Halloween

We had the BEST Halloween this year! It was awesome!

It all started on Friday night, actually, when we did some of our family traditions. We invited Kassandra to join us, as she is practically part of the family. :) We made caramel apples to enjoy, listened to Halloween music, and carved our pumpkin. Katelee drew a design for the pumpkin in advance. Here is the pumpkin face she wanted.

Ready to get to work!

Cutting the pumpkin open.

EW! Pumpkin guts!

Cleaning the pumpkin out.

Yummy!

What's in there?Enjoying caramel apples. (While Gerald works hard on carving.) :)

The finished product!

We think the pumpkin resembles David from the book No, David.

After pumpkin carving, we drove to watch thjs light show, and the girls really got a kick out of it!

Fun night!

Saturday evening was our church "trunk-or-treat" and chili cook-off. Katelee got to wear her costume officially for the first time, and she looked adorable! Our little pink crayon!

On Halloween, we started the morning with homemade jack-o-lantern pancakes. Yum!

Katelee got to wear her costume to school in the morning. At school, we had a rockin' Halloween Party! As room mom, I was in charge of organizing the party, and I think it was a HUGE success! Gerald came a long and was a huge help, too!

We played:

bat balloon bop - keep the flying bat balloons in the air!

Halloween BINGO!

Pumpkin Bucket Coin Toss,
Pin the Wart on the Witch, and
Wrap your Friend up like a Mummy
The kids had a costume parade throughout the school!

And we made these cute stuffed pumpkins using the left over toilet paper from the mummy-wrap game. (The toilet paper was the stuffing.)

Following the craft, it was time for FOOD! I should have taken a picture of the food table - it was quite the spread and the kiddos thoroughly enjoyed it! Obviously, I've never been a room mom before or even attended a classroom party, but I think this one was a blast! The timing all worked out great and it was just a ton of fun!

Katelee and her teacher, Mrs. Nugent
After school, Katelee got to go to dance class in her costume. She was the cutest dancing crayon I've ever seen. :) The weather was absolutely gorgeous, so we walked home. Well, Katelee scootered home, actually, and she looked really cute scootering along all dressed up as a crayon. We got lots of smiles. :)

In the evening, we invited some of our friends over to have dinner with us and go trick-or-treating together. Lots of friends showed up! We took this picture before everyone came, and then forgot to take another one. :( But at least here are some of our friends that came for dinner.

This is the first year that Katelee REALLY went trick-or-treating for more than a block or two. She's getting older, and I think it helped that we were with a whole mob of friends! But we went trick-0r-treating for almost 2 hours, and she really got a ton of loot! We came home and organized it by color just to see what she had got:

WHOA!

Good thing almost all of it gets donated to the piano lesson candy bucket. Katelee doesn't mind. :)

Holidays are so much fun, and this Halloween was no exception! What a perfectly happy Halloween!