Halloween 2011

So, here is our Halloween post!!  About a week before Halloween we "carved" pumpkins.  Actually, the kids painted and drew and stickered their pumpkins.  Josh and myself had every intention of actually carving out pumpkins, but it got too late and then we just never did it!!  Maybe next year we'll just do a couple and let them help in the carving aspect.  Who knows, we'll see.

 Addison was super into drawing on her pumpkin.  She LOVES to draw.  She wanted to use paint, but I didn't see the need for that kind of mess.

 Brayden painted on his.

 Andrew drew on his and then found out the stickers were SO cool!

 Evan had a cool face drawn on his.  He has requested I get a better picture before throwing the pumpkins away.  I really meant too!!!  At least I still can.

The next thing we did was our ward's trunk or treat.  It was on Friday night before Halloween, and the kids were super excited and cute.  They had loads of fun and were able to come away with some great buckets of candy!  

 Aren't my Mario and Luigi SO CUTE!!

The Sunday before Halloween was Stake Conference.  We had signed up to feed the missionaries.  This is what we made them.   

 If you can follow it, here is the list of what we had:  Dragon Dung on the far left, then a vegetable pumpkin, a brain, eyeballs, ghosts, and bones.  Evan made the bones and really did an AMAZING job making the breadsticks look like bones.  Overall it was really fun.  The kids thought it was just SUPER!!

 For desert we had made these chocolate covered apples.  Oh SO GOOD!!

Then the big event arrived.  Halloween day was BUSY!!!!  I took Addison and Andrew to the Y for their Halloween party, then we got home, pretended to nap (no, THEY DIDN'T!) then off to the school for the Halloween parade and classroom parties.  The kids were cute and had great fun.  Then we came home, made dinner and finished laundry (Monday is laundry day! even on Halloween) and got ready for trick or treating.  It was probably the third time I had put their costumes on them in the day, ok, maybe only the second time for the older boys.  We headed out about 5:45pm.

 Because of the NO NAPS this was a super hard picture to get.  Andrew was pretty cranky, though he LOVED trick or treating and did a WONDERFUL job!

 Here is my cute little Elmo number one.

 My Mario Brothers (or Mario Bros. as they liked to call themselves).

And of course, my little Elmo number two.  Everyone just thought the twins were SO darling and just SO cute, like having two Elmo's was just a genius of an idea!  It was since I already had the one costume from the other boys!!  Andrew loved it and when he wasn't wearing it, he was caring it around like a stuffed animal.  So funny.

Well, that's Halloween for us for 2011.  Hope it was wonderful for you!!

Happy Halloween!!