Happy Halloween

Halloween is one of the kids FAVORITE holidays. This year they had plenty of opportunities to celebrate. They had school parties, trunk-or-treat at church, and the real trick-or-treat on Halloween.

This was the night of Trunk-or-Treat at church. Andrew is an evil emperor, Adam is Batman, Preston is Bumblee the Transformer, and Natasha is a monarch butterfly.

Waiting to have chili and nachos for dinner.

What a beautiful little butterfly!

After they went around to all the cars they stayed at our car to give out candy. It was impossible to keep Adam from eating it!!

Andrew with his skull staff that almost ruined Halloween. (see below)

On Halloween night we went Trick-or-Treating with cousins Kaeli, Alyssa, and Ian. Alyssa was a vampire, Kaeli a pirate, and Ian a skeleton. Now, the story behind the staff that almost ruined Halloween. Basically Andrew forgot to pack his skull staff and didn't realize it until he was getting ready that night. He was so upset about it that he came VERY close to not even going out for candy. He just thought that his whole costume was ruined without it. Lucky for us he eventually came out of it and ended up having fun instead of letting that ruin his night.

On this night Natasha went as Bindi the Jungle Girl. Papa made her the shirt and when she got it in the mail she LOVED it! ( I had got the butterfly costume as a back up just in case Bindi didn't work out). Going as Bindi was absolutely perfect for her and she looked really cute. On the back of her shirt it says "Extinct Stinks" with her name below it.

They had a blast and got tons of candy. Everyone kept saying that Adam was the cutest Batman they had ever seen. We started the night with seven kids and by the end we only had three. They slowly dropped like flies from being tired and went back to the house. The last one to give up was Adam (he did great and probably would have made it the whole time if he hadn't spent the whole day jumping on the trampoline). The last three standing were Kaeli, Andrew, and Natasha. Such fun memories.