Halloween stuff

We had lots of Halloween festivities this year.  On Saturday, the 26th, we went to a neighborhood BBQ in the afternoon, followed by our Stake BBQ in the evening.  (Gotta love AZ in late October.  We had snow cones at the Stake BBQ.)  Right after the last BBQ we went to the town Halloween celebration.  We didn't do a whole lot there, but there was a trunk-or-treat set up by a local church.  We only went through part of it, because it was getting late and we were all tired.  I wish we would have got there sooner so we could have done the whole thing because the trunks were all decorated so cleverly.  It was fun to walk through.

 

Then on the 30th we had our ward trunk-or-treat.  There's not much else to say about that.  We all showed up, passed out candy, took kids around to get candy, and were done in about a half hour. 

 

We didn't do to well at getting pictures this year.  I forgot to take them before the trunk-or-treat.  Or rather, I didn't have time to take any before.  So, the only pictures I have of kids in costumes are from after the trunk or treat.

 

Natalie was Hermoine from Harry Potter.

I don't think we need much explanation here, but Kelton was a pumpkin.  I wish you could see his hat better.  It has a stem, leaf, and curly vine on it.  He originally wanted to be Sonic the Hedgehog, but I couldn't find what I needed to make the costume and didn't want to spend $30 on the stupid looking store bought one I saw.  It's funny because after Kelton told me he wanted to be a pumpkin and knew I was going to be making his costume, he said, "And I don't even care if it's kind of horrible!"  Wow.  Such faith in his mother's crafting abilities.  I assured him it wouldn't be horrible at all.  A pumpkin was about the easiest costume ever to make.

Damon was a monkey.  We bought this costume years ago for Natalie.  I love how ever since, we have somehow easily convinced each of our children to wear it, not only once, but two years in a row!  I think it may become a new Webb rule.  Arie better be on board.  And it's great because by this point, no one else who bought this costume is still using it.  When Natalie wore it, (and even somewhat with Kelton) there were handfuls of other kids wearing it too.  Damon got to be unique.  We got so many compliments on how cute he was.  But, as you can see, we didn't do a very good job of throwing it back on him to take a picture. 

And here is my absolute favorite picture to take of my kids in this costume.  It cracks me up every time.

Arie was a kitty.  Nate and I thought she looked like a skunk.  A lot of people guessed she was a bear.  It just now occurred to me, as I am sitting here typing, that we should have painted a nose and whiskers on her.  Oops.  That might have helped.  Sorry fourth child.  Arie absolutely refused to wear the hat, which Velcro-ed under her chin.  Each time we tried, she screamed and pulled until we took it off.  The only reason we got a picture of it on her (and we didn't even attempt to Velcro it) is because we distracted her with the Kit Kat we had previously taken away.

 Here they are checking to see what they got.  I didn't let them dump everything out because it was bedtime.  It got adequately sorted the next day.  I had to laugh at Natalie's sorting.  She had a pile of suckers, chocolate, gum, etc... and Reese's.  I informed her that Reese's are chocolate.  She replied with "yeah, I know."  It's not that she had that many of them that they needed their own pile.  I'm sure it's because she thinks they are just that good--they get their own category.  I can agree with that.

While we were at the trunk-or-treat, Arie reached into her bucket, found a Kit Kat, bit through the wrapper, and started eating it.  I took it away because I didn't want the mess all over the costume.  This goes without saying, but... she was mad.  We let her have it when we got home.  She thoroughly enjoyed it.

 Last night, on Halloween, I took the kids trick-or-treating on our street.  They always get at least as much candy on just our street as they do at the trunk-or-treat.  We had a lot of fun going around to our neighbors.  And I think we now have a year's supply of candy... which will probably be gone in about a week.  :)  Happy Halloween!  Now on to Thanksgiving!