Family Halloween Costumes

Some of my favorite family Halloween costumes from this year. 

While out trick or treating we found a family of Lego's. 

Beetlejuice (seriously AWESOME costumes). 

There was another Beetlejuice but he was hiding behind his mama. You can see his little striped leg at the bottom of her dress. 

Flintstones 

My preggo sister and niece Kyla 

and my very favorite, US! lol I'm not partial at all 

Halloween cakes

I made two cakes for this Halloween. This first one was for my brothers birthday. I hope that someday I can plan to have a baby in October because I was always so jealous of my brothers birthday parties in October. There is SO much you can do to make them fun! 

Spiderweb cake

I don't like the spider on top. I would forgo next time or make it another color. 

Sewer Rat Cake

The second cake was for my work "creepy dessert contest". My hubby and I teamed up on this one and decided to make a sewer rat on top of a big block of cheese. He made the rat out of sculpted rice crispy and modeling chocolate. The whiskers are fishing line. 

The man hard at work. 

The cake was two 9" yellow round cakes with almond cream frosting and marshmallow fondant. My part and nice and simple. 

I think above all this cake was extremely unique and we won first place :) 

Halloween costume photo shoot

How many attempts does it take to get a decent picture? When you're taking a picture with a baby it takes many many shots and lots of patients! Some of baby's faces in these pictures are priceless but this first one is my favorite (hence it's the only one I edited).

The master chef preparing his evening special - Delicious lobster! 

My little lobster ♥

All Hallows Eve

"Witches flying through the sky, on their broomsticks way up high, black cats howl as they go by for this is HALLOWEEN!" One of the songs we sing throughout the month of October. Love it. 

We of course went to Apple Hill to get our pumpkin. 

Tyler carved a vampire and Deke carved the Joker. Curses for not taking a picture of the finished project! 

Tyler made a spooky haunted house

Tyler and cousin Kyla at Trunk or Treat. 

Our traditional Halloween dinner - Mummy dogs. Yup, realllll nutritious. 

Such a cute Captain America! 

Ok, so here is the one picture I got of Tyler's vampire pumpkin *cough* yeah a week later. If you look closely you might even see the mold. 

Halloween pumpkin patch cake

Ok, so I didn't actually make this cake, my sister Heather did. But I thought it was SO cute I thought I would put it out there in case someone was looking for an awesome October cake idea. She used a 9x9 brownie pan for the base and the Wilton ball pan for the pumpkin. Same pan I used for THIS cake. 

I put a straw in the middle to act as a dowel (yes, I helped a little), the straw stuck out about 2 inches. She then doused it with frosting to make the stem. Pretty cute eh? 

Last minute Halloween costume

Today we had a costume contest at work. This was a problem as I didn't plan to dress up this year due to the little hard-to-hide bump I've been sporting. But I didn't want to be a scrooge so I racked my brain and decided to throw something together with what I had. 

Cut out a circle with leftover yellow fabric, throw on some horns and ta-da - you have a deviled egg. Although I didn't win the contest everyone at work loved my costume. Especially since I incorporated my bump. Could you tell what I was? 

I had to laugh...

Ok, so I know I already posted today but I had to laugh to see how my parents were handling their trick-or-treaters this year. My parents only receive 2-10 trick-or-treaters a year, this year only 3. Unfortunately my parents don't live in a lively, high traffic, trick-or-treating neighborhood. There aren't sidewalks, no street lamps, lots of hills, steep driveways, and STAIRS, LOTS of stairs! Usually my mom likes to make it worth wild for the few kids that they get. When we moved here it started out as big hand fulls of candy, then she went on to buy full size candy bars, this year she decided to give out entire packages of candy to EACH child! Normally a child gets one maybe two pieces per house but not when they come to the Hyde household, you really get hooked up there! Keep that in mind my local friends ;-D

These are the packages she handed out. The kids got to pick their favorite and were shocked when she put the whole package in their sacks.

My dad opened the balcony and put spooky Halloween music blaring out the door. That with the Giants game in the background I'm shocked he even heard the door bell!

Halloween 2010

Phew. Today is Halloween and we are finally winding down from all the spooktacular festivities. My sister Cynthia flew in from Wyoming with her kids so they could spend the weekend with their cousins, ever since Friday afternoon we have been non stop with activities! Tyler had a class party Friday afternoon, boys and girls club party after school, school fall festival Friday evening, then trunk-or-treat, and then a haunted house! Ok that was day 1. Saturday we made puff pancakes, played with the kids, then went to Tyler's soccer game (in the rain). After that we ran a few small errands and went home to continue the fun. We decorated sugar cookies, made suckers, watched Hocus Pocus, and then went to ANOTHER trunk-or-treat. We then came home to have homemade pizza and celebrate my brother David's 25th birthday. The kids bobbed for apples, played Halloween bingo, Halloween matching game, and ate tons of candy. Bedtime came WAY too late so needless to say we were exhausted this morning. Good thing it was Stake Conference so we got to sleep in a little! Cynthia and the kids flew back this morning, it was a short trip but we were glad they could come! We had a good time!

Hagrid, Harry Potter, and Darth Vader at the schools fall festival

Dekeypoo and Jenna-bow-benna

Princess Leia and Harry Potter

Hagrid, Harry Potter, and Luna Lovegood

The cousins! Next Halloween we will have one more added to this bunch!

Queen Amidala, Darth Vader, and Princess Leia (Cynthia and her kids)

The whole gang!

Deke doing the "Napoleon Dynamite" dance in his moon boots.

Decorating sugar cookies!

One of the trunk or treats - and grandma helping Tyler cheat.

Bobbing for apples, who wants to go first?!

Jenna just drank the water lol

The girls.