we carved pumpkins on monday night for FHE. this was the first time in 3 years... mostly because i don't really enjoy it. but the kids do, so it was time to do it again. and we had fun!
owen knew instantly that he wanted a cat. he loves cats... from a distance. if they get too close he gets scared. i suppose thats why he wanted a cat... they are a little spooky!
ellie drew her own silly face. its the second from the right in the top picture. the one below is jack's face and he did a lot of the carving on his own.
and charlie wanted bats
on halloween, chris was the call guy at work, so we didn't know if he would make it home in time for the festivities. we had our traditional mummy dogs for dinner and then got dressed up and headed out.
we had superman, a mummy, and rhett & link from good mythical morning!
originally, they planned to cut some diamonds in their shirts to show their belly buttons, like in the belly button video rhett and link sing, but it was cold and rainy so mom vetoed the idea. i'll post the video at the bottom. also, charlie had the perfect wig to wear but decided it was too itchy, so he went with a more recent Link 'do.
don't be fooled by the "easy" mummy costume.
this costume was a headache from start to finish!
wrapping her up caused me so much frustration and anguish that i was yelling at all the kids and may have even said a bad word during one of my yelling outbursts. it wasn't pretty. trying to figure out how tight/loose to wrap was tricky.
by the end of the night, everything from her waist down had gathered around her knees and ankles causing her to walk like a real mummy, not to mention the random pieces that were dragging behind her which others stepped on and tripped her. part way through the night we went to the car and grabbed the scissors and cut it all off. you can see some of her wrappings dragging behind her in this next picture.
it rained from the start and was pretty chilly, but luckily dad got off work and joined us which made us all happy! the rain stopped and we had a great time.
just like last year, owen was the leader of the pack! he loooooves trick or treating and runs from door to door, refusing any help from anyone. and that lasted almost to the very end of the night, when he finally gave in and let us carry his heavy loot between houses.
we first went out with our friends the westcott's in their neighborhood. they had been out for a little while before we got there (trying to avoid the rain), so once they finished we headed to the tenney's neighborhood to finish the night. taking a picture at night of squirmy kids is no easy feat!
we made it home, bathed kiddos, read scriptures and crawled in bed all by 9. i thought that was pretty amazing!
chris was lucky to get his post call day off of work, so we hit up walmart first thing after dropping off the kids to hit up some halloween sales. I'm really regretting not buying this shark head.
but I'm very glad we snagged iron man for a couple bucks! sure has made owen a happy boy and watching him march up to stores and around the neighborhood in his suit sure has made chris and i smile.
the kids got so much candy its ridiculous.
owen had a little over 5 lbs, which was the least amount out of everyone and ellie took the winning spot at 7 lbs 9oz. wowzers!
let the trading begin!
we couldn't pass up a couple creepy masks that only cost $2.50 to scare the kids with, haha! we've still got a creepy chimpanzee mask to get them with another time, muwahahahaha!
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I love that video of Owen and the WarHead. I had to watch it several times!
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