zombie prom queen). They did their own makeup and looked quite good.
We met up with Angel and Jax and Trevon. Here are all the kids while we
were waiting for Angel to park her car.
Here they are again, Braxton the ghoul, Captain Jax Sparrow, Ninja Trevon, Spiderman Gunner, Zombie prom queen Sadie and Zombie dancer Cambria.....
The zoo was a lot of fun. After the first candy stop Gunner took off his mask and began eating the candy as soon as it hit his bucket. Instead of Trick or Treating he was Trick and Eating. Leslie finally had to take his bucket so he would quit eating all his candy. We saw some great costumes and I got to see my favorite animal- the tigers. They were outside and one was just roaming around but the other was taking a nap in the sun. They are such beautiful animals.
After the zoo we went to Village Inn for lunch.
Trevon and Braxton waiting to eat...(aren't they the cutest?!)
Spiderman getting a kiss from his Mommy....
Sadie and Angel...
Cambria and Jax...
When we got back to Leslie's the kids decided that they wanted to carve their pumpkins.
Braxton and Cambria waiting for Leslie to get their pumpkins open....
Time to take out the pumpkin guts! Love Cambria's face....
Sadie was helping Gunner with his pumpkin....
These where big pumpkins with lots of stuff inside,
I don't know if standing on the chair gave Cambria an advantage in cleaning out her pumpkin or not.
While the kids carved I went through the pumpkin guts and gathered up all the seeds for roasting. We had enough seed to cover two large cookie sheets. Leslie found some pumpkin seed recipes on the Internet and she tried two of them They turned out really yummy. I took a baggie of each kind home with me.
Here are the kids with their finished Jack-O-Lanterns....
After that we took Sadie to her grandma's and stopped at the store to find candles for the Jack-O-Lanterns. Then I helped Leslie get her goodie bags done for all her nieces and nephews and a few of her favorite kids.
She made smore's in a bag....she took a graham cracker and a fun size Hershey bar and a Halloween peep (she had ghosts and pumpkins) and put them in a bag. It is a very cute idea and you could do it for any holiday since they are making peeps for more than just Easter.
Sunday afternoon I went to Layton and took Jamie and the boy's to lunch. They picked Jimmy John's.
I had never tried this place but it was very good. They serve sandwiches and these great giant pickles, YUM!
Me and Jax...
Trevon and Jamie....
After we ate we went shopping for the boy's coats. I even bought me a few things. Then I just hung out at Jamie's for a while watching Jax kill zombies and enjoying their company.
Here is Trevon wearing the hat I bought him....he is just too cute!
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