Halloween!

Halloween is always fun!! This year Halloween was a little different than usual. Darin and I both got to stay home and give out the candy. Eyn went to a "teen" party at a friends home in our ward. Trent went trick or treating with a friend from school and Amberly went out with a friend from down the street. It was kinda quiet. They all seemed to have a lot of fun! Trent and Amberly both came home with oodles of goodies! Talk about sugar overload! Eyn said he had a lot of fun at his party. So, I guess you can say it was a very successful evening!

What would Halloween be without a black cat?!? This is our cat "Katy". I had to include her!

Amberly was our little witch this year!
This is Amberly and her friend Skye from down the street. She was a witch also.

Eyn and Katy. Katy didn't know what to think of Eyn's mask. He thought she would be scared off by it, but she's too good for that! She leaned over and sniffed his face! It was cute.

Eyn ready for his party. No, we don't usually do masks and I think he wore it on top of his head most of the evening. He did look good though! He answered the door for some trick or treaters for a little while before he left for the party and got some good responses from them.

I feel really bad because I failed to get a picture of Trent! He looked awesome all decked out as a Star Trek Officer. He is quite the Trekie and looked great!!

Hope you all had a great HaLlOweEn!!!

McShane Family Pumpkin Carving Traditon

For as long as I can remember the McShane family has been carving pumpkins for Halloween. This year Amberly wanted to do them as part of her family home evening. Don't ask me when, but it became a boys vs girls pumpkin contest of sorts. There's never a winner, because they each look great. But we work together as teams and have a great time! It's always fun to see what designs each team will come up with!

This year the boys team actually took one pumpkin and each designed their own faces for the different sides of the pumpkin. It came out great!

Trent and his side of the pumpkin

Eyn with his creationDarin

(yes, that's a bead necklace around his neck. For some crazy reason Amberly had Darin and myself wear long beads during the carving!)

Amberly and I decided to do a two sided pumpkin. One side had a funny face on it and the other was in honor of Elizabeth who is at BYU-Idaho. We missed her help on our pumpkin this year!! (She actually called us while we were working on our pumpkins and let us know that that's what her Family Home Evening group were doing that evening also! They even had caramel apples for dessert like we did!)

Amberly and our cooky pumpkin!

Thanks for the great Family home evening Amberly!!

Halloween!

Halloween is such a fun holiday! It was extra special this year because it was on a Friday and we didn't have to worry about getting up for school/work the next day! Here's how our night went...

Elizabeth had to sing the National Anthem at the High School Football game so she went there first and then left the game after singing and came home and changed into her costume and went to a party some friends from choir were having. She had a blast and got home around Midnight wanting to tell us all about it! I failed to get a picture of her on my camera. Bummer!!

Eyn was our candy disperser for the evening. We noticed that there wasn't as many trick or treaters this year. I don't think he minded because he liked the leftovers.

Trent and Amberly had a great time roaming throughout our entire neighborhood. We followed them around part of the time with the top down in Darin's car. It was a beautiful night to be out!

They returned home exhausted but with bags full of treasure! I guess you can say it was a successful evening!

Trent has become quite the Star Trek fan and so of course he had to go as out

as Captain Trent McShane.

Trent and Amberly ready to attack the neighborhood!

Amberly as Dorothy. She was excited because Elizabeth did her make-up for the night. Amberly loves to dress up!

Happy Halloween 2008!!

Kindergarten Book Character Parade

Today the Kindergarten classes at our school had a Book Character Parade. Each student picked a book and dressed up as a character in it. Amberly chose The Wizard of Oz and dressed up as Dorothy. She looked adorable! She really wanted to be Dorothy because she wanted to take her Puppy to school. Here is Ms. Ljungdahl Amberly's Kindergarten teacher dressed up as Minnie Mouse. Her class is lined up after her.
Here comes Amberly! Aren't they all cute! They invited all the parents to come up and after the children paraded the school for all the other grade levels they came out and paraded for us!

Beautiful Amberly starring as Dorothy!

Pumpkin Carving

Each year our family has fun carving pumpkins. We have always done a boys pumpkin and a girls pumpkin. It's a fun family tradition we all look forward to. With everyone's crazy schedule it's sometimes hard to accomplish, but we always do it!

I love Amberly's face in this picture as she was reaching in to pull some gooey seeds and guts out of the pumpkin. Trent and Darin hard at work on their pumpkin.

Amberly and Elizabeth working together on our masterpiece!

Love the face expression Trent!

Elizabeth getting her hands all gooey!

The Boy's Finished pumpkin!

Great job!

Introducing the girls finished pumpkin!

We call him Edward the vampire M & M pumpkin!

(Edward from the Twilight book series!)