Halloween 2009

This post will have lots of pictures. Our Halloween celebrations went over 3 days!!! So instead of 3 separate scary posts - I have them all together.

I will start off with the pumpkins. We actually carved them at about 6 pm on Halloween night. Better late than never, right?

The Witch - by Victoria

The Scary Faced Pumpkin- by Christianna

It all started on Oct. 24th. Laycee, our cute neighbor, had a special kids Halloween Party at her house. We were watching the boys while Heather & Aaron were at the Utah game. So we have here, a Renaissance Princess, 2 awesome ninjas & Laura Ingall's.

On Thursday, Oct. 29th we had our Ward Trunk or Treat. Guess what! Chris went this year as a.........COP! Shocker, right? The kids really like the flashing lights & police stuff. Actually, the lights were on as I was taking the picture, but it snapped it at the precise moment when they flashed off.
Here are the girls together: Christianna, Laycee & Victoria. You may have noticed that Christianna is in a different costume. Well, we had found out from Heather that a little costume shop up the road had princess costumes on sale. I was thinking "Awesome, cheap dress-ups!" and Christianna thought, "Awesome, I can be an actual Disney Princess for Halloween!"
Hence, the wardrobe change.

The next day we had the school Halloween parade & parties.

Here is Christianna with her cute friend Abby. They take all the kids and march them through the entire school. It is always fun to see what the teachers are going to do.

This here is Mr. Olsen, Victoria's 4th grade teacher.
Funny guy!

Victoria really wanted to go as Laura Ingall's. She loves to watch that show. I think it is because Laura has lots of freckles, just like my cute Victoria.

Victoria & Laycee - the vampire girl.
Laycee's posing was making me giggle a little. She took her part seriously.

Man, she does fit that princess-y part, doesn't she?

This year, Chris & I volunteered to help out with Christianna's class party. We had 3 stations: story time, mummy wrapping & a Halloween version of duck, duck goose. I was in charge of the mummies. They had so much fun wrapping each other with toilet paper.

Thanks Heather for that great idea!!

The last thing we did was make Halloween wind socks...pumpkins, ghosts & witches. They turned out super cute & the kids had a great time.

After a fun morning of games & treats, they sat on the carpet and sang songs until it was time to leave. They sang my favorite song from Kindergarten...the spider song.

Later that day, we invited the Lyman clan to go with us down to the Police Station for some Trick or Treating.

They had police cars, the SWAT truck, the bomb squad robot, a K-9 team, firetruck, motors and the Mobile Command Center outside to check out. The boys were loving that.

Victoria spent a few minutes making Moe feel all loved. He is the coolest bloodhound ever! His handler even gave Victoria biscuit to run away with. He started his howling and then after he was released, he ran right to her for the treat.

You can't pass up a chance to sit on a real police motor cycle...at least if you're a kid.

Victoria & Laycee

John & Christianna

Brett & Spencer
(Spencer, Brett's friend, really got into it!)

Gage

To me, it is looking like he is just too cool for this bike. Either that, or he was born to ride!

He cracked me up!

Tanner - a ball of sunshine wrapped up in cuteness.

He had a major piece of candy stuffed in his face.

On the top floor, swords a blazing, we got a picture with the Police Chief. He was laughing at John since he was swinging his little bag in front of his face...the picture taking was...let's say: difficult & funny. The picture I took after this one, the chief is hugging John so he couldn't swing his bag! It was funny.

Then, later that night....

Heather had invited us to have dinner with them. Sweet - since I had nothing planned. Once dinner was done, we visited & then later went to a fun Haunted House. It was actually built in our friend's yard for trick or treaters. Since we were in the ward, we got a sneak peek of it the night before. The kids loved it!

Finally, to top off our Halloween Festivities, we went Trick or Treating on our street on Sat. Oct. 31st. Brett and John were trying to avoid the camera...but sneaky me got John as he was peeking around the tree.

We had a fun time walking around the neighborhood and they got even more treats. One of our neighbors had these awesome pumpkins outside. Thought I would share.

And there you have it - our fun filled Halloween Madness!!