Shenanigans

We celebrated Halloween a lot this year, and it was so much fun!! In fact, we made a fall "to-do" list like we did for the summer, and we've already completed almost all of it! Maybe we should have been more ambitious.... Anyway, here's the rest of the Halloween celebrations!

Here's one of the pumpkins we carved at an Elder's Quorum activity. Miles thought it was so cool that we put candles inside of pumpkins. Yeah, we're pretty rad parents I guess.

Down the street from us a little strip mall (and by little I mean 3 or 4 stores) was having free Halloween festivities so we took them up on the offer! They had awesome pumpkins on display, people handing out candy and coupons everywhere, cookies and apple cider and the witch from Snow White! Both Miles and Gwen were terrified of her. Her costume was very realistic. She read some Halloween stories and gave Miles an apple, and then they were on speaking terms.


We went to our friends annual Halloween party! I don't know why I didn't get more pictures, but here's a really flattering one of Richie carving another pumpkin. :)




On the actual eve of Halloween we did our traditional meal of pumpkin brains! Yummmmm! Sloppy Joes served in a pumpkin makes for a pretty dramatic dinner. Still all Miles wanted to eat was the bun and some fun jello.



Then we got dressed in our costumes and did a tiny bit of trick-or-treating down our street to our neighbors. I think we were the only trick-or-treaters they got so they were thrilled! Then we drove over to the Christensen's so they could spoil our kids some more. :) Miles thought it was so much fun, which made is so much fun for Richie and I. He ran from house to house and repeated his lines (trick-or-treat and thank you) dutifully and with little prompting. Richie kept Gwen wrapped in his coat all night. It was chilly! Richie was in heaven with a snuggly little baby.