Halloween Fun and Birthday Festivities

This year we started out our Halloween fun with a ward trunk or treat. Olivia dressed up as a giraffe for that activity and thoroughly enjoyed going from car to car and getting candy.
She ate one sucker, and some greedy adult ate most of the rest of her candy. . . hee hee. Bad.

This is a picture of Liv and her good friend Dillan, the cutest scarecrow I've ever seen, at the ward trunk or treat.

Olivia came home pretty happy as you can see. Note to self: if your kid is not cooperating for pictures just load them up with some candy and that should get a smile on their face!

After taking a few pictures of this little giraffe Liv insisted that I take a picture of her baby doll as well. . . so I did.

On the actual Halloween day we took Liv trick or treating. I wasn't planning on taking her at first, because I thought she was too little, but after some convincing from my friends we took her out. And I'm so glad we did. It was so adorable to watch her waddle up to door after door, knock super lightly and say "Tweet!", or "Twickeet". Then she would thank them softly and walk away. The doors that had little dogs at them were the biggest hit with her.
After trick or treating. We came back to our house and did a spur-of-the-moment game night with our friends (See deviled egg and bacon below).

This is my cute friend Brittany holding Tiger on Halloween night

My friend Linea was kind enough to lend us the giraffe and tiger outfits, and after trick or treating Liv wanted to put the tiger outfit on. She was so happy in it, and when it was time for bed she refused to take it off. She felt pretty cool.

After Liv was down for the night, we made some caramel apples. I really had no idea that we were so skilled at making them, but when they were done they totally looked like famous people had made them! :)And they tasted even better than they looked!

Ok on to the. . .
Birthday Festivities!

So, on Sunday I turned the big 2 5! I think its going to be a good year. I like the sound of 25.
This year was one of my best birthdays yet. I felt very loved by those around me. Especially my sweet husband, who made me the best pot-roast dinner (sorry Rich) that I've ever had in my life.
On Saturday Night, we left Liv with our friends and went out to Cheesecake factory, yum, and to Norstrum Rack, where I found these little gems:


They are BRIGHT RED! It was love at first sight. And when I put them on, it pretty much feels like a down comforter is wrapped around my foot.

Another part of my birthday was a new hair cut. So,
this is for those of you who have asked for a picture of my new do. For the first time since I was four years old I have bangs! You actually can't see them too well in this picture, but I mostly just either bobby pin them or push them to the side anyway. Its a fun change. I find I need drastic changes when I am pregnant. Why is that?On Sunday after the pot roast dinner, my friend Brittany won a lot of smiles out of me by presenting me with this thoughtful gift:


It is a book of a bunch of pictures from my blog. Little did she know that this was on my wish list. I'm so glad that I do this blog thing and not scrap booking, because the books that you can print are really cute!
After the pot roast dinner there was cake: mmm confetti cake. Yum. Jaron said to me "Dont' you want a nice home made chocolate cake for your birthday?" but nope, what I really was craving was betty crocker's confetti cake. It's the best.

So until next year. . .
You look like a monkey. . . and you smell like one too!