Halloween Festivities

Ward Trunk-or-Treat

Oct 24th

The kids wanted to do Harry Potter again this year.  This is the first time I have recycled costumes from another year.  At first it felt like a cop-out, but then, when I wasn't stressing out about finishing costumes in time, it felt REALLY GOOD!  I only did one new costume (if you can call it a costume--)  I added some feathers and wings to one of Hayden's white fleece hoodies so he could be "Hedwig."

Ron, Harry, Hedwig, Snape, Hermione, and Trelawny (who was taking the picture.)

October 25th:

Sugar Cookies on Saturday night. 

October 29th:

Wednesdays are short days at school--so they had all the class parties and costume parade on Wednesday.  Dallin and Arthur made Harry's "Nimbus 2000" out of branches from our recent pruning projects.  Dallin was so proud of it.  Daphne is dressed as a scarecrow because all the kindergarten classes dressed as scarecrows together.  It was really cute!

The Hubert Humphrey Costume Parade

October 29th evening:

Carving Pumpkins

October 30th:

Sean dressed up as Woody for his preschool Halloween Party.  Sometimes Sean likes to go to preschool and sometimes he doesn't.  It just so happened that Thursday was an off day--I barely got him to stay for his Halloween Party.  ???  I can't figure this kid out.

October 31st:

Me with my little ones who are ready to head out for trick-or-treating.

I stayed home to pass out candy this year, and start the home-made donuts for when they returned home with their sugary spoils.

Here they go!

And now they're back!

Hayden wasn't about to miss out on any of the treats. 

 He scavenged and found anything left unattended for more than 2 seconds.

Despite all the sugar, Sean is still looking forward to the "circles!" 

We enjoyed donuts after changing into jammies and watching "Harry Potter."

Happy Halloween!

Jack-O-Lanterns!

We carved pumpkins for Family Night this week.

Here's Dallin scooping out the guts.

Sean wasn't very interested in gutting or carving the pumpkins. In fact, we ended up putting him to bed after he scribbled on his pumpkin and then ran off somewhere--probably to break some more DVDs.

But Daphne and Dallin enjoyed it.
Daphne requested a "cute happy face," which Arthur helped her with.
Very cute and very happy, don't you think?

Dallin designed his very own angry face, which came out great. And those straight lines make for some speedy carving action. It's the blasted curves that take forever!

I ended up carving a face Daphne drew since Sean's design was impossible to carve.
Halloween just brings out the creative genius in us all. Happy Haunting!

Happy Halloween!

We did a Narnia theme this year. Dallin was dressed Sir Peter Wolfsbaine. (The cowboy boots really completed the outfit, I thought.) Daphne was Queen Lucy, and Sean was Asland. Dallin & Daphne had a great time trick or treating and as they ran from door to door, their capes would billow in the wind. It was very dramatic. Meanwhile, Sean sat in the stroller like a little king munching on banana bread.