Happy Halloween! We love fall in Cache Valley and especially love dressing up and enjoying Halloween.
The kids have been planning what they were going to be for Halloween for a whole year! They were so excited to finally put all of their plans to work and wear their costumes. This year we have a Captain American and Spiderman as well as a spooky witch and her back cat.
One of our favorite Halloween traditions is carving pumpkins. This year we carved 7 pumpkins, one for each of us and one for dinner. Each one of our pumpkins were different and reflected each of the kids personalities.
Yummy pumpkin guts! These funny kids loved scraping the pumpkins clean with their spoons. Russell was a great sport and carved the faces the kids drew on the pumpkins. When he was done, he finally got to crave his pumpkin as a Goofy face.
Here are all of our fun pumpkins. We even carved one as a baby for Charlotte. As you can see she is really enthused about it! When we were done, we put them on our porch for Halloween.
I think the pumpkins turned out really nice and spooky!
The Saturday before Halloween, Emily had a Halloween piano recital. Each of the kids got to wear their costumes to the recital. The song she played was called "The Witch on her Super Speed Broom" which was prefect for Emily because she wanted to be a witch for Halloween. She did an awesome job on her song. She was going to ride off the stage on her broom and cackle as she went but then she got nervous and said she didn't want to do that anymore. That was fine, I would be nervous to do that too.
After the recital, we went to the Trunk or Treat at the Young Auto Mall. We heard the advertisement on the radio as we drove past and the kids begged to stop. Since we were already in our costumes, we did.
While at the Trunk-or-Treat, we got to see the Aggie's mascot Big Blue. He was really funny and the kids adore him. Big Blue saw Emily's broom and tried to fly away on it. Unfortunately he was unable to fly and was pretty disappointed. The kids couldn't help but laugh at him.
Here are our cute kids on Halloween:
Charlotte got dressed up in two costumes this year. First for the piano recital she was Charlotte the Friendly Ghost. But for her real costume on Halloween, she was a cute little Black Cat. Both of these costumes were hand-me-downs from Emily but I added the tail and ears to the cat costume for Charlotte. Isn't she the cutest thing ever?
Next are our superhero boys:
Logan was Spiderman and Colby was Captain America. We found Colby's costume on clearance after Halloween last year and he has been waiting and waiting all year to finally wear it. Once I let him wear the costume this year, he wouldn't take it off. Logan's costume was a hand-me-down from Colby and one I made a couple years ago. Logan was also excited to be Spiderman and wore his costume constantly.
And here is our little witch. Emily wanted to be a witch since last year too. Luckily, we had my old witch costume from when I was in first and second grade. So Emily got to wear my costume and thought it was really cool. I put together the tutu and the hat band and we found the cool witch socks to complete the outfit. Russell took Emily and the boys down to the river to pick out a stick and willow branches for her broom. Then Russell and I built an awesome witches broom. Emily loved her costume and all of the accessories.
Our two superheros and our witch and her black cat. I love how their costumes turned out and the kids loved dressing up in them.
Another fun thing we did this Halloween was help in the kids classes for their Halloween parties. Russell and Logan helped in Colby's class by playing Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin while Charlotte and I helped in Emily's class playing ring toss on the witch hats.
I always like helping in the kids classes because I get to know their friends and teachers and it is just fun. After the parties, there was a big Halloween costume parade through the school. Russell and I loved seeing all of the costumes the kids came up with. The parade led to the playground outside where the whole school participated in a dance to the Ghostbusters song. It was really cool to watch and Emily and Colby were so funny to watch too.
That night, we all went Trick-or-Treating around the neighborhood. Colby ran from house to house getting treats. He knew what to do and was not wasting time. Emily and Logan tried to keep up with him. We went to all of the houses around us and finally came home because we were getting really cold. We had a great Halloween this year but ended up with way too much candy...
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