Halloween 2011

Here's a run-down of all our Halloween Festivities this year.

School Parade, 10/26

Here are the kids dressed up for the school costume parade, which I missed.  I was running the stroller up the hill as the last classes finished marching around.  sad.  But I poked my head into both the kids classes to say hi, and did get to take pictures of Sean's class who came out for class pictures.

At our school, all the kindergartners have a tradition of dressing as scarecrows.  It's really cute.

Church Halloween Party, 10/29

Our Pirate family, with our bottle-drinking-parrot on Arthur's shoulders.

Things have been so busy this year, we almost broke the "family theme" streak.  In the end, I was able to convince the kids to dress as pirates which was great for me since I already had all of their costumes, (except something for Sydney,) and used borrowed costumes for Arthur and I.  It was close this year, but I'm happy to say the theme-streak continues!

  

Here is Sydney's little parrot costume.  

She hated it.  But she was pretty adorable.  

trunk-or-treating.

10/31

Halloween afternoon, we finally carved our pumpkins.  I'm so glad we actually found some time to carve them this year!  Last year, they never got carved.  

In order to get the kids to agree to be pirates as a family, I told them they could dress up as anything they wanted on Halloween to go trick-or-treating.  (As long as they could get it out of our dress-up box.)  So we had a real hodge-podge.  Hayden was R2-D2, Sean was Darth Vader, Daphne was a princess bride, and Dallin was a mad scientist, and they all found their own costumes, while I was getting our dinner ready.

Sean choking me with the force.

Thank goodness Julianne and Eric brought over some cool stuff to eat or we would have just had mummy fingers and apples with caramel.  Sometimes my best-laid plans just don't turn out.  But Jewels' and Eric's brain, turned out awesome!  And they brought pizza mummy faces, and a delicious but gross-looking drink with gummy worms in it and veggies & dip.  

Eric practicing his brain surgery techniques.  Not sure if I would trust him with my brain . . .  :)

The cute mummy pizzas that Julianne made: 

Sydney chowin' down on a mummy finger.

The weather was PERFECT for trick-or-treating this year.  Our kids went with some friends in the neighborhood and the Schmutz's, who weren't here for this picture, (but just wait until you scroll down and see Brigham's costume.)  Unfortunately, all the walking around did NOT put Erin into labor.  We hope her little guy will make his world debut SOON!!!

Julianne and Lilly.  She was an adorable scarecrow.

trick-or treat!

Brigham Schmutz as "Mega-Mind!"  

Best costume I saw this Halloween, hands down.

Enjoying the spoils of the evening.  

I am suffering from candy overload.  It doesn't look appetizing to me in the least.

Dallin said, "Hey some houses played tricks on us and gave us fruit snacks instead of a treat!"

Here are Dallin and Daphne reenacting their dismay at finding fruit snacks amidst their candy collection.