What an "Incredible" Halloween

I have to say that our costumes this year were the best we've come up with so far. It's one thing when 1 person dresses up as an Incredible, but when there are 4 of you, it makes quite the statement. Top it off with some very cute little incredi-boys and you have one very popular costume. We had a blast with it!

This picture makes me smile. They both think the other one looks funny, ha!

We started the Halloween festivities on Friday with Omniture trick-or-treating of course. It has become a fun tradition for us to go see my brother & brother-in-law's completely decked out office buildings. My brother-in-law Josh's department won the $5000 prize for best decorations this year. Their theme was Star Trek and it was pretty amazing. (sorry no pics)

One of the department themes at Omniture was "movies" so obviously, I had to get my picture with Edward. Don't be jealous Bella!

Trying to get a picture with all the kids. When there is that many, there's no worrying about smiles or perfect poses, you just try and get them all in there.

On Saturday, we had another busy day starting with an Ultimate Frisbee game (played in our costumes naturally), followed by my neice Emma's birthday party. She and her Daddy share a birthday on Halloween. We went bowling and did the birthday festivities.

Here's the birthday girl with her amazing Bolt cake (made by my talented sister).

This kid loves to bowl!

And after bowling we hit up Mindy & Josh's ward trunk-or-treat since we missed our own ward party. I tell ya, that's the way to go. It's the quickest way to score on candy.

Dash & a Pirate

Did you ever do this as a kid? I sure did. It was a good way to take stock of what you got :-)

Looks like I loved organizing as a kid too!

And the next 3 pictures are just funny. Every year Halloween just tires this boy out and I have caught in on camera every year. I wonder how many years I can keep this up...

1st Halloween

2nd Halloween

3rd Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Pumpkin Time

Coop had a good time carving out his pumpkins. He enjoyed pulling out the guts and was happy to have a big Y put on his & Daddy's pumpkin.

The finished pumpkins. I decided on a simple Charlie Brown face this year although those little holes and thin lines were not as simple as I thought.

Bahama-mama

I think that's the name of a drink on the cruise ship but it rolled off the tongue nicely making a great title. Thanks to Caleb and his amazing sales abilities, we were able to go on a free cruise with his company Northstar Alarm to the bahamas, (kid free, thanks Mom & Dad!). What a great get-away it was! We took tons of pictures but here are just a few.

Day 1- The life boat drill

Day 2- Freeport, Bahamas

Unfortunately, Caleb and I both caught some sort of bug the night before and spent most of the day laying/sleeping on the beach recovering. Our friends Betty & Cam and Kate & Jeremy had fun building sand castles and such while we were passed out on the chairs.

Kate & Jeremy

Nearing the end of the day, we were feeling a bit better.

Betty & Cam

(I love this picture of them!)

This awesome pool was right off the beach. So cool to swim in it and see the ocean right there.

Formal night & the cute towel bunny.

Day 3- Nassau, Bahamas

We were all better this day (thank goodness!) and headed out to sail a catamaran & snorkel the reef. Not many pictures of this considering the activity!

All I can say is WOW, we look great ;-)

Halloween Night

By far my favorite night on the cruise. I LOVE Halloween and dressing up and apparently, so do alot of the Northstar Employees. We ruled the ship on costumes!

And although we placed 3rd in the contest, I decided we won the People's Choice Award considering the 20 or so pictures we took with random people on the ship and the standing ovations when we walked into rooms. Can't say I didn't love that ;-)

Day 4- On Boat

We spent this day relaxing on the Lido deck, playing a rousing game of shuffleboard, and hitting up the "Not so Newlywed Game". What a day!

Memories

3:00am room service calls for pb&j's; poppin' pills for motion sickness; the Incredibles; our server Panky; our one night of fame; Siamese mermaid; staying up till 3am; sleeping till 12pm; the 12 hour wait time at the airport; Caleb's interesting sunburn; our amazing costumes (yes, they were cool enough to mention 3 times)

PS While we were gone, Coop & Carter had a couple of firsts. As seen below, Coop had his first visit to the ER, unfortunately. He somehow got a hold of a peanut M&M which sent him into a full-on asthma attack plus rash. After some steroid shots (yes, we start them young) he was back to his happy self, charming all the nurses that came in the room. Carter received his first tooth. Thankfully, that was it for him. After alot of drama, I'm not sure my parents will ever be up for watching our kids again. Good thing we got in at least 1 cruise ;-)

Congratulations are in order

To my hard working hubby who finished off his 5th year of summer sales. Way to go babe!

Here he is standing at the Northstar banquet with his spoils from the summer incentives

(skis & nixon watch...his 2nd and 3rd love :-).

Hogle Zoo

We have visited several zoos around the country throughout our summer travels but in all my 7 years of living in Utah, this was our first time hitting up the Hogle Zoo. And although we've seen every single one of these animals before, it still amazes me to see them up close and personal again.

Not only was there an adorable new baby elephant but there was also a baby giraffe and 3 new baby tigers. So cute!

And may I add how fun it is to be home in Utah again being able to do all these things with my sister Mindy and kids. It just makes everything doubly fun!

Pumpkin Land

I just love the end of the year; how each month culminates with its own exciting holiday. It gives us a myriad of new things to experience and it seems to send the year out with a bang.

This October we headed out to Pumpkin Land which housed a corn maze, bounce house, and of course a pumpkin patch. I got some great pictures of my sister and her kids but when it came turn for my kids, I think they were all smiled out. Oh well, there’s always Thanksgiving!

And this picture will go in my book of all time favorite pictures of these two. What a pair!

Fall Family Pictures

While here in Indianapolis, I have had the wonderful opportunity to take a photography class given by a photographer in my ward. Every week we focus on something different and this past week it was on group portraits. Those participating in the class took turns being the models and photographers. These were just some of the pictures taken by the budding photographers in the Indianapolis 1st ward.