Halloween Festivities

We've had a fun past few days with lots & lots of Halloween festivities. First was Maddie's preschool party on Wednesday. She was more than excited to wear her pirate costume. Here she is with her class.

Hitting the pinata after the parade.


Then that night we went to a trunk-or-treat. The kids were pirates, Ben was a monk, and I was a pregnant nun, which got way more attention than I was anticipating.

(Come to find out later that our RS President, who was laughing so hard when she saw me, was actually Catholic before she became LDS...and still has two aunts that are nuns, whoops. Hopefully I didn't offend anyone.)



The sister missionaries even wanted a picture with me...a little embarrassing.


Cam jumped right into the games they had inside. Here he is chowing on the donut he snagged from the donut on a string game.

Then during the day on Halloween we met up with most of the kids in our branch for a picture and then headed to the mall for some treat-or-treating. My kids were VERY uncooperative. Take notice of Maddie's frown and the fact that Cam isn't even in the picture b/c he refused.

Maybe I forgot to tell them we were taking pics BEFORE getting candy. They were very good for collecting candy at the mall, on the other hand.

Then last, but not least, we were invited to a Halloween party that night by some new friends. We had a yummy dinner and then headed out for trick-or-treating.

Cam surprised us all by being a real trooper, walking the whole way. He was also very good about saying "trick-or-treat" at each door and thanking them afterwards. What a guy!

They had so much fun with their new friends...and so did we. We came home to ONE trick-or-treater...guess we'll have to find out next year how many we actually missed. We were kinda interested since it's our first year in a house.

Happy Halloween!