Halloween 2025

 We had a really fun Halloween this year!

The kids love all the fun Halloween snacks and food we make, like these apple teeth. Ivy even made hers with small front teeth like she has right now!

We had Grandma and Grandpa Schuetzler and Cami and Dallen over for a Halloween-y dinner one Sunday after the primary program, and they did a great job helping with the graveyard pudding:

We had our "man's ribs" that night too:

Grandpa Schuetzler had fun with the skeleton arms after dinner:

Zane and Ivy loved trying on their costumes!

We took the older three kids to a Halloween carnival at the Traverse Mountain outlets, and they got a ton of free stuff (Ivy was at Disneyland):

We got our pumpkins from a local patch in Orem, and they had some fun set-ups:

Pumpkin carving went great this year, with each kid almost entirely independent with making their own! Hyrum made a pumpkin from the Cosmere, the symbol for steel and iron:

Cora made the ubiquitous "6-7":

Ivy made Bingo from Bluey:

Zane made a soccer player:

Ryan made the bird from K-Pop Demon Hunters:

Tricia made Peter Pan, as shown in the second picture here:

Our ward did a Halloween party with a chili cook-off and a trunk or treat. We made our van Peter-Pan themed to go along with some of our costumes:

It won 3rd place!

Cutie girls at the trunk or treat:

I took the two little kids to the Pleasant Grove free trick-or-treating since we missed our city's while we were in Arizona, and they had a lot fun!

I got to see Zane and Ivy in their school's costume parade:

And I helped at Ivy's school Halloween party!

After school we had our fun spooky charcuterie dinner:

And everyone got into their costumes! Zane was the Grim Reaper:

Ivy was Tinker Bell (her skirt lit up with changing colors):

Hyrum was one of Captain Hook's pirates:

Cora was a lifeguard (she matched her friends):

Ryan was Captain Hook and I was Peter Pan:

The whole family:

Ryan and Hyrum gave out candy from their pirate ship:

I took Ivy around trick-or-treating and Zane and Cora went trick-or-treating with friends. One of the streets in our neighborhood did an amazing Harry Potter theme, and it was so magical!

We ended the night with some candy sorting and watching a Halloween movie! It was a really fun spooky season with the kids!