Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!!!  I feel like we have been celebrating this day forever!!!  With party after party, it's the day that just keeps on going.  Anyways, the kids have enjoyed all of the hoop la that goes with it.  Jaxon and Risa enjoyed a ward Halloween party, a preschool party, carving pumpkins, trick or treating and devouring candy every chance they get.  They have had a lot fun and it's been fun watching them enjoy it.

 

Jaxon at the ward Halloween party.  Risa didn't make it she was exhausted and fell asleep before it started. So we stayed home and dad and Jaxon went.

Going through a maze at the party.

 

 We were able to go to a friends house and carve pumpkins, which I have no pictures of.  But I do have pictures of the finished product.



Lighting it up with dad

Jaxon told me that it is red because it has blood ALL over it!   I don't know if I should be disturbed by this or not.

And our happier looking pumpkins that we made at the pumpkin patch



Picture of Risa with food on her mouth and not wanting to get involved in the lighting of the pumpkin.
 

 

And then Jaxon had a preschool Halloween party and this was the treat that we decided to take for him to share with his friends.  And Jaxon informed me after school that there was WAY TOO MANY CUPCKAES!

posing with his skeleton cupcakes

He had a ton of fun at school and loved the different activities that they did.  Finally after all of this it was actually Halloween!!!  So to start off our night, I made a Halloween themed dinner which consisted of mummy pizza's, bone breadsticks, fruit, salad and of course Jack O' Lantern pop.  Or as we like to call it diet orange crush:)

Mummy pizza's

bone breadsticks

Jack O' Lantern drink

and the finished product

Then we were off trick or treating.  After a few houses the kids were done, but being the great mum that I am I kept them going.  I think I now know why my dad kept us going from house to house when I was little on Halloween night, it gets addictive to see how much you can get and the kinds of candy you can get and if you can get the big chocolate bars...uh hum I digress! Anyways they had fun and they loved collecting all the candy and that's what really matters!

before trick or treating.  Thank you Laura for the kitty costume for Risa.

Jaxon blocking Risa's face, nice.

Out trick or treating



at home after all of their hard work

dumping out their loot

they were both VERY excited about this part

 The kids had a lot of fun the last few days and I don't know what they will do now that there isn't talk about Halloween anymore, I guess they will just have to wait for Christmas!  And here is one last shot of how much we enjoyed the candy this year.

Never let your 1 year old eat an entire bag of  M and M's without really monitoring them because this will happen...yum!