Halloween 2011

 The Five Musketeers - ready to hit the streets for candy

 Batman and...Witch...again.

 A Supergirl flanked by Marios

 Clara sliding down the stairs

 Ben brought over a big movie screen to set up in the yard to show movies to the trick-or-treaters.  It was so fun!  We watched Charlie Brown and The Nightmare Before Christmas.  Definitely a tradition we want to keep as long as the weather is decent on Halloween night.

 Ben with the masterpiece

 Where do we go first?!

We had a great Halloween with lots of kids raiding our candy bowl.  The kids only went around the block before they saw the movie screen and decided to hang out instead of trick or treat.  This made for far less candy (yay!) this year.  I love our neighborhood all year round, but it is especially fun to know most of the kids who knock on your door.

Pre-Halloween-Eve

Halloween is now spread out over 37 days and 45 events.  Friday we went trick-or-treating at Dave's work.  Saturday we had a trunk-or-treat.  Sunday we had a dinner at my aunt and uncle's house with finger foods.  The kids wore their costumes to school today for a Halloween Parade, and then there is the big event tonight.  These are pictures of the events so far.  We will see if I manage to get pictures taken tonight!

 Tractor Tippin'

 The Five Crazies

 Joshie

Children of the Corn

 Hanging out at the Pumpkin Patch for FHE

 Remind me to wear makeup next year

Clara the Cowgirl

Josh

 

 Carving Pumpkins

 Getting the low-down on pulling the guts out

 Instructions from Spencer

 Clara waits to begin

 Tyler busts out his cheesy smile

 Deep in the heart of the pumpkins

 The Headless Horseman!

 Traditional Pumpkin

 Trick or Treating at the LDS Church

 Josh the Cowardly Lion

 Kate as Dorothy

 Clara as Dorothy

 The Three Musketeers

 He has hair!

 Clara switches to her witch costume

 Halloween Parade at Providence Hall - Clara

 Hailee in the parade

 Josh waves hello

 Kate in the parade

Spencer as Mario!

At Dave's work, they had a spook alley and a row of cubes converted into a Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Oz alley.  So cute!  There were hundreds of kids and it was chaos.  We stuck to one floor mostly for trick-or-treating, but it was fun to finally see Dave's work.  We took Kate along with us because she wanted to go, but the Romingers headed out to Arizona for the weekend so they missed out on the fun. 

October 31, 2010: Halloween

Because we live in Utah, Trick-or-Treating is done on Saturday when Halloween falls on a Sunday.  I personally love this because then we have lots of candy for Sunday.  Just kidding.  I love it because then I don't have to struggle with whether or not I will let my kids go out to get candy.  So last night the neighborhood was out in full force, running from house to house.  I stayed home to pass out candy because I had taken the kids out several years in a row and it was Dave's turn.  Plus it was cold and rainy.  Clara lasted 17 minutes.  Josh got back about an hour and a half later.  

This picture was taken about a half hour after Josh got home.  I think probably 8-10 pieces of candy had been consumed.  We have a policy that they can eat whatever they want that night, and then the candy goes away.  Since the past 48 hours included a school party, trick-or-treating at Dave's work, a ward trunk-or-treat AND actual trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, our kids are way over-sugared and we are going to be working on detoxing them for the next few weeks.

My Pumpkins

October 29th - Ventures

Today is going to be an adventure. It starts off with getting the carpet cleaned in my living room this morning. Then Clara is going to my mom's for the day. Then I head downtown for a very important lunch meeting. Then I pick up the kids and head to a pumpkin patch to go buy two hay bales and a couple of cornstalks. Then I come home and start cleaning and finishing up painting my entryway. Then I take the kids over to the neighbor's house for a haunted house in her basement. Then I do some more painting.

Tomorrow morning I wake up, get the kids ready to go, attend two Halloween parties at two different schools, take the kids to Dave's office to trick or treat, head home to set up a photo booth for the school carnival, attend the school carnival and run one of the games, come home and clean, and collapse.

Saturday morning we signed up to clean the Church and then I have to spend the day getting stuff ready for the evening as we are having some friends over for chili before going out trick or treating.

If I make it to Sunday it will be a miracle and I might need to sleep the entire day.

October 16th

"Dead Last Witch"