No Tricks! Lots of Treats!

Wow - what a busy Halloween week we had.  It seemed like there was something fun to do every day.  This year we decided to get 6 pumpkins (one for each of us) but Jay was not thrilled about the thought of carving all of them so we decided to let the bigger kids paint three of them and then design what they wanted carved on the remaining three.  Jay decided to free hand as the kids dictated what they wanted and they came out great.

 

Then the carnivals began.  A friend invited us to join her and her children at their church fall carnival.  This place was HUGE and awesome!  An entire baseball field filled with inflatables, games, candy, costumes, prizes, and more candy!  The kids had a blast.

 Our church also had a fun carnival and of course the kids played all the games, jumped in the bouncy, and got lots more candy.

This was Lilah Grace's 1st Halloween so in our tradition she had to have an appropriate outfit.  Well she didn't just get ONE but rather TWO!

She also had two costumes (one was a hand-me-down that I couldn't resist using).  They had a common theme in that they were both bugs and pretty appropriate since at times I call her my little Lilah Bug :)

Payton's school had their annual Math Night and the kids got to dress up and enjoy a hayride and many different math themed activities throughout the classrooms.  We ran into many people we knew and the costumes were all so cute.

Halloween day was very busy but extremely fun.  Payton's class (and all other First Grade classes) had a field trip to Sims Family Farm (nope no relation) complete with a corn maze, corn angels, bouncy slides, games, camp fires and a cool hayride.

I rushed right over from the field trip to meet Cole in his class for their Halloween Party.  So many goodies and yep we went home with yet another goody bag of candy (get the theme here).

And of course the event the kids have been counting down for, Trick-or-Treating.  A good friend brought her three boys over and they all had a blast running around the neighborhood filling their bags.  We only made it a couple of streets before everyone was tired and our bags were too heavy to carry.  Graham was so funny because he was running full speed up to every house and then he would run back holding his bag open yelling "Look what I got".  Cole came to tell us he said "Thank You" at every house and Payton was very sweet and helpful.  Lilah Grace rode in her stroller and took it all in - she fell asleep half way through.

Our kids had a theme - the Spider Family.  We had Black Spider Boy, Red Spider Boy, Spider Girl and Spider Baby.

Graham and Payton wanted their faces painted so I did the best I could (Google helped me out).

The kids had so much fun and us parents enjoyed watching them.  Our kids were totally wiped out at the end.  They couldn't even take off their costumes before they passed out.

As you can see there is no lack of candy in our house.  What a fantastic Halloween Week :)