Halloween begins very early in our house. Tavita is slightly beyond obsessed with this holiday. Our decorations were up early, we did a lot of crafts, and had many a gatherings with friends. All of which I got little or no pictures of. Here are the few we did take/ stole from friends cameras.
One night we made candy corn buckets for decorations and had ghost milkshakes for desserts.
We had a pumpkin carving party with the Shorts, Halls, and Hoovers. Had yummy soup in bread bowls to kick off the night!
Then the pumpkins came out. The boys did pretty good this year at scraping their own pumpkins. Kalei just stared in hers saying "YUCKY!"
The kids soon lost interest and ran off to play. I slaved away carving while Junior took a nap. Ok, so really I traced a little of this pattern while Junior was carving another pumpkin. He is our master carver and carved all three pumpkins. Some freehand and some with a pattern. They turned out awesome but we totally forgot to light them on Halloween. OOOPPPS!
Wouldn't be Halloween without some yummy dirt n worms!
The Tuesday before Halloween we had our annual Halloween carnival. The kids love it. Their favorite is always the spook alley.
Finally the long awaited night arrived and we headed out for some serious trick-or-treating. Ok so I only tagged along for a handful of houses then headed back to hand out candy. However, while I was gone our street had around 60 trick-or-treaters. By the time I got back (which was still early) we were only getting one every 20 mins or so. I had a glorious 1 1/2 hours of snoozing on the couch handing out the occasional handful of candy.
We came back and the kids started in on their much anticpated free for all of their loot. This little girl DID NOT STOP from the minute the first candy hit her bucket until bedtime. It was crazy how much she put away. Candy become very limited after Halloween night so she might as well get it while she can.
For some reason Tavita felt the need to hide while eating his candy even though every other kid had a bucket to themselves so there weren't any prowlers.
Brayden didn't have too much interest in the candy. He was having more fun running around playing with friends. It's become a tradition for us to have a post-trick-or-treating gathering at our house. Everyone brings a non-sugary snack to try and counteract all the sugar intake. The kids run wild while us adults enjoy eachothers company and hand out candy. Trick-or-treaters love it because one house yields several houses worth of loot.
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