Halloween 2011

Gutting the Pumpkins

Allie, the Fairy Pumpkin Princess--but on Halloween she added Zombie to the tital.

Maggie as Malificent from "Sleeping Beauty"
Cooper as Darth Maul from Star Wars I
We had our annual pumpkin carving night for Family Night on October 24th. Pumpkin guts, magic markers, newspapers, knives, and children standing on chairs are always the things to make everyone happy. Chris always has to blow a little pumpkin guts out of his nose to round off the pumpkin carving extravaganza.

Friday, October 28th, I was in charge of our ward's Halloween Dinner and Parade. We just had hot dogs and the kids walked up and down the street trick-or-treating. It had a good turn-out and we were done by 7 PM. (Oh, Cooper and Miles decided to go around twice and collected too many treats!)

Saturday, October 29th, after Maggie's soccer game, we had another trunk-or-treat. It was with her soccer club. We had Chili at this one and then the treats...at this point, too many. Allie decided she wanted to hand out the treats instead of collecting them and Cooper only went around once.

Sunday, we went to the Hislop's for dinner and Cooper decided he needed to get sick there and had a temperature of 101.3. So, we went home early.

Monday, October 31st, the girls went to school and Cooper stayed home. He was one sick little boy. His temperature would stay down only with ibuprofen. He didn't even care to go Trick-or-Treating. Chris stayed home with him and the girls and I went to the Davidson's first. Jeff, Lucy, and boys were there. Kevin, Stacy and kids were there. Denise & Roger and Kristen & Nate were there too. We had chili and hot dogs--I am all hot-dogged and chilied out! We went treating around their neighborhood.

After the Davidson's, we went to the Hislop's. Jill, Kurt and boys were there and we went around their neighborhood with AJ and Kurt. AJ just wanted to go see their houses and asked to go in. It was pretty funny.

Our final destination was our neighborhood, but by then, it was 8:30 PM and not many porch lights were on, so we called it a night at 9:00 PM. It was a good Halloween.