We had a wonderful Halloween this year. I think that the nice weather really helped and that our children can now go a bit longer trick or treating.
We started our Halloween off by decorating a spooky house, then later in the week we made some finger puppets with a Halloween theme of course.
(Sorry for the sideways picture but here is the finished product)
Our tradition is to always carve our pumpkins for FHE before Halloween. Which is what we did. I bought our pumpkins earlier in the week and made Spencer proud when I found the biggest and best ones I could. In our family we each get to carve a pumpkin....it just cuts down on the arguements and we love to have a nice selection to show off come Halloween night. I am a master carver and helped Evan carve his pumpkin in no time. We left Megan to go-it-alone and she had a lot to do by herself so she actually just got the top cut off and decided on a design that night. I helped her by scooping out the insides and tracing her pattern on the pumpkin. The next day she carved most of the pumpkin by herself. Spencer helped Aaron...it took awhile but the results were worth the wait. I actually didn't carve our (adult) pumpkin until Sunday of the following week. Just too busy. But it only took about 1/2 an hour start to finish. I love the smell of a lit pumpkin. Megan suggested that I add cinnamon to the pumpkin and it will smell like a pumpkin pie with the candle going....yummy...next year we'll give that one a try.
Our carving results...
A mummy, two different faces, and a cat.
Here are our costumes....
Here is my Megan dressed as her ipod nano standing beside Hermonie from Harry Potter (her school friend). I even sprayed her hair purple, what you can't see is the play/menu button behind her bag and on the back the apple symbol with the word iPod. She loved it.
Here is Evan as a firefighter minus the hat (it kinda gets annoying he says) we used this costume last year too. Next year I'm pretty sure that he'll be harder to please. When I saw costumes come on sale at costco I asked him if he wanted to be one of those ones this year. But in the middle of August who is thinking about halloween. Not him. Aaron of all things....we miss placed his costume when it came time to trick or treat. I couldn't find his tigger outfit anywhere?...how do you lose a halloween costume? So I was ready to go out while the sun was still up and so were the boys, so thank goodness we had this pumpkin hat and an orange coat and a bag with a pumpkin face on it. So that worked out ok. In the end he didn't care what he was he just wanted to go trick or treating.
Our ward held a trunk or treat at the church. There were lots of fun games and activities then the trunk or treating. This year we handed out bags of chips. The kids got a nice little haul...enough to get started with anyways.
Megan went out trick or treating with a school friend and had a good time. She got quite the haul and five bucks to boot!
I went out with Evan and Aaron around 5:45pm just around our complex. It takes so long for Aaron to walk to each house....he was so excited to use his flashing lights bag and he loves to see what kind of candy was given. With just the three of us going around to houses we had to say "trick-or-treat" a few times and loudly so people could hear us. We went back to our house with the boys bags full. Then Spencer took them out again to some houses that are close by. By this time Evan was being pushed in our stroller and Aaron was the trooper and walked the whole way. He is definately our big boy.
This is Evan's candy. Imagine Aaron's added to this. Yikes! We let our kids enjoy some of their candy that night, then we let them select about 10 pieces that they can eat and the rest goes into our movie night bucket. As our children love not only popcorn but a little candy as well when they watch a movie.
