Happy Halloween 2011

Cooper's Halloween parade at preschool.

 Trunk-or-treat at the church.

 Carving pumpkins, we had lots of fun collecting the seeds. We didn't end up getting  to eat them because I burned them. :(

 Halloween dinner in a pumpkin

Lincoln got a bug bite after trick-or-treating, right above his eyebrow. This is what he looked like the next morning. It took lots of benadryl and two days before the swelling went down.

Happy Halloween 2010

Fall Violin Recital

Lydia worked so hard and just learned the song four weeks ago. It's times like these when she REALLY LOVES playing the violin and she was SOOOOO excited to have her friend Hannah there.

Kyler's Halloween Parade/Party

Kyler was having a Halloween parade at school, I didn't have the heart to tell Cooper he couldn't be a part of it. So the two of them got dressed up that morning. Kyler's teachers were so nice letting Cooper join the parade-they are two peas in a pod. If you look closely at the sack Cooper is holding it reads (Jurien dior) they only had sacks for the exact amount of kids in the class and since this boy was absent, guess who got it? It cracked me up to see his huge grin while I was taking his picture and seeing the name on the sack.

They played some fun games and had a whole plate full of yummy treats. Kyler was excited about the prizes he got and that he got a spider ring in all the colors-notice Cooper taking advantage of Kyler's empty seat.

Spooky House o' Lantern

The kids and I have had a lot of fun this year with Halloween. We have made pumpkin men (thanks to Lydia's craftiness) and a skeleton made from paper plates and giant spiders made from balled up paper and straw legs-then spray painted.

So when I saw this House o' lantern on Family Fun, I wanted to make one too. It's called this year I'm not 9 months pregnant. :)

I didn't take any pictures of the process-I have to admit I didn't think it was going to turn out. Instead of using card board like the directions said, I started out with a dollar store black plastic tablecloth. Measured all the windows and cut those dimensions from the tablecloth. Next I laid all the pieces down on the floor side by side like the actual windows. I drew the jack o' lantern face on all the pieces using chalk making sure to go BIG. Then I cut out the face and hung each window one by one with tape.

I opted not to hang orange behind the face like the directions just for time sake and I wasn't sure the light would show up bright enough.

The kids love it. Every night when we turn the light on to make it glow the kids say "Okay now lets go out and see our pumpkin face." See our paper plate skeleton in the other window?

Pumpkins All Around

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween. The kids enjoyed our traditional dinner in a pumpkin. All day they were asking if it was time to go trick or treating yet. After dinner was over we got them all suited up. Lydia was so excited to have her hair done like my "wedding hair" and that she got to wear some makeup. The boys as soon as they were dressed were ready to hit the streets.



Our first trick or treaters of the night were by far the cutest. Cooper was a spider, Lydia- Snow White and Kyler our Cowboy.

The kids survived walking the streets in order to get a bucket full of sugar. Damone went out with the kids, I walked with them for a few houses but went back to hand out candy at our house. As soon as they all got home and we went through all the candy, they immediately started to scarf their loot. Cooper had such a great time this year and every day since, he keeps saying "I wanna go trick or treating" Once a year is enough for me.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween

The Sunday before Halloween the kids looked so cute that I had to take their picture. Cooper kept throwing his pumpkin, he didn't want to hold it.

Practice wearing the costumes. I realized after Halloween was over I never got a side view of Kyler so when he was jumping with "Saddle" I took his picture so you could see it.

This is our annual dinner in a pumpkin. The kids loving putting on it's face before it goes in the oven. Lydia did the eyes and Kyler the nose and then they said they wanted a big squiggly mouth. It sure was yummy!

The is the pumpkin we carved. I was teaching the kids the art of cleaning out a pumpkin. Very easy and mess free. Trust me there is a right and a wrong way to gutting a pumpkin.

Here is the crew. We had our friends Dave and Kathy over and I forgot to ask if I could post their pictures or not, so I wont. We sure had fun.

The kids always come trick or treating to our house first. But Cooper had other plans-he was ready to go fill his pumpkin. (you can see him walking down the steps in the first picture) It was so funny, by the end of the night Cooper couldn't even hold up his pumpkin, he just walked from house to house dragging it behind him. He also just stayed at everyone's door after getting his candy saying c-ya over and over again. No one could shut their door on such a cute little spider so was stayed and visited with everyone we went to. Kyler got tired walking and so Dave put him up on his shoulders and it looked hilarious. One person we went trick or treating to said oh look the cowboy and his horse are getting a ride. We had a great time.
Happy Halloween!!!