Halloween this year was awesome! The kids are all old enough to get the hang of trick or treating and wearing costumes. We had lots of fun events to dress up for and there were lots of treats to go around! We kicked off the month of festivities at the realtor's party I posted about in the October post. About a week after that we carved the pumpkins the kids picked out. Talia wasn't feeling great that day and opted out of decorating, but she did help me decide on a design for her pumpkin and I did all the work. :) Beckett worked on his own pumpkin this year and is the only one of my children who didn't hate touching the pumpkin guts. I pulled a bunch of them out for him and he got mad and cried until I put them back in. Silly boy. We ended up with some great pumpkins. Pikachu was Davin, storm trooper was Weston, elephant was Beckett (carved by Ian), and Jack Skellington was Talia (carved by me). We also had our traditional donuts on the cat that night!
Talia got to dress up for dance class on Thursday and her cute teacher sent us the group picture they took. Too cute!
Talia dressed up again on Friday for her preschool Halloween party. She has such a fun class and teacher! The boys dressed up for school on Friday too. The little ones and I went to the school's Halloween costume parade first thing in the morning to watch the kids come through. I love how festive their school is. I didn't see a single teacher not dressed up. All the kids were in some kind of costume too. Love it!
Friday night was our ward's chili cook off and trunk or treat party. Even I joined in the dressing up fun! The ward party was actually a major success. The kids loved the trunk or treat and lots of people decorated their cars. I borrowed a simple idea from Pinterest for our trunk, but I think it turned out good. Beckett thought trunk or treating was the best thing ever. He went around the parking lot a few times, but since he's cute it was fine.
Saturday was kind of a long day as we waited for it to be trick or treating time. I went to Halloween Zumba that morning. It was seriously so much fun. I love Heather's Halloween playlist and it was just a fun group. Definitely my favorite way to exercise!
Weston had his last soccer game of the season that afternoon. I stayed home so that Tal and Beck could both take naps before Halloween night. Late that afternoon we ordered jack o lantern pizzas and had dinner with the Curnow's. We headed out to trick or treat pretty early. Davin had a friend come with us and Mel and Brad helped Wilson.
I love Halloween in our neighborhood. There are so many kids and the houses are close together. There are so many kids out that the streets basically shut down. We went around with some neighbors for awhile and all the kids found friends. Davin and James (his buddy) found his parents and went off with them. Weston found his friend, Grant, and went off with him, so it was just me and the little ones! Beckett got tired and headed home with Ian after about an hour. I took Talia and kept going. She was a trooper! We stayed out another hour! It was really fun taking just Tal. She was pretty cute and happy.
Mel and Brad held down the fort at the house handing out candy. When Ian brought Beckett home he threw a giant fit and was still screaming when I got home. I got him calmed down and we all finished watching a movie before the Curnow's left and we called it a night. Weston and Davin ended up hanging out at their friends' houses until 9. It was weird to have big kids like that. Weird, but fun! After we got the big kids settled in bed Ian and I went down the street to our friends' house and curled up to watch a scary movie with loads of candy and popcorn. It was a pretty great Halloween!
