Halloween 2013

Halloween week was a busy one at our house. Lots of school parties and fun. Parker wanted to be a vampire this year. Paige was a witch, Paxten was Superman, and Pieper just wore a cute Halloween onesie. She was too little to fit into a costume this year. They all looked so great in their costumes and loved dressing up for school.

Parker's Spook Parade

This is Parker's first year attending Stoddard Elementary and so it was also his first Spook Parade at the school. Paige, Paxten and I arrived a few minutes before the parade was to start and got one of the last seats in the gym. After waiting for 30 minutes and still no sign of the "spooky" kids, I was beginning to wonder if it was going to happen. Then in walked the Principal, Mr. Wilson. Follwed by Parker's wonderful teacher Mrs. Hunt. Parker is number 6 in his class so he was right at the front of the line. He was very excited to see us there and to be wearing his costume, a Clone Wars guys, complete with a light saber. (Can you tell I am not a Star Wars fan, I don't even really know what he was!) It was an easy costume for him to put on all by himself at school, because they did not allow the kids wo wear their costumes to school in the morning, they had to put them on after lunch before the Spook Parade and class parties. Parker also took as a treat to his class a bag of Pumpkin Poop (Cheese Balls) to share with his classmates. I think he had a fun day at school celebrating Halloween.

My Little Trick-or-Treaters

On Halloween, I took out my littlest trick or treaters to visit my Dad and Mom at their work. Parker was at school and we were also going to visit after lunch for his school's Spook Parade. Isn't my Little Red Riding Hood and my little Lion so adorable?! I sure think so! After visiting a few places they were both ready to be done for the day, or at least until the Trunk Or Treat at the church.

Little Red Riding Hood

My mom found an adorable Little Red Riding Hood costume at a store one day when she was out and about and called me to see if Paige had decided what she was going to be for Halloween. Well she had talked about being a princess, just like every other year, and I was able to convince her how adorable this new costume would be. I told her it was red and while and that it had a red cape. After I said it had a cape she was all for it. When grandma brought it over, Paige was so excited and had to try it on. In fact one day she wore it most of the day to "make sure it fit!" Well yesterday she finally got the opportunity to wear it outside and to show other people. It was her preschool's Halloween Party and she was the inly one dressed as Little Red Riding Hood and she was adorable. There were several other "Princesses" and so I think she was glad that she went with something different. We even put together a basket with a napkin and cake in it to go along with the story. She had a fun time and was excited about the treats she came home with.

Now both her and Paxten have been fighting fevers all night long and we are hoping they feel well enough later to go see Parker in his school's Spook Parade and to do a little trick or treating later tonight. We are all so excited about Halloween and then Parker's birthday tomorrow. So we have a busy week this week!

Pumpkin Carving

We have to keep to our tradition of carving pumpkins. Our next door neighbors, the Cooks gave the kids each a pumpkin this year and so we didn't even have to go our and buy some. Matt and I decided that we would end up carving them anyways, so we didn't get one for ourselves this year. We decided that it would be a fun family home evening on Monday, the 22nd. The kids invited Claire, Avery, and Brittany over to join us and we had a good time cleaning out the pumpkins. The kids ended up playing and the adults did the carving, but it was still a fun tradition to keep. Parker wanted the grim reaper, Paige chose a mummy, Paxten got a traditional jack-o-lantern, and Claire chose a bat. They all turned out great and look awesome all lit up in the dark. Now we just have to keep the squirrels aways for a few days so we can enjoy them!

Trick or Treating

 

We took the kids to a few houses to go trick or treating. Mostly people in our ward and a few friends. Here they are ending the night at Grandma and Grandpa C's house. They ended up with a ton of candy between trick or treating, the ward party, and school parties. We will have candy here for months, yuck!

Halloween 2011

 

This year for Halloween I have Woody, a Princess, and a Dinosaur! Aren't they adorable!!

Paige was going to be a lady bug, in fact she was a lady bug for her preschool Halloween party, but last minute she changed her mind and wanted to be a princess. Sounds a little familiar! So I threw together he costume from her dress up clothes. She love it! It just goes to show that kids don't really care, they just want to dress up. I borrowed Parker's costume from a friend because we decided that the Darth Vader costume we had wouldn't work for the Church party or for the school Halloween parade, so we changed what he was also. He loved the costume and was happy to be Woody. Paxten could have cared less if he was dressed up or not, actually he probably would have preferred not to be dressed up. But I couldn't resist. This is the costume Parker wore when he was 1 and looked so stinkin cute. I think Paxten looks just as adorable. Tonight we are taking the kids around town to a few family members and friends. They don't really need the candy, and neither do I, so I doubt we will be out long. But I do have to show off my cute little kids!

Pumpkin Carving

 

We can't let Halloween go by without carving some pumpkins. Parker kept bugging me every time we went to that store about getting a pumpkin to carve. Both Parker and Paige were really excited about it this year. We decided to carve them on a Saturday after Matt and Parker went golfing. Paige and I (and Paxten) went and got the pumpkins, picking out a special sized one for each member of the family. When the time came to carve, the kids had picked out designs that they wanted their pumpkin carved into and neither of them could physically carve their own pumpkin. Parker at least helped by gutting his pumpkin as well as mine. Paige just mostly watched while I carved hers and my own. Matt ended up doing Parker's and his. So after almost 2 hours of carving my hand was sore and I was tired of carving pumpkins. Poor Paxten didn't even end up getting a little face out of his pumpkin. Maybe next year. He didn't care, he was asleep most of the time! So here are our creations this year. Paige wanted the monster, Parker wanted the skeleton face, I did the haunted house, and Matt carved out Big Dad. It was going to say Big Daddy, but his letters got too big! It is a fun tradition to spend the evening together and to get into the spirit of Halloween.

Halloween Costumes

The kids were able to get good use of their costumes this year, which I am happy with. We went to a Family Home Evening on my mom's side of the family. It was like all her cousins and their kids, and their kids' kids. It is something they do every year. It was a fun evening and the kids were able to play several games and get quite a bit of candy. Parker had his Preschool Halloween party on Thursday and dressed up for that and tonight we have out ward party/carnival. So the costumes have been put to good use. Parker is a Ninja (it had to be something with weapons of some sort!) and Paige is a Butterfly.