Halloween

I'll be honest, Halloween was a total flop this year.  I feel horrible about it, but there's no way around it.  We didn't move into our new house until November 2nd so when Halloween came we were still in April and JJ's unfinished basement.  It didn't provide much opportunity for me to make costumes for the kids, nor did I have very much time to do so.  We had no decorations to put up and no real ability to do any Halloween things before the holiday came.  We had no trick or treaters come to our house, because we had no house.  We had no friends to hangout with and have Halloween party's with.  We had no ward, so no Trunk or Treating.  And the hardest thing for the kids was no Spooktacular, the Halloween party Rimrock Elementary puts on every year.  I felt horrible for the kids.  Halloween is, besides Christmas, my favorite holiday of the year.  It really was sad to see it come and go and not have done really anything.  I guess I'll have to do a much better job next year.

Ben being a bat at the school parade (does the costume look familiar?)

I made Sarah's Vampire costume.  It looked terrible and I felt so bad.  Better job next year, right!

We were able to do a few thing for Halloween, even though we missed out on so many of the things we normally do.  The school had a parade on Friday and the kids walked the halls showing off their costumes.  Kenny's work had a Trick of Treat party that afternoon and the kids got to wear their costumes and go trick or treating to all the offices in his company.  They did really well on their candy stash.  Lawyers sure know how to hand out candy.

I took the kids to Logan on Saturday and went to a Halloween party at my Aunt Cindy's.  We were joined by my cousin Kristin and her boys Braden (7) Will (3) Charlie (1).  The kids had fun playing Halloween games, listening to Halloween stories, and eating brains and things like that.  It was a lot of fun and we were very grateful for the invitation.

Trick or Treating

We came back to Salt Lake on Monday afternoon (the kids had no school on Monday) and we did some trick or treating around Aunt April's neighborhood with our cousins.  The kids liked that and even though they didn't know anyone in the neighborhood, it was still fun to go with cousins.  One of the neighbors even had a hay wagon they hooked up to a 4-wheeler and were pulling kids around the neighborhood on.  It wasn't the greatest Halloween ever, but it wasn't the worst either.

(Note:  I did really poorly on taking pictures of the kids this year.  Sarah was a vampire, Ben was the same bat he was last year, Hannah was Rapunzel/a Queen (whichever she wanted to be a the moment), Gracie was the witch Hannah was 2 years ago, and both Dan and Adam were firemen.)