Monday, November 8, 2010

Halloween


And only a week late. We had a lot of fun Halloween festivities. The ward trunk or treat was excellent. A lot of fun carnival games for the kids, and then a lot of candy gathering of course.

We also went trick or treating around the neighborhood. Around here there is one street that closes to traffic that's like a "Halloween Lane" or something...all the houses on this street decorate and ALL the kids in town go there. I've heard that there are big lines and the kids get one piece of candy per house, etc. So we just trick or treat around our neighborhood. Our kids are LOADED with candy. We had one trick or treater at our house, and I think our kids were probably the only visitors at other houses. Needless to say, they were quite a hit at every house and got all sorts of attention...and candy...

Tyler was Mario, Hailey was a Barbie Mermaid, Ashley was a giraffe and Jason was a shark.




We also had this skeleton that was motion sensored and would talk when you walked up to it. At first,Jason wouldn't get close to it (like in this picture). But by the end of the night he wasn't as scared. That's all he talks about still--he says, "the scary guy fell over" (the wind blew it over one morning) and, "the scary guy....ha ha ha" and he mimics the way the skeleton laughs. It's really cute, I hope he doesn't have nightmares.

2 comments:

Sam Howard said...

Good call on trick or treating through the neighborhood. We had an elderly lady come to our house a day early to give our kids candy because she was going to be gone. I think your children were actually doing a service project to your neighborhood :)for all those who got joy from seeing your little darlings.

Lisa said...

I love the costumes - you have a great Mario! We had a weird trick or treating experience - some adults came by with their kids and after I gave their kids candy bars, the parents held out their own buckets and helped themselves, too!