Halloween

Halloween seemed to be a week long event at our house this year! Here's the recap...

It started with Addie's preschool party on Thursday. I was ambitions this year and made her a Tinker Bell costume, it was easy and I think it turned out pretty cute! I was able to help at the preschool party, the only problem was this is all the pictures I took. Not sure where my brain was!

Friday night we had a Bunko Halloween Party! Linzee went ALL out! It was so fun and everyone dressed up cute! Great Night!

Sunday Night we had planned a big pumpkin carve at Grandpa Dennis' house. Bradi had even planned a big spook alley in the basement and lots of fun games! Plans changed quickly when Grandpa Landon died earlier in the day, we did continue on with pumpkin carving because the kids were so excited about it. I was in a fog, these are the only pictures I took. I didn't even take a picture of their finished pumpkins. It just didn't seem to matter anymore what their pumpkin looked like. Your perspective changes when a close family member dies suddenly. You realize it doesn't matter what the pumpkin look like, all that matters is that we were spending time together.

The school parade was the first time the boys got to get into their costumes. They were excited!  I loved their costumes this year! There is just something totally funny about boys dressing up in cheerleading uniforms. Gavin was having a really hard day on Halloween. I told him if anything could cheer him up it was seeing the boys as cheerleaders! He came to the parade and got his mind off losing his Grandpa for just a minute. How can you not smile seeing those wigs and pink cheeks! :)

I had signed up to help during Landon's class party. Thank goodness Malea lives next door and helped me with the girls. She is a saint! I had the kids make Banana Ghosts. They turned out really cute and the kids loved making and eating them!

It was finally time for Trick or Treating! This kids were stoked!

Grandma Gai even got into Halloween this year! She was a pregnant old lady... Carlee cried the first time she saw her! Ha! Addie's first stop was to Malea's. She was a little nervous to Trick or Treat, but she got the hang of it real fast. Who doesn't love taking candy from people?!

Landon met his friends and I never saw him again all night. He had a blast and so did the rest of us, considering our heavy hearts. All in all Halloween was great.