I have to post pictures of Halloween quick so family can see, plus I'm exhausted after all those Halloween activities, so I want to sit down for awhile! I am blogging about something that happened the day after it happened. Ha! How's that for a novel idea? But before we get to Halloween, there's a few more pictures to show.
In Cub Scouts the boys made milk jug masks. Their leader told me that sometimes she worries about doing crafts with the boys because they might think it's lame. But I think they love it, especially when they can make things that look gross.
The leaves our falling! Our happy linden tree keeps the kids entertained for a long time. And it's nice and warm outside, I just can't make them do chores or homework when I know they'll be stuck inside once the really cold weather hits.
Caleb wanted to be a zombie coming up from the leaves.
Brushing off the aftermath.
What a happy picture! I might have to frame that one.
Abby wasn't as sure about getting buried as the rest of the kids, but if they were doing it so could she. That's pretty much her attitude about everything right now.
Abby prepping for Halloween.
And the pumpkins! We went up to Idaho for Farris' mom's annual pumpkin party, which we always love. We were going to stay the whole weekend but Farris was asked to speak in church so we had to leave on Saturday afternoon. It was probably for the best anyway because Farris wasn't feeling very good and ending up sleeping after he gave his talk and staying home from work on Monday.
But back to the pumpkins. Judy always has about forty or more pumpkins for the kids to choose from and all the cousins have a ball together. We also did family pictures this year which is great because it's been awhile since we've had them with Farris' side.
And I keep wandering away from the pumpkins. We carved our jack o lanterns on Monday for Family Home Evening. Felicity found a pattern with the Headless Horseman riding his horse so she drew that on hers, minus the horseman. It turned out really good.
Caleb was going for Spooky and wanted to leave the knife in ti. I vetoed that idea, so he settled on sticking plastic spiders all over it.
Abby was just cute. I carved in Minion into hers. A word of advice, unless you're a better artist than me (as most of you are) do a two eyed minion, because the one eyed minion on a pumpkin looks a lot like Mike from Monsters Inc.
And Seth wanted to "marker" his, he just drew a face with the markers.
Joseph using his top as a shield. Farris carved a vampire for him.
On Halloween morning, I hosted our joy school Halloween party. The best thing about Halloween is the little kids in their costumes. Cute.
We played Spider Web, where they kids threw plastic spiders onto the tape web.
Here's our picture of the whole gang. At least I thought it was until the pictures were done and I realized that Seth had slipped out. He has his own idea of what he wants to do.
But here's Abigail with her little friends.
Then we played another spider web game where they had to walk along the web collecting spiders until they got to the center where they could pick a prize. We also had ghosts made out of plastic cups that they had to avoid. Then we played with pumpkin spice playdough and had treats, like eyeball cookies (Chocolate chip cookies with a mini marshmallow with a dot of food coloring for the pupil) and popcorn with candy corn and apples and pretzels with Pumpkin Pie dip. Yummy! I had another craft planned, but the kids were having so much fun with the playdough I just let them go. Preschoolers are easy to entertain. Sometimes.
After joy school was done we ate lunch and then hurried over to the school for Joseph's party. Because I was doing so much for the joy school party, we just brought twister. But I did it Hallooweenish by calling it Bone Bender and we made up monster names for the colors: Frankenstein's Head, Troll Spit, Alien Guts, and Vampire Drink. 2nd graders like a little gore.
Right after his party was the Costume Parade. I like this picture, not just for Joseph, but because the girl following him looks like she's levitating. What a great costume! Joseph was a stick figure, after going to through a dozen different ideas that he changed until about five minutes before he left for school. I had painted a white circle around his face, too, but he rubbed it off.
Caleb was Percy Jackson. My favorite kind of costumes are from books!
Felicity was a detective, and her friend Becca the Happy Darth Maul is next to her. Becca is the kind of person who can't stop smiling, even when she's supposed to be an evil Jedi.
After the costume parade we went to the sixth grade classroom for more Twister--err- I mean Bone Bender. And I'm proud to say that my daughter and her closest friends had no issue with too short of skirts during a twister game. Oh sixth graders! You don't have to grow up that fast!
Seth and Abigail were getting bored by the time the third party was done. We ran home and got dinner in the oven. I decided to try Dinner in a Pumpkin for the first time. Pretty tasty, except pumpkins aren't the tastiest of squash. I think next year we'll do it in a sweet meat instead.
Abby fell asleep sitting up before dinner and when I finally coaxed her awake she was not happy. Three parties and a costume parade? Too much Halloween for one little girl. But I love these pictures, how many Halloweens are really like this?
Oh, and I didn't introduce Seth's costume. It was actually a dragon, but he told people all day long he was an alligator with wings. And Abby was SuperGirl, complete with a cape (thank you Cindi!) and a tutu (thank you, Tasha!).
By the time we got to the Trunk or Treat, she had recovered her spirits and spent the rest of the night shouting "Hey! Candy! Hey!" Yes, that's verbatim.
Our alligator and detective.
Stick Figure and Percy Jackson.
Happy Halloween everyone!
