Happy Halloween! We had a great time getting ready for and celebrating Halloween this year.
Our costumes turned out awesome but more on that later. First, we spent a night carving pumpkins. A few weeks ago, Tyler and Ashley moved up to Smithfield. It is nice to have some family close to us again. We invited them over to carve pumpkins together so it was a fun get together.
Everyone carved their own pumpkins this year including Brooklyn. Okay she just scraped all of the guts out and we carved it. Charlotte also scraped the guts but let us carve for her. Each of the kids designed their own pumpkin and each was very creative in their own way. Brooklyn loved pulling out all of the pumpkin guts and didn't want us to take the pumpkin away from her. Mavis also loved playing in the pumpkin guts. Both of them were happy and messy babies.
All of the pumpkins turned out so creepy cool! For as long as we have been carving pumpkins in our family, we have never used a carving kit. We have always just used a knife and spoons. Tyler and Ashley brought over their carving kit with little saws and scrapers and it was soooo much easier to carve our pumpkins with the kit. I am definitely going to buy one of these carving kits after Halloween when everything goes on sale. That way we will have one for next year's pumpkins.
I also made Brooklyn her own Trick-or-Treating bag. I have made one of these for each kid and it only took me a year and a half to make Brooklyn's.
She seems to like the black kitty bag I made and points to it and says, "Kitty, Meow!"
As we were getting out our Halloween decorations, we found our old Flintstones costumes from when Emily was a baby. We knew the Pebbles costume would only fit Brooklyn this year so Emily wanted to be the Flintstones again this year. Because we have double the amount of people in our family this time around, we had to make a few more costumes for the other kids so we could all match.
Because of this, we had to create the Rubble's costumes as well as one for Dino. I think the costumes turned our pretty great. It was nice to do family themed costumes this year because it has been a while since we have done this. First, meet the Flintstones and their pet dinosaur Dino:
Next we have the Rubble's, Betty, Barney and Bamm Bamm.
The Dino costume was the one everyone wanted to be. Originally the Dino costume was planned for Logan. Then Colby wanted to be Dino instead, then I thought Charlotte should be the dinosaur because Bamm Bamm is a boy. Finally after much debate and arguing, we went back to the original plan and had Logan be the dinosaur. He was pretty happy about that. When Colby learned that he could have a club with his costume, he was happy about that too.
Russell and I were of course Fred and Wilma Flintstone with Brooklyn as our baby Pebbles. Then Emily and Colby were Betty and Barney Rubble with Charlotte as Bamm Bamm.
We have never tried the blow up costumes until now and the dinosaur was pretty fun. Logan loved running around chasing everyone and pretending to eat them.
But then Bamm Bamm turned on Dino and started chasing him with her club. That made the dinosaur run away. They had a good time chasing each other.
The blow up costume was fun but by the end of the night of Halloween, the batteries in the air blower were shot so the costume kept deflating. By the end, Logan just took it off and finished trick-or-treating in his regular clothes. He did say that the costume was pretty warm though.
On Halloween, the elementary school had their annual Halloween parade. The weather was perfect and we didn't even need a jacket. It was nice to be in the sun.
As the kids walked by with their classes, they waved to us. It was nice that the weather was warmer than usual because Flintstone costumes are not really winter outfits. We had to get creative with the layering but it worked out.
To top off our ensemble, we had to make the Flintstone car.
We knew we needed something to haul the baby in so we rigged the wagon to look like the Flintstone car. It turned out perfectly. We planned to use the wagon while Trick-or-Treating but Brooklyn refused to sit in it very long and preferred to walk so that she could go to the doors to get candy. So basically we pulled the wagon around the neighborhood for no reason other than it matched our costumes. Oh well, Brooklyn had a blast getting candy with the older kids. She thought she was so cool walking to every house like her siblings. This kind of made Trick-or Treating slow going be we had a good time. Our neighborhood has the best set up for trick-or-treating. Emily's friend Hahna came along with us too. By the end of the night, we had walked two miles. I had a goal to reach three miles that day so while everyone was home counting their candy, I walked around the block a few more times to get one more mile in. When I got home, it looked like a candy bomb had gone off. There was candy everywhere! As part of the parent tax, Russell and I confiscated all of the Reese's and other good candy. The night was a success.
Speaking of awesome costumes, ours were pretty great but I think Jess and Josh are the winners this year. For their costumes, they were Lloyd and Harry from Dumb and Dumber. Josh even built the dog van to complete the costume!
I could not stop laughing when I saw the pictures of their costumes. The best part is that the costumes totally fit their personalities. This movie has always been their favorite and they can both quote every line. I think the dog van is amazing. Josh built it out an old golf cart or something so it actually drives. They both had a blast cruising around in that thing for weeks leading up to Halloween. Nice work you two!
Happy Halloween 2022!
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