Halloween 2015

Halloween was a success. The kids raked in mounds of candy and are happily on a sugar high today.

We started our Halloween festivities a week early with a Halloween party at our friends, the Allens' house. The Reimanns came, too and it was a blast. Dinner and running around playing, topped off with a donut eating contest and Make Daddy a Mummy game.

 Luckily we weren't on top of things enough to carve pumpkins at FHE on Monday like we had planned. Instead we did it on Wednesday.

 By Saturday (Halloween) our pumpkins were looking extra spooky thanks to mold growing inside.

 One more day and they would have turned to mush.

In fact, by the time we threw them away Saturday night they were getting pretty squishy.

Spooky Annie:

 Annie's school had a storybook parade. Annie's costume was a bunny, so she brought along the book Little Rabbit Foo Foo.

 Ryan wanted to be Heat Wave for Halloween from the Rescue Bots (Transformers). We went to Walmart to look for a costume and he saw an Iron Man costume (he is not at all familiar with Iron Man) and was so happy. "Look! It's Heat Wave!"

 So Ryan was Heat Wave/Iron Man. He was all excited about the mask, but come Halloween night it had lost its appeal and he didn't want to wear it anymore.

 Annie the Fox Bunny:

 (She got the fox shirt for her birthday and declared that it was perfect for her costume because it was white and had long sleeves so she wouldn't be cold.)

 Rachel, the black cat:

 Megan was NOT pleased with the Minnie Mouse dress Annie wore a few years ago that was supposed to be her costume. So she ended up in her pajamas and was a pink giraffe instead.

 Peyton and McKenzie joined us as cupcakes for trick or treating.

 Megan lasted half way around the block before I brought her home to hang with Dad passing out candy. Ryan was tired of walking by then, too, so I came back with a stroller for him. Annie was done about 3/4 of the way around the block and didn't even care about more candy, just wanted to be home. So while I had told Rachel we could go around 2 blocks this year, everyone was very done after 1. I did take Rachel out for 10 minutes longer after we dropped everyone else off, so she hit maybe 5-10 more houses before she was ready to head home, too.