Our Life in Alaska and Beyond

A few extras from the busy month of beautiful October! 🎃🍁 

Beautiful sunset from my parents' front yard. 🌅 The spider pumpkin decoration is so cute too! 10/12/23

Enjoy these pics from actual Halloween! Such a fun day! 🎃🕷️👻

Ready for school! So fun that they could wear their costumes! I loved watching them in the school costume parade as well. 😊

My mom always hosts the best Halloween party every year! Everyone has the best costumes, and my mom plans the best activites and food. A lot of my cousins still come to this too, and it's so fun to catch up. Enjoy these cute pics!

Vampire, Dorothy, and Devil

My parents took the girls to Little Haunts at This is the Place Heritage Park, and it was so fun! I got to go with, and Grandma Kay also came with too! They had special activities for Halloween and the girls wore their costumes. So much fun! 🐴🎃

Grandma Kay wanted to take the girls and their cousins (Taylor and Eloise) to the fall festival at Cross E Ranch. I wasn't working this day so I got to go too! It was actually quite hot this day, but we still had so much fun! Enjoy these pics! 🎃

Our neighbor down the street in Farmington always displays his amazing carved pumpkins every year, and it's always so cool to check out. The girls and I went with Grandma and Grandpa B. one evening. So fun! 🎃

We got season passes to Cherry Hill (thanks Grandma and Grandpa B. for the best x-mas present ever!), and I love how the passes included Scary Hill! We went several times, sometimes I just took the girls, and Grandma and Grandpa B. came with us a few times too! So much fun! 🍒⛳️🧗🏻‍♀️🎃💀🕷️

Spooky mini golf. 10/6/23

Every year my mom hosts a big Halloween party for all the family! My cousins would come every year growing up, and now they still come with their kids, along with all of us kids, and our kids; it's gotten pretty big, and it's always a good time! This year my mom hosted right on Halloween, so it made for a busy night, but so fun! We took pictures, played a few games, and ate at my parents', and then we took the girls trick-or-treating (Ruby actually went with her Hocus Pocus friends in a different neighborhood), and then we went back to my parents' for more games. So much fun! Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇🕷

Robyn 🦚 Noelle 👮 Ruby 👻 (Mary from Hocus Pocus)

There is a home near us in Farmington that puts up an amazing display of Harry Potter creatures and characters every Halloween. My mom had told us about it, and we couldn't wait to check it out. All the figures are carved and handmade by a teen. She does an amazing job, and we loved walking through. They also served butter beer and gave a special chocolate snitch to anyone dressed in a Harry Potter costume. Everything was so fun and so cool!

Scott, Ruby, and Noelle were all Hogwarts students, I was Professor Trelawney, and Robyn was Crookshanks. So fun re-using some of the same costumes from our fun Harry Potter Halloween here.

We had so many fun things and different activities going on the week before Halloween, I wanted to include them here. So much fun! Happy Halloween! 🎃

Walking over to the ward Halloween carnival. The sunset was 😍. Robyn was a witch, Noelle was a police officer, and Ruby was Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. (Robyn and Ruby switched it up later in the week, haha.)

My parents had passes to This is The Place Heritage Park, and while Scott and I were working they took the girls several times. (I also got to go with a few times, too.) In the fall they have a special event called Little Haunts where they do Halloween themed activities. Grandma and Grandpa B. took the girls this day, and they had so much fun! Enjoy these cute pics!

We loved having season passes to Cherry Hill over the summer, and they included entrance to their fall event: Scary Hill! They pretty much offered all the same things (minus the water park), but with a fun Halloween theme. They also had a tractor ride through the campground that was all decked out in skeletons acting out different scenes from movies and such. We went several times all throughout the month and definitely got full use of our passes. (Thanks so much Grandma and Grandpa B.!)

Love this huge spider on the mini golf course! 🕷

I have several photos from my cell phone from October that are too cute not to share. We had such a fun Halloween season with beautiful weather, fun parties, and spooky treats, haha. Enjoy these fun pics! 🎃👻

These cool pumpkins are on display in the neighborhood, just down the street from us! It was so fun to see them! This was the Harry Potter section.

My mom has always thrown a big family Halloween party for as long as I can remember. Most of my extended family (on my mom's side) comes and it's always a great time! (We even planned a few trips back to Utah over Halloween when we were still living in AK.) Almost everyone dresses up in amazing costumes, and it's so fun! This year it was kind of a carnival theme, and because of covid we had the party outside, but the weather was beautiful and we had a great time! We had yummy food, played lots of games, and then with Halloween being on Sunday this year, everyone went trick or treating after. The girls loved going out with their cousins, and they got tons of candy, haha. Enjoy the fun pics!

Ruby was Jasmine (from the live action Aladdin), Robyn was Rajah (Jasmine's tiger, also from Aladdin), and Noelle was Vampirina (a cute animated show on Disney)

The following day the Woods met us at a pumpkin patch in West Farmington, Pack Farms, and then they came over to our house for dinner. The pumpkin patch was a little chilly and really windy, but we still had fun and even though I don't have any pictures of them here, haha, the Woods were with us and it was so good to see them! We're so grateful for the time we spent in AK and the many wonderful people we met there! Seriously can't wait to go back and visit! 

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We woke up to our first snow of the season yesterday morning! It was just a light dusting, but still kind of exciting! The girls wanted to go right out and play in it, and I was excited to take pictures in it, haha! (The white snow makes such pretty pics!) We decided to get the girls in their Halloween costumes and take their pictures. (I'll be working on Halloween and probably won't get home until dark so not sure if we'll get too many pics that day, haha.) It was a little chilly, so after taking a few pics they got all their snow gear on and played in it for a bit. It was fun! 

For now Robyn is Anna and Noelle is Elsa from Frozen II. And Ruby is Hermione from Harry Potter. We have gone back and forth on several costume ideas, but for now this works, haha. (Not sure if Scott and I will dress up this year.) Happy (almost) Halloween! 🎃👻

*Edited to add: Now that Halloween is over I've added a few cell pics from actual Halloween at the bottom of this post. The girls kept these same costumes, except it was FREEZING! We had to bundle them up good! Scott took the girls to a trunk or treat at their school during the day (I was working, but they said it was super fun! They played math games out of teachers' trunks and got small toys instead of candy) and then we all went to a trunk or treat at our church that evening. So much fun! 

The fresh snow was perfect for Elsa! ❄

We've had such pretty colors this fall, and we've tried our best to get out and enjoy it as much as we can! A few Sundays ago we decided to hike Scout Ridge trail. It was so pretty and we decided fall is our favorite time of year to hike it because of all the beautiful colors (and no mosquitoes!)