Halloween 2010

Another Halloween has come and gone.  I love that this one day of the year holiday has become a week long event! Ok, I might have said that with a little bit of sarcasm.  Anyways, This first picture is of Brock and Mikele right before they left for school for their class parties. I went smart this year and for costumes headed over to my amazing friend's house with all the kids in tow.  I pointed at her Halloween costume box and instructed my kids to pick a costume. It worked amazingly well.

This picture is of all the kids reading their card from Grammy Norris.

I told the kids to look through their spiroscopes and see their worst nightmare, HUNDREDS OF ME!!!

Allie loves her new book. Thank you Grammy!

My cute little bumblebee!  Allie actually liked her costume. She enjoyed the whole Halloween experience. She was very protective of her candy bucket and although she didn't like taking candy from people she didn't know, if I handed it to her she was excited about it and wouldn't give it back.

Kassie the unicorn had a fabulous Halloween.  She had a wonderful time at her preschool Halloween party! (thanks Becca) She decorated a canvas trick or treating bag, made a skeleton from noodles, painted a pumpkin, made a pet spider who is now living in her room and put on a show for the Mom's.  The girls in the preschool group had a little costume parade and then recited 2 poems.  Kassie also enjoyed the trunk-or-treat (we have no pictures because we were in charge of the activity and were too busy to pull out the camera).  Kassie also enjoyed our door to door trick-or-treating.  It became a game to see who could get to the door first.  Kassie was sitting closest to the door so she would hop out and bolt for the front door while Brock and Mikele were still climbing out from the back of the van.  All of the kids ended the night with very heavy candy buckets.  Kassie, my very picky child, doesn't like over half of her candy so she gives it all to Jason.  Jason is totally fine with it because it is the good stuff like the chocolate candy bars that she is giving away.

Mikele also had a great Halloween.  Mikele dressed up as Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.  I think she actually looks pretty good.  I did buy the tie and wand but we borrowed the robe.  She wore Brock's Sunday shirt and had the black pants and boots.  We braided her hair Thursday night so that it was bushy for school on Friday.  The top picture in this post shows her hair right after we took the braids out on Friday morning.  

Kassie and Mikele attended a Halloween party at our neighbor's house the week before and had a fabulous time!  They decorated pumpkins, ate pizza, played games and came home with a bag full of Halloween paraphernalia.  She also enjoyed her class party, trunk-or-treating, trick-or-treating and then watching a movie before bed on Saturday. Sunday was officially Halloween but we really didn't do anything except eat candy.

 

Brock was a vampire.  We also borrowed his cloak and I bought a black shirt and the face make-up.  He actually looks kind of spooky in this picture.  Talk about getting in character! Brock had a busy Halloween as well.  He had a class party on Friday followed by the Trunk-or-treat.  Then on Saturday after our little photo shoot we went trick-or-treating down main street, to our friends, the Dentons, and then trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.  That night after we were home and enjoying our sugar high we watched the new Karate Kid movie. 

My Halloween Crew.  

Sadly Jason and I were too busy getting things ready for the Trunk-or-treat to even think about our own costumes.  Pretty lame I know but next year we plan to make up for this year's lack of costumes.

Allie and Kassie enjoyed an early morning treat after breakfast.  This picture cracks me up.  Check out Kassie's facial expression as Allie is scoping out Kassie's candy bucket. LOL! (you can click on the picture to make it larger)

Ah, much better. Each girl has her own candy bucket.  Happy Halloween!