Halloween Fun

What would October be without costumes, candy, and parties? Just another month with 31 days in it I guess! We had a great time this year...here are some pictures.

This year the girls needed new costumes, and I don't know how we managed it...but we strayed away from the traditional princess costumes! Hooray!!!

Brooklynn was a flower fairy...I had lots of fun with her costume. It is made entirely from scrap fabric that I've accumulated over the years from old formals to old curtain sheers that I didn't like anymore. It was a fun project, and seemed to fit her personality really well...cute and spunky.

And Rachey was Sacajawea, or Tiger Lily, or an Indian Princess depending on who asked her and what type of mood she was in. I spent a couple of nights sewing the beads onto her costume...it was really fun and she was really proud of it.

We all got dressed up for our ward's annual Halloween Party. Andy and I pulled out our Raggedy Ann and Andy costumes...and won the "cutest couple" award. I think that Andy should win the "bravest man" award when he wears that costume...he's a good sport.

Matthew was a little intimidated by all the noise at first, but then settled in. He quickly grabbed a golf ball from the miniature golf game, and a marker and got busy creating.

Taylor had fun helping out with the squash bowling game. He's really growing up!

We also went to the Lake Farmpark's Halloween Hayrides this year. It was a rainy night...but we still managed to have a good time. October must be a busy month. Brooklynn zonked out on our way TO the hayrides.

The kids favorite part was the Haunted Hair Salon. Andy and Matthew went into a booth, and were magically transformed into a witch! Taylor was laughing so hard, Brooklynn looked a little concerned, and Rachey just stood there trying to figure it all out. Then they magically appeared again.

The kids also did a haunted hay maze. Taylor went through it a bunch of times. The girls were pretty much done with it after the first time through. Andy and Rachey were having fun with the scarecrow.

For Brooklynn's preschool class, she was supposed to dress up as a community helper. She wanted to dress up as a Veternarian. Here she is complete with cat carrier...which actually had her stuffed horse in it.

When the kids came home from school on Halloween, the first thing they did was to gather in the kitchen to show and share their prizes from class parties.

Then I let them get started on our giant pumpkin. They all took turns reaching in and getting the goop out. Rachey had pumpkin seeds and yucky sticky pumpkin innards up to her elbows.

And the pumpkin was so big, that we did a couple of different designs on it.

Taylor chose to do a bat for his side.
And this is the 2nd year now that we've had our Halloween Dinner. This year we had eyeball stew (tomato soup with tortellinis), tarantula teasers (ritz crackers w/ peanut butter), mummy fingers (hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls), bleeding brains (spaghetti squash with red butter), and bug juice (lemonade, strawberry punch with raisins and gummy worms). The kids love this tradition and are amazingly willing to help with dinner on this day.

We took the kids Trick or Treating...and wore Matthew right out. Our little Peter Pan went straight to bed.

While the rest of us went downstairs to have a Halloween Wii Tournament. We had to break in Andy's birthday present, which was the new game Outdoor Challenge. Everyone loves it...and after we sorted through the kids' candy we had plenty to snack on while burning those sugar calories!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!