My mystical creatures!

Kiana really wanted to be Tinkerbell for Halloween. That doesn't work too well in Utah and with it snowing the week prior, we determined we made a good decision to be a warm dragon. And not just any dragon, but the dragon that falls in love with Donkey in Shrek. It had wings, and so Kiana abliged. My parents had gotten the costume last year for cheaper after the holiday and so it was really cheap to just borrow. We also found the cutest Unicorn, also warm, costume for Maile. She looked so cute. The mystical creatures were all a stir at our house!

Here is our Halloween 2009:

We started the festivities at the Pumpkin walk at the Benson Grist Mill. They usually have more for the kids, but this year it seemed to be mostly vendors. It was still fun to get in the Halloween and pumpkin mood.

This cow, of course, was my favorite pumpkin! I had to make sure the dragon didn't set it on fire!
The next adventure Steve handled by himself while I was at Super Saturday. They went to Kiana's last soccer game and then to the Halloween carnival.Maile was tuckered out before it began and slept amongst all that noise!!
Kiana playing games. Steve said she got scared in the beginning and it was hard to get her to do much. She has beem so excited about Halloween asking everyone she comes in contact with, "what you be a Halloween?" (secretly I think this is so cute, so I haven't corrected her, in fact I would say it to!!), but she sure scares easily.

Kiana also had a wonderful Halloween party at preschool. One of the other moms took these awsome pictures of the kids. They are missing one of her classmates, Josh, because his mom had a baby! At school they danced and played games like ghost, ghost, boo (duck, duck, goose) and ate doughnuts off a string and had lots of candy. She has such a fun preschool with many great teachers.
We didn't get many pictures Halloween night, but we had lots of fun. We went to a neighbors house for soup and fun. Kiana had to get make-up on like the other girls, so here she is getting her BIG purple dragon eyes on...
We went trick or treating around the neighborhood. I thought Maile would go to a few houses, get bored, and ride in the stroller. Actually, it was exactly opposite. She loved it. I don't know if she figured out people were giving her candy until the end when she began eating it, but she loved that people were putting things in her pumpkin. Her and Kiana have had these pumpkins for weeks and they would put things around the house in them and carry them around. They had so much fun. A pretty cheap toy for so much entertainment. I think she was excited that other people were putting things into it too. I would set her on the porch and she'd run to the door with Kiana and say, "tick or teet", and wait and then say, "thantoo!" It was the cutest. When Kiana was tired and throwing temper tantrums, Maile was still going. It was pretty fun. It is fun to see them understand Halloween more and we were happy that we could spend some time with Daddy too and our friends.

And last, but not least, some stylish pictures of the girls today while we were at the hosptial waiting with my sister....