Happy Halloween!

Candy

Between our ward's Trunk or Treat and going around the neighborhood on Halloween, the girls got plenty of candy! We decorated our trunk with a graveyard since we were all skeletons and saw some really fun outfits and trunks when walking around. It was nice to get together with the church family and show off our make up faces while it was still light outside. It was darker on Halloween and Chris didn't get home in time to put any make up on, and the girls wore their costumes from school. Buttercup came with us around the neighborhood and even got a treat from one of the neighbors which was a fun surprise. I saw a few other dogs going around the neighborhood and she was able to stay close to me because I had her on a very short leash just in case she got too excited. She still likes to jump up when she thinks someone wants to play and people running around is playtime.

Costumes

We had a family costume for our Monday night together even though Chris came straight from work and didn't change to match us since we was sitting at the car cuddling with Adrian as soon as he showed up. I let the girls have their own costumes for their school day and they just stayed in them instead of switching after. Shay was a witch and the only hard part was to figure out the hat, but we used a little decoration glued to a head band. Claire was Wonder Woman which I thought we had a costume, but it wasn't in their costume tote so I threw it together the night before with some fabric adhesive after cutting out the symbol and stars. I think everything turned out great and I'm sure the actual costume will show up eventually, and I didn't see another Wonder Woman during the whole school parade. I didn't get pictures because they only went around the track twice, last year they went around at least 4 times! I let Adrian wear a very warm monster costume that won't fit him by next year so might as well wear it at least once.

More Celebrating

Shay brought a lot of fun things home from her school's Halloween party, Claire had fun but was just excited about the movie they watched. Since they now love Hocus Pocus, they were very excited to see people at school dressed as the Sanderson Sisters! They had spirit days and for Wednesday I got a cute picture with the 70s Ghostbuster theme because I put ghosts in their hair that they were super excited about. For Halloween, we had little mummy pizzas because I thought it would be an easy meal Chris could eat quick, and it was fun. On Friday, our ward celebrated the Day of the Dead with a dinner and we brought pictures of our Grandparents who are up in heaven. Claire was most excited about her Grandma Twila because she recognized the name, but my name sake was exciting too. Lastly, we went to the library for the first time since school started because I was driving and picking them up from school this past week.