Halloween Fun

I have to admit I was feeling a little uninterested towards Halloween this year. Mark was gone for 2 weeks in China (again) in October which happened to be right before Halloween. He got home 3 days before and so I was not feeling up to decorating and carving pumpkins while he was gone. Poor kids. Anyway, when he finally did get home we got the two very small pumpkins from the porch that the girls got from Téa's preschool visit to the pumpkin patch and carved them the night before Halloween. They had a great time and I'm glad we waited for Mark to get home to do it.

Halloween night we decided to skip the ward's annual trunk-or-treat and treat our girls to the "normal" way of trick-or-treating. We went up to Saratoga Springs to Jeff and Alison's neighborhood (Mark's brother) and Mark's sister, Leslie and her family all came as well. It was such a fun night and the girls loved the fact that they got to trick-or-treat with their cousins. Thankfully Calista didn't fall and smear her face on the pavement this year. The only mishap was when Téa got suckered into being the first cousin at a house that had a guy leaping out of a coffin and saying "boo". Poor kid cried for like five minutes. I really hope she's not scarred for life.

As you can see Calista had fun scraping out the guts of the pumpkin. She did a pretty good job too.

I think Téa gets more excited each year for pumpkin carving and dressing up. She asked me everyday for weeks when we would carve the pumpkins and was always disappointed when I told her not until it's closer to Halloween. Thankfully the dressing up part was easy to take care of. With a box full of hand-me-down dress ups from older cousins, it's Halloween every day!

This is the Mom-are-we-done-taking-pictures-now-so-we-can-get-free-candy picture. I just felt bad because last year I didn't take any so I was trying to make up for it. Sorry Téa.

Here are just some of the cousins the girls got to go with. As you can see, Calista was none other than a princess. My mom made the dress 3 years ago for Téa for Halloween and I actually made the cape. Yup, that's right!