Trick or Treat

Every Halloween our street does a "Trunk or Treat". Typically I oppose trunk or treat because they are so boring and always take place in a boring church parking lot. This trunk or treat is different it still has that classic trick or treat feeling with two to three times the people per block. So the kids can go up and down the street and come back with a full bag of candy to share with me.

Our sweet costumes. Laura didnt want to put one on so she put on cat ears and a tail. Aiden was a star wars dude im not sure who, arent they all the same? Charly girl was a cute little Witch, she didnt want to wear her hat. I was a cowboy my bro in law Korey lent me the getup.

Laura stayed back and passed out treats to all of the Spooks.

The kids and I made the loop with hopes of returning with a monster load of candy.

Each time we trick or treated Charly girl would somehow manage to get two treats from each person. Thats the price you pay for being cute I guess.

Afterwards our ward had a party at the church and the kids played a few games.

This is me and Laura at a Halloween party the night before. What a sweet belt buckle!

CARVING PUMPKINS

After weeks of begging Aiden finally convinced us to carve pumpkins with him and Charly. So here are a few pics.

Aiden digging the guts out of his pumpkin and Charly just painting hers (its less messy)

I had Aiden draw his with a pen and I helped him carve it.

Now thats a scary Jack-O-Lantern. We ran out of candles and Laura wouldnt let me put her Sensy lamp in it so we had to use a birthday cake candle. They work fine but only last 3 minutes each.

Of course Charly had to have one as well but she wanted a Butterfly and I being an extremly artistic person (not) carved it. It took so long that everyone got bored and left.

All done! Here is my Charly girl with her sweet pumpkin. The butterfly only lasted 2 days before it wilted and turned into a blob. But it was cool while it lasted.