Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Hannah Montana, the Dead Bride, and Percy Jackson!

This Halloween season got rolling for us at an adult game night with couples from our church. The house we went to was completely decked out in everything Halloween from a dead guy who jumps up from his coffin, to a spooky talking butler, to count Dracula. It was a ton of fun until we got the text from Jaco saying La-La had thrown up all over our friend's couch. (We had shared a baby-sitter and all the kids were at their house, not ours!) Thank goodness the party was pretty much over!

Justin and I dressed up as a BP oil worker and the oil spill. The party was dimly lit and since I was in all black, people did not know what to say to me. They couldn't figure out who I was and then with just the whites of my eyes showing, it was a little eerie. I had fun and was just happy that Justin agreed to dress up!

One of the nearby cities did trick-or-treating Friday the 29th. It was from 3-5 and included all the downtown merchants. It was fun and nice to do it in daylight hours and the weather was perfect!

Jaco had wanted to be Harry Potter but I was not on the ball to find him a robe in time so HP was out. He has been re-reading the Percy Jackson series so I suggested dressing up as Percy and Jaco loved the idea! I hand painted the shirt, made a lightning bolt with duct tape and cardboard, painted an old sword gold, and glued some feathers to some old converse tennies and BAM...Percy Jackson came to life!

La-La decided really early on that she wanted to be a dead bride. I found fun material at Jo-Anns for the veil and we recycled a white dress that was getting a little too used, tore it and made it dirty and we had a perfect wedding dress! Add some black and white make-up with a wig from last year and La-La became the prettiest dead bride I have ever seen!

Little Care Bear chose to be Hannah Montana. We already had a Hannah dress but then this sparkly dress was found and she just *HAD* to have it. I agreed that it was perfect so with the sparkles, some much loved make-up, and an itchy wig, Care Bear magically turned into Hannah! She even won cutest costume at her school!

After trick-or-treating we came home and carved pumpkins. I helped the girls with their pumpkins but I was very proud of Jaco because this was the first year he took full responsibility and did his 100% by himself!
Look closely at this picture and you will see mama cat walking on the roof above us! We had no clue she was there until we looked at the picture on the computer!

Spooky glowing creations!

Saturday night was the ward trunk or treat. It was supposed to be out in the parking lot but since we live in the great northwest, it was raining! The party was moved indoors and I did feel a little weird with my dug up graveyard directly in front of a portrait of the Savior.

The girls had fun making sucker ghosties and coloring pictures. Care Bear decided to take a break from her itchy wig and went as a cute monkey.

Jaco throwing bean bags at a large pumpkin face

Justin did not feel like going as the BP gang so I went all out as a witch. So many people had no clue who I was until either Justin talked to me or the kids called me mom. I handed out the candy from our room and some of the kids would not take candy from me. I wasn't even saying anything! One little girl was obsessed with my nose, it was so cute! I used tole paint on my face and neck so I was able to match it to the rubber nose. To get the nose to stay on, I filled it with modeling clay and it was sticky enough to hold my honker in place!

Finally on Sunday the real Halloween was here! Poor Jaco and Care Bear woke up Saturday night throwing up so trick-or-treating was questionable. Thankfully they both perked up just in time to pound the pavement since we had not received enough candy from the previous 2 nights!

I decided it would not be fair to have our fun Halloween dinner on Sunday with two sickies, so we waited and extended the holiday one more day to Monday night! Pumpkin brains, bones, severed toes, graveyard dirt and blood to drink! When I told Care Bear the menu before I made it, she told me there was no way we could really have it because stores do not sell severed toes, blood, and brains! Guess I got her!

Hope everyone had a fun and sweet Halloween! I know we did especially with it lasting several days!