I love holidays, I really, really do. I love to celebrate events and to make things special. I especially love this time of year. It gets colder and all the super fun Holidays happen one right after another. Halloween is the perfect kick off to a super fun season. We get to dress up, eat candy, play silly games and carve pumpkins. I mean that all equals fun. My friend Cindy has a foreign exchange student living with her from Sweden and they don't do Halloween there. She was so excited to participate in it but did not understand carving pumpkins. Which I can see that being really weird if you have never done it before. But I love it.
We carved pumpkins for our FHE activity.
We used pumpkins we grew ourselves. They never turned orange but they got pretty big.
This picture was take before a big piece of pumpkin collided with Annalise's face thanks to Dad.
The girls loved getting their hands dirty.
I think the feeling of the inners of a pumpkin in really cool.
Nora seemed to like the process.
Each girl requested what they wanted carved on their pumpkin.
Nora asked for Brave so Daddy did his best carving a princess.
Annalise wanted Mickey Mouse.
It was dark so it's blurry, but here are the pumpkins at night.
On Halloween I was teaching Preschool so we had a Halloween Party.
All the kids just happened to dress up like superheroes.
We played freeze dance party to Halloween music like Monster Mash and played other games like Don't Eat Pete with Halloween themed monsters.
We had a special all orange snack, like carrots, Cheetos, oranges and goldfish.
We then made little witches hats out of cookies and chocolate kisses.
Annalise was a big fan of the cookies.
My two spidey girls!
They were ready for more Halloween fun!
My friend had a free pass to the Children's Museum that she gave us.
Nora liked to pretend to drive the fire truck.
And the police motorcycle. She said she wanted one but I told her she would need Grammy's approval first.
We were the only ones there. I guess Halloween was a busy day for everyone else.
Nora pretending to be a vet.
She placed all the animals around her as she worked. Made me laugh.
Annalise loved the shopping carts.
They did a Day of the Dead mask at the museum.
They had sparkle glue that Annalise basically just squeezed as much as she could all over it.
See the big orange blob on the mask? All glue.
We had to wait until the next morning when they dried before they could actually put them on.
They are pretty creepy looking!
After the museum we went to Chipotle for dinner. They have a deal every year that you get cheap food if you dress up on Halloween. I got 3 burritos for $3 dollars each. Of course, I went to the Chipotle right next to the UofA campus so we were they only non-college students in there so I felt kind of ridiculous, but oh well. Good cheap food is totally worth it.
We didn't trick or treat that night since our neighborhood gets really busy from all the people who drive to trick or treat here. We're considered a wealthy area compared some of the poorer neighborhoods in South Tucson. On Halloween the streets are lined with cars and SO many people. My girls are young enough that just doing a Trunk or Treat is enough. Our Trunk or Treat ended up being scheduled for the day after Halloween, since that was the only day available to do it. I actually liked doing it the day after since we got to buy half off candy to give out. :)
Our family's costumes! We got all of these on clearance in May so we did a family theme. It was like $25 bucks for all of our costumes.
Our neighbors Grandpa Don and Grandma Noreen came over to take our pictures for us. They couldn't stop laughing. We looked awesome. Especially since it was the day after Halloween. After the activity we stopped by the grocery store in costume and got a lot of funny looks. I love that my husband doesn't care.
Our home teacher James and his wife Melony had THE best costume, though. They were Up, complete with dog, Doug.
Todd kept saying that he reminded himself of his father.
Halloween was so fun this year, and having Annalise well enough to be able to walk and play made it even better. I am so grateful for my children's good health. I am so glad we get to do silly things together as a family. I love you, my children. I'm sure your father and I will embarrass you soon enough. :)
With All My Love,
Your Mother
That getting Grammy's approval ploy is a great idea. I can be the bad guy cause you know my grandbabies will have to wait till I'm dead to ride motorcycles. I adore all the photos but especially the one of Todd looking in the mirror. He does resemble his Dad. Of course the theme helps so much. Thank you for your post. We are likewise so grateful for Annalise's recovery and that your family has generally good health. We are praying that our new little one follows the pattern.
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