Ok, so there are a ton of pictures from our Halloween festivities!! We only had a million different things to go to! It all started when our awesome neighbors, Jason and Kristy brought the girls a bucketful, literally, a bucket full of goodies! Included was fingernail polish, which Taylor was very excited to use!!
Next we did a little pumpkin carving...the little pumpkin because we were saving the big one to do with some friends later in the week.
Taylor had decided that she wanted to be Merida from Disney's movie Brave.... I really didn't want to spend any money on costumes and things so I made her a brave dress out of some curtains that the previous owners of the house left. She liked the dress but said that she needed red hair to be brave. Well, I was happy to oblige and we set out to dye her hair with KoolAide.
So the pictures look pretty good, right? Well, everything I read said to rinse with cold water if you wanted a short-term dye job....well our cold water rinse made it really short-term...like it came right out on the first wash. After the trauma of the first attempt at dying her hair, Taylor decided that she didn't need red hair, but that we just needed to curl it!
Well, our first Halloween shindig was at the local Zoo. You have to get tickets in advance because it is so popular, so of course it ended up that I picked the coldest day of the year!! It was something like 35 degrees the day we went and earlier in the afternoon it actually snowed! The girls thought the shuttle bus ride to the Zoo was AWESOME!
They had all sorts of cut-outs to take pictures with. Taylor wanted her picture taken at every opportunity, while Jordan, on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with it!
We had to get one of little Matthew! Everyone thought his "costume" was the best!
One more cut-out!!
Don't be alarmed....Matthew just wanted to get into the holiday spirit!! Jordan was coloring with markers and decided that Matthew might like a red one!! Thankfully it came off pretty quickly!
Our next even was the ward Trunk-or-Treat. This, unfortunately, is the best picture of all three kids that I was able to get this year. Matthew isn't a very cooperative subject and didn't like to leave his toad stool on his head!!
Here we all are at the Trunk-Or-Treat. Yes Rob and I were spoil sports!!
Wednesday night, while Rob was at school, the girls and I attacked the big pumpkin. We looked online and found a witch pattern that we all liked and decided to carve that instead of the traditional jack-o-lantern. The girls did a fairly good job scooping the guts out, but Jord decided pretty quick that it was too dirty of a job for her!
Matthew was as happy as can be just playing with the bowls in the cupboard while we worked on the pumpkin!!
My camera wasn't cooperating, but here is a bad picture of the finished product!
It was rainy on Halloween...so I had the bright idea of going to the mall to trick or treat. You wouldn't think anyone else would have that idea on a rainy Halloween!!! Well, we got one piece of candy and then walked among a throng of people past about 10 stores before we decided that it wasn't worth it. We met up with Devin and Marissa and decided to call it quits at the mall and head for home!
When we got home from the mall, our neighbors up the street texted and asked if the kids where still up and asked if they could stop by. Their daughter had some friends over, and they each took a turn reverse trick-or-treating the girls. They would ring the door bell and when the girls answered the door the teenagers would hand the girls handfuls of candy! They loved it! I'm hoping they'll come back every year...then we won't have to take our kids anywhere!
Here's my last pictures! My little Brave and my little Minnie Mouse. They sure are cute and lots of fun!
