Trick or Treat!!

I have decided that Halloween is one of my all time favorite holidays. It is so fun to watch the kids choose what they want to be and to help them get all dressed up. Then, I love their unbelief as they realize that all they have to do is knock on someone's front door, say, "Trick or Treat", and the person will just give them candy! Everyone is just out walking around with their trick-or-treaters, then everyone comes home, checks out their loot, make some big candy trades and the holiday is over. It is very fun, simple and relaxing, and it is the start of the Holiday season. This year, since Halloween was on a Sunday, our ward had a Trunk or Treat. The kids really got into it and even decorated the back of the car for the trick or treaters.

Ashlynn was Daphne, and I thought it would be really cute if everyone else dressed up like Scooby Doo and the gang, but nobody wanted to be Velma - poor Velma, so there went that great idea.

Talie was a Hippy, and she went to her first school dance with her friend Megan. She had a lot of fun, and didn't dance with any boys (of course we had to get the full scoop=).

And, Kennedi was a princess, well, kind of. For the Trunk or Treat she was a dragon, but when she saw that all of her friends were princesses, she decided that she needed to be a princess for Halloween.

Yes, I know that there are no individual pictures of the boys in their costumes, apparently, they didn't make Talie's photo shoot. Dallin was Bob Marley and would sing requests - if you want to call it singin=), and Peyton decided that being Spider Man was so good last year, that he had to be him again. Score for Mom!

Here are our final masterpieces. Unfortunately the next morning we woke up and the squirrels had eaten the front off of all of our Jack-O-Lanterns

I was surprised at Peyton's long attention span when he and I worked on his Jack-O-Lantern together. We carved a haunted house and he stayed right with me the entire time until it was finished. We also got into Halloween books this year and found a favorite, "Mr. Neewollah".

Although pumpkin carving gets a lot easier and more fun each year as the kids grow older, somethings don't change. The kids thought the pumpkin guts were gross again this year, and they still agree that pumpkin seeds are not worth eating. Aaahh, I love fall! Happy Halloween!