Halloween 2012

Our family's tradition for Halloween for the past 4 years has been to join the Caldwells along with other church friends for an evening of food, fun, and candy! 

Nicole cooks mac & cheese, hotdogs, peas, and usually cookies or something.  The Foss family & Gillams usually attend as well as some of the Caldwell family.  We take pictures of all the kids dressed up and its very cute!

This year we decided to be the Incredibles for Halloween.  Since W is still little, it was good timing for us to try this.   Next year we'll have to many kids:)  We purchased red shirts and foam for masks.  The kids all got red sweatpants and undies that we intended to dye black. 

After working several nights, they were finally done.  The kids' undies didn't really turn black like we thought.  They are grey, but we still put the outfit together and it turned out really cute!

Baby Jack Jack

The Incredibles at WFRMS

Getting ready for trick-or-treating

After trick-or-treating

Some of the kids about to trick-or-treat

 

 I'm not sure what we will do next year.  It's a lot of fun going to the Caldwell's house, but R did ask if we could trick-or-treat in our neighborhood sometime.  I guess we have a year to decide.  Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Carvings

B is really creative.  He's got that artsy side to him like drawing and painting.  We got 4 pumpkins when we went to the pumpkin patch with AJE and after lots of discussion, we finally decided on what he would carve in the pumpkins.

The first pumpkin was the adult pumpkin and we compromised on a Saints design.  I love it!

Who Dat!



The second one was A's pick and at first he wanted Iron Man.  B looked up designs, but couldn't find one that he liked.  A's second choice was Spiderman so that's what B did for him.  I think it looks really cool!

Rin's pumpkin was interesting.  She wanted Aladin's lamp and we just thought that was too weird.  B found a good picture of Snow White so R accepted his suggestion.  This one is my personal favorite of the 4.

Snow White and an apple

Our 4th pumpkin turned into our family announcement pumpkin.  B used some trickery :)

BK (Bryce & Katie)

RAW? (Rin Abe Wes ?)

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Yes, that's right.  Due May 2013 with our fourth little Hantla.  We're very excited of course.  We've known since the end of September but have kept in on the DL for a while.  I had a few people ask me since they knew this was our season of trying to have a baby due at the end of school.  We will find out the sex in about another 5 weeks.  I'm currently 13 weeks along and feeling good.  I had some sick evenings and lots of tired days over the past 7 weeks, but I'm finally coming out of that stage.  When I lay flat, my belly pouches out in my lower abdomen now and it's firming up.  Yep, the Hantla Clan is expanding!

October Date Night

Our small group has been rotating date nights once a month.  We hosted the September babysitting and hoped that each couple would take a month after that.  The O'Janpa's voluteered to babysit for October.  They had all 10 kids present for that date night:)

B and I went to Pei Wei and then walked around triangle town center.  We looked for A a birthday present since it was the Friday before his birthday.  We found him Spiderman socks which is what he asked for!  We were gone about 3 hours total and picked our kids up just a little after 8.  They had a great time and Vic said it wasn't really that bad.  10 kinds for four hours is a lot to handle. 

9 kids eating dinner (Rowan is too small)

9 kids eating cookies (wonder why A is shirtless?)