Halloween 2010

Friday night was our ward's Trunk or Treat night at the church. Hot dogs, baked beans, pie - and our favorite...to be with friends and have a good time. They had a lot of games set up for the kids and adults. Pie eating contest, lucky duck pond, bean bag toss and a cake walk. Aubrey won a big jar of candy corn because she was the closest to guessing how many were inside the jar and she also won another award...(see below).

{The kids and I eating dinner}

{Aubrey (a singer), Jocelyn (Minnie Mouse) and Andrew (a cowboy) - both Jocelyn & Andrew won an Old McDonald award for both being dressed as Livestock.}

{Andrew & Jocelyn with their friend Ryan}

{Jocelyn with one of her bestest friends (Leah) from church & preschool.}

{Aubrey and her cupcake award for winning the cake walk.}

{My cute little cowboy!}

{Andrew at the farm!}

 {A mural my friend at church painted for the Halloween Harvest. She's so talented and it turned out awesome!}

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We also spent an evening out with our friends and walked around their neighborhood...

It doesn't show it here in this photo, but Andrew is completely scared of his friend's Scream costume - hence him sitting as close to his sisters as possible!

{Jocelyn and her friend, Superman! :)}

Me and my boy...he's so independent too. Didn't want anything to do with the stroller until the end and refused to let me help him hold his pumpkin when it was starting to feel heavy. Haha! I have a feeling he caught on pretty fast that there was yummy treats inside and he was "protecting" them. :)

Besides his hat falling off in the wind, he was quite the happy camper. Just held tight to his pumpkin as it swung and hit his leg at each step.

We came across this one particular house in a cul-de-sac that scared the kids to pieces. Jocelyn and Andrew and their friend refused to go up to the scary witches and Aubrey and her friend attempted to get Halloween candy from them but they turned around and ran back instead. Some people take Halloween just a little too far!

This photo was taken right after Aubrey stopped to help Andrew get his vest back on. While she squatted down to help him, he swung his trick or treat pumpkin at her pretty hard as if saying "Beat it lady...I'm on an important mission here!" He cracks me up!

On our way back to the house, Jocelyn informed me that she was done and said, "Mom, I don't need anymore candy - here's my basket." It was funny to hear her say that but it's true...our kids aren't big sugary treat eaters!

We all had a fun night as friends though and that's what counts! Now time to pack up those costumes, chuck (I mean hide) the candy and have a fun 364 days until the next Halloween rolls around. I sure do love the Fall time, but Halloween is definitely one of my least favorite holidays. But it's all worth it to see how much fun they have! :)

Oh, and one more picture. This is Jocelyn dressed up on Friday at her Preschool standing next to her teacher:

Happy Halloween!

Our 3 Goblins

Halloween came by chance this year for our little goblins. We had already participated in our ward's Truck Or Treat Halloween Party last week but we still had intentions of taking them out on actual Halloween as well. Until Halloween rolled around and Aubrey wanted a different costume at 6pm! Daddy stepped in and drove this goblin to a few stores returning home with a bat? skeleton? It looked pretty good whatever it was and considering it was last grabs, it was the most modest of them all. Let's just say we'll be more prepared and planned next time around. I might just even MAKE their costumes. Well they still HAD to have dinner. There was no way I was going to release them out into the intermittent rain with empty tummies sucking down gobs of candy instead so we didn't leave the house until 7:30 pm. Holy smokes it was late! And at this point, no one had stopped at our door to trick or treat so a bowl of 3 bags of candy sat waiting and waiting for nothing. This candy is definitely finding it's way to John's work! I'm not sure if it was due to the rain that no one came by or that a lot of people just aren't participating in the holiday this year? The mall was having an event, so that could have been why. So we hopped in the truck and drove to our friend's neighborhood and partook in their festivities. The kids had fun showing off their costumes and stayed warm by the bon-fire. We noticed more activity in their neighborhood so we decided to take a stroll with the kids around the block so they could go to a few lit up doors. They had so much fun! Jocelyn was easily entertained towards the end of the night that she was head over heals in love with a huge puddle of mucky water. Jumping and splashing EVERYWHERE! Her once cream tights were now a dark shade of black. I surprised myself and didn't even care. They were having fun and that's all that mattered as long as they were safe. I took one look at them once we got home and knew stain remover wouldn't do a THING for them! So in the garbage they went! We won't go into her once brand new white shoes though. They need serious help! Here are some pictures of our fun evening:

{The goblins before we left the house}

{Bat/skeleton}

{Tinkerbell}

{A Baby. He's a good baby too, don't you think?}

{Scary faces!}

{One of the houses they went Trick or Treating at}

{The Schindlers awesome Halloween decorations. Jocelyn wasn't sure about the skeleton laying at her feet...}

{The girls with some cute little friends of the Schindlers}

{Aubrey next to their scary bat}

{Awesome job the Schindlers did on their pumpkins!}

{Trying to stay warm}

{My sweet little goblins partying it up in the rain}

{Andrew getting sleepy...}

{The goblins with our family friend: Sabine (sometimes also known as their adopted grandma)}