Trick Or Treat

Before it gets too late...we had a great Halloween! Hope ya'll did too! Here are some fun pictures of our spooktacular day! (The cutie at the top of the post is my fabulous niece Madison with her Halloween candy that she got on her very first Trick-or-Treat! Way to go Maddie!)

Here is Dallin and Christopher after putting out the little scarecrow we got at Wal-Mart. Dallin was obssessed with scarecrows this year thanks to Elmo's Halloween and he insisted that we HAD to have one. This was the first thing we did on Halloween!

Here are the kids painting little pumpkins. We rented Elmo's Halloween from the library and Elmo learns about a bunch of different Halloween activities...so, of course the kids wanted to try them ALL. We didn't manage the hayride and we didn't MAKE our own scarecrow, but we did paint the pumpkins, carve the pumpkins, get a scarecrow, and toast pumpkin seeds...mmm. Thank you Elmo, you are the standard by which we live!

Here is Dallin with the pumpkin that he painted. He actually did a pretty good job. He got lots of red on it and a few other colors too. He took it very seriously.

Here is Kate painting her nose. She tired of the pumpkin quickly but she painted that nose for at least 15 minutes and was upset when we finally took her brush away. She was blowing blue boogies for a week!

Here they are getting ready to carve the pumpkins. They were sooo excited to do another Elmo Halloween activity. However, poor Christopher did all the work while they watched.

Here is the kids helping with the pumpkin guts...err...playing in the pumpkin guts. It was even messier than it looks. Kate loved to squish it and throw it in the garbage can. Dallin did not want to have anything to do with reaching into the pumpkin because it made his hands "yucky" but he was happy to help Kate put it into the garbage.

Here are our finished jack-o-lanterns. We took them to Nana's house and put them out on the porch there. Dallin is WAY upset that we didn't bring them home and is STILL asking if we can go back and get them or get new pumpkins from Wal-Mart and carve them. He LOVED all the Halloween traditions this year.

Here are the kids trick or treating with daddy before we headed over to Nana's house. We started pretty early though (before 6 is TOO early) and many people weren't home or weren't ready. The kids got some weird "candy" - someone's leftover brownies and someone's old Valentines candy....hmmmm Next year we don't go out till at least 6.

Here we all are trick or treating together in Nana's neighborhood. It was so much fun to go together. The kids had a great time. Maddie even held her own bag. Sooo sweet. Dallin and Kate did VERY well at saying trick or treat and thank you and only taking one piece of candy! Yay me! I learned though that my kids' costumes were WAY too hot for Texas. We were all sweating the entire time and poor Dallin kept asking everyone for water instead of candy and laying down on the concrete. Yeah....we cut it a little short so he could strip down at the house and hand out candy instead.