Wish upon a Starr

Our JACKOLANTERNS!!! Well, the ones that go finished. Allison's and Matthew's. Kevin and I spent too much time on the internet looking for ideas. Then the ideas we found and really wanted, and really thought we could do, we couldn't do. So, two jackolanterns for the Starr family this year. It's okay, because with the dog, they didn't last long. Lady likes to roll them like soccer balls, sometimes you can't tell who is chasing who. It's pretty funny to watch!



With the lights off, obviously. I think they turned out pretty awesome!!



We did our Halloween playing on Saturday. Our ward did a trunk or treat, which was a blast. Real creative people in our ward. The Clarks had a cute idea. They had a tent set up, someone at the door to control the flow of people. When we got inside (I had to drag Madalynn in, she knew something was going on) Sis. Clark was dressed up as a witch. She stood next to a table that was set with plates and such. The center of the table had a big silver serving bowl with lid. She thanked the kids for coming, invited them to climb the ladder so they could reach in the serving bowl for the candy. As she said that, she lifted the lid. There was the candy just like she said, but Bro. Clarks head was there too!!!!! My not-so-brave kiddos just sat there and stared. We tried to get them to take a candy, but they wouldn't move. I grabbed some for them, and moved on. Clark family, you rock!!!!
Then the Collett Family, who's house was right behind where we had the trunk or treat, had a spook alley to go through. They have some very fun witch collectables/decorations, it was fun to just look at all the decorations. The kids actually enjoyed that one. It wasn't "too" scary says miss Allison.
After the trunk or treat, we headed to Grt. Grandma Mansfield's house. We plan on staying a little bit to visit with her. She is so sweet, and so proud of her flowers. That is all she could talk about. Sweet sweet grandma!!
Then we headed into town to Grandma and Grandpa Mansfield's house for pictures and treats! And we all usually time it just right, we usually end up there at the same time. So it's fun to talk about each others festivities and such.

Here are our lovely costumes. Matthew first, as "Bumble Bee" the Transformer. While we were trunk or treating, he saw another kid dressed up as "Optimus Prime". He thought that was so cool. Couldn't take his eyes off of him. (He loves the transformers! Whenever we are in the car and we happen to pass a semi, if it looks like Optimus, then he will comment that it was him. If it is a semi that doesn't look like Optimus, then he will comment that it wasn't him. He is ALWAYS looking for Optimus! There is a car that resembles Bumble Bee that we see from time to time, and yes he geeks out when he see it and says that is Bumble Bee because he has "racing stripes". How does he know what racing stripes are anyway? Cute little boy of mine! I could go on and on about our little driving conversations and the transformers. Another day maybe...)

Bumble Bee



Here is Allison as a Vampire Princess. We were excited that it was something different then a Disney Princess, or a fairy. This is still a "princess" but a little more Halloween-ish. We even got to paint her face. And she had cool glow in the dark vampire teeth, but we couldn't find them.

Vampire Princess



Madalynn was a little purple witch. She of course hated the hat. We were only able to keep her distracted enough to take pictures and that was it. She did really good at the trunk or treat. Every time someone would put a candy into her bag, she would hold it completely open with both hands, and just look into the bag. And then she would look some more. She LOVED the idea of walking around to strange people giving her candy.

Purple Witch



The whole gang (and yes I dressed up. I knew there would be other adults dressed up at the trunk or treat, so could go dressed up with out feeling to silly. And I was right. A good chunk of them had dressed up. Good times!!!).



Happy Halloween!!!

Okay, scratch the post that is after this one, but was really done before this one. We found a way to get the photos to load, YEA!!!!!! I've got some major catching up to do, starting with this one. Again, way behind. (p.s. don't scratch the whole post, just me complaining about the computer.)


Miss Allison and her first day of school!!!! All dressed up and ready to go, and she couldn't be more excited!



Here is Matthew, who isn't to excited that he has to stay home another year.



Miss Madalynn who is just happy to be getting her picture taken.



The bus stop, just us.



The bus, she is the second one to get picked up, so it's pretty empty when she gets on. She has the sweetest bus driver though!

Kevin has taken the lap top downstairs, and this computer is not liking my SD card. So I don't have any photos for this one, but I still wanted to write about this. It actually happened last Christmas, and I completely forgot about it till today. Matthew was watching "The Polar Express", his favorite movie because of the train, and it just made me think of something that he said last year. We had watched the movie at least a dozen times. One night I was tucking him into bed and he just asked in his most sincere sweet little voice if he could ride on The Polar Express. I just told that I didn't know and he would just have to fall asleep and hope that it comes. He grabbed his blanket, pulled it under his chin, closed his eyes with a big smile on his face, and tried to go to sleep as fast as he could.

It was so sweet, the little smile on his face. He was probably more excited for that then the idea that Santa was coming that night. It broke my heart that I couldn't do anything for him, but it was still so sweet. He of course remembered about it when he woke up the next morning, so we had a talk over breakfast, didn't ruin it for him though, but we were able to cleverly come up with a story (I actually don't remember what we told him), that made him happy again. And he still loves the movie, it hasn't been Christmas for a while but that movie comes out at least once a month.