Halloween Festivities

Every year my wonderful mother-in-law makes adorable costumes for my girls to wear at Halloween. This year she made gypsy costumes and they are awesome! The girls wore them to school parties, our ward trunk or treat, and out trick or treating too. Now they will head into our beautiful dress up wardrobe, also made by my m-i-l.
Here are some pictures of L modeling the costume front, side and back. Isn't it adorable?


And here she is heading out the door to her preschool Fall Harvest party on Friday. They had cookies and juice after going trick or treating through the school house. They also painted bats and pumpkins.
Here is K in her costume before heading to Trunk or Treat at our ward. This year we had hot dogs for the kids and chili for the adults outside in the parking lot. There was also ice cream cones for everyone. Inside the building were a couple of activities for the kids. They could put their hands inside of jack-o-lanterns and guess what was inside. One had guts (spaghetti) and the other one had eyeballs (olives). There was also musical chairs set up but the youth weren't ready to do it when we were there. After eating we went around to each trunk and got candy. The girls got a ton. When we go home I had them pick out 10 of their favorite pieces and put the rest in the candy bowl for trick or treaters Monday night.


On Saturday we went downtown to see all the pumpkins people set up along Broadway. There were hundreds of pumpkins and a lot of them were pretty cool. There was a guy with a HUGE pumpkin carving it. He said it would only take a few hours to carve his masterpiece but if he carved the same thing out of wood it would take months.

K is really into dinosaurs so she loved
this pumpkin with the Stegosaurus.

I would have loved to see the end product.

We thought this display from our local hospital was quite ingenious.
I love the open skull showing the brain and the one with the skull wound.

Anyone remember the California Raisins?

After looking at the display, we stopped at VooDoo Donuts.
I wasn't very impressed with their donuts but it was fun for the girls.

On Halloween we invited our good friends over for dinner and
trick or treating. I think it has become a tradition by now.
This is our fourth year doing it together. Aren't those kids adorable?
Two Gypsies, Rapunzel, and Cap'n Jack Sparrow.

Here is one of the houses in our neighborhood.
You can barely make out the girls at the door.
This was another cool house in the neighborhood.
It was a little spooky for L but she was fine with Daddy by her side.