Happy Halloween!

When I was trying to figure out what costume to dress Lydia in for Halloween, I asked Brent. He immediately said "a monkey"! I knew that it was perfect, because I have always called her my little monkey - even when she was in my belly! I found this cute costume online at Old Navy and LOVED the banana in the pocket! When it arrived, I tried it on Lydia and she looked so funny toddling around - just like a monkey! It was hanging in her closet for weeks, and several times when I went in to get Lydia from her nap, she would point to her monkey costume and laugh. I would say "Is that your monkey costume?" and she would nod and say "yah"! So funny! She kept wanting to get it down and play with it. And she already could tell us what a monkey said, which I should have gotten on video- my new goal!

Anyway, I was afraid she would hate wearing the thing, but she totally loved it and played the part well! Of coarse, cuz she is totally a monkey! She totally loved trick-or-treating, and just wanted to hold each thing she got, instead of putting it in her bucket. Then she tried eating the candy through the wrapper. Finally she was just content to carry the bucket all by herself. When I tried to help her, she would wave my hand away - little miss independent!

So, I wanted to dress up as something that went along with her costume, and when I saw this sign I found at Macey's, I knew what I could be! It says "I have flying monkeys - don't make me use them!" Perfect, huh?

Harris Hillbillie Halloween Hoe-down!

All red-necks, hillbillies and country folk of the family were invited to our annual Harris Halloween Party! Mom, Kristen, Amber and I had a blast planning this year's party. And everyone dressed up for the occasion - above and beyond what we expected! My favorite was Mom and Dad's costumes, and Ryan and Karlie & their kids! We had our party out in the barn behind Amber & Jeff's house, which was perfect!Ryan is a hillbilly at heart!

Karlie made a great hillbilly, too!

Little homeless Hallie - and it was so cold, too!
Our little Lydia!

I just loved Brent's mullet!

Brayden and Porter

Hannah in her camo!

Mom and Dad - the ultimate hillbillies!

You go, mom!

Jordan, Addi, Porter & Angie
The redneck crew...
and the hillbilly girls, too!

I don't know what it is about coming up with gross names for our Halloween dinners, but I think it is one of my favorite things to do! I got lot's of help online from roadkill cafe menus!

Ryan's personal stuffed armadillo from his mission in Texas!
Mom made these awesome fat rats on a stick! I had to get the before and after pictures:

Yummm!Every year we have our dinner games that we play while we eat. One is our name tag game - we are all assigned names and can't call each other by our regular names. If you do, you have to give up one of your game pieces (this year was candy corn). The person with the most at the end of dinner wins!
Jeff and Amber (aka Billy Ray and Daisy Mae) Stuffin' our redneck faces!Lindy and Lydia

Ryan played it up all night long!

Celebrating Jordan's birthday.
Our pie eating contest - Ryan plays dirty!

The best for last: our homemade hillbilly band! My mom wanted to play funny music and let the kids play along, but it ended up mostly us just laughing at Ryan and his antics! And it was so loud it hurt our ears! Play at your own risk!

Robinson's Halloween Party!

We were so excited to be able to go up to Idaho for the Robinson's Halloween Bash! It was so fun to decorate and make all of the fun foods with Dana - a Halloween lover such as myself! I am glad someone else has as much fun doing this stuff as I do! Dana invited about 30 couples from her ward & neighborhood & it was fun to meet lots of new people! Thanks again, Dana!

Halloween Reminiscing... it's Dynamite!

I was reminiscing about Halloween Parties past and laughed when I looked back at this picture from our 2005 Dynamite Halloween Party! My little brother looked just like Napoleon, and my youngest brother did a great job as Kip! Not only did they look like them, but they were acting like them the whole night long!

Napoleon Dynamite himself!

Kip and LaFawnduh
Grandma "Quesa-dil-la" and Uncle Rico
Deb and Pedro

Don and Summer

Your wildest dreams will come true if you vote for Pedro.
Yes, it was a very eventful night!

And these are my fav - Martha Stewart's Creepcakes! They were so fun to make!