We had a great Halloween this year. The girls were able to be exactly who they wanted to be. Since we didn’t need to buy any costumes this year I could focus on the ‘accessories’. Like Téa’s Time Turner necklace and Calista’s Ruby Slippers.
Piper really wanted a Jessie (from Toy Story) hat from Disneyland so I convinced her she should dress up as Jessie for Halloween. I was able to make her shirt and then the costume was complete. Calista wanted to be Dorothy and Téa wanted to be Hermione. They all looked perfect. For some reason I didn’t get them in individual pictures or close ups of their costumes. Still kicking myself for that.
We had our ward trunk-or-treat a week before Halloween.
Don’t even get me started on the whole ‘trunk-or-treat’ thing. Why in the world do we need to have one when we live in a perfectly safe neighborhood…and Halloween wasn’t on a Sunday. Mark and I have decided to not go to these anymore. The kids get plenty of candy the night of Halloween. And they get the adventure of having to walk through the neighborhood. Trunk-or-treat is just another name for ‘lazy trick-or-treating’. The dinner part is fine and fun to hang out with friends in the ward but we could totally skip the trunk-or-treating.
For Family Home Evening the Monday before Halloween we did our traditional pumpkin carving activity. Mark positioned himself perfectly so that he could still watch the World Series while scraping pumpkin guts.
We found this in Calista’s pumpkin. One of the seeds sprouted and started to grow…inside the pumpkin. It was a good six inches long.
Best part about carving this year was the view we had while doing it…
The final product. Left to right: Calista’s, Piper’s and Téa’s pumpkins.
Every year the school does a Halloween parade. I think it’s an excuse for the teachers/kids not to have to do any kind of work that day. Which is fine. Kids are way too hyper to do school work when everyone is dressed up in costumes.
As soon as Mark got home from work we headed to Jeff and Alison’s house to be a part of Tamsyn’s mission call opening. What a great Halloween present for her! She is going to the Indianapolis, Indiana mission. She will enter the MTC the end of January. We are excited for her but will miss her terribly.
After the mission call opening we rushed back home so the girls could scarf down some ham and potatoes and then head out for trick-or-treating. This year my neighbor, Jen asked if she could tag along. Her oldest, Zoey is three and Jen thought she would have way more fun hanging our with our girls. They had a blast together. The girls were even nice enough to help carry Zoey’s treat bag in between houses.
You can’t tell in this picture but for the first few houses Piper held Zoey’s hand to help her.
And all the girls together.
Téa ended up coming with us for only an hour then headed to a friend’s house to play some games and hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. Calista, Piper and Zoey made it a full two hours until Piper needed a bathroom so we headed home and said goodnight to Zoey, Jen and baby Skylar. Piper was done walking house to house but Calista had tons of energy left so I took her back out. We had a blast walking around the neighborhood together, just the two of us. Calista was brave enough to trick-or-treat at one of the ‘scary’ houses but still wasn’t ready for the ‘scariest’ house near their old bus stop. Maybe next year.
2 comments:
Yeah, I don't get why wards in Utah and other safe areas have started the trunk or treat thing, especially since they aren't doing it on Halloween. Out here in Houston it makes sense where you don't know most of your neighbors, but we still missed taking Emilee to houses for the real experience.
The kids looked great and I loved seeing sweet Calista and semi-sweet Marsha on my doorstep that night!
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