Halloween festivities

Can I just say, I really...really...don't like when Halloween is on the weekend. With kids in school, they have to celebrate on Friday, then because it's really on Sunday this year we all trick-or-treat on Saturday, and before you know it, it's a 3 day event! WOW! And now, for us, it's officially over. Phew! And Phew! So our weekend went a little like this...

Friday

Noah's school parade - 9:15 a.m. [that really started at about 9:40]

Then off to his class to get some more pictures. Only to find out their party wasn't until right before lunch. So I snapped a few more of him and bagged the rest of the class.

Cutler starts school at 1:00, but he had to take treats so we tried to get there a little early. Since that miracle happened we snapped a couple pictures outside his teacher's house.

As soon as school was over we rushed over to Skywest [cause it's the best place to trick-or-treat] and scored some major candy. When we left there the kids were priviledged to have a photo session with...Gramma Sherie!!

After the photo shoot, we ran over to Doug & Janet's.

He just had surgery and needed to be cheered up.

We can usually do that.

And from there we were supposed to go to the ward Chili cookoff/Carnival.

But we decided to miss that this year.

Colby had a little pumpkin carving contest at Jimmy John's

so we went there.

And were home and in bed by 10:30.

What a day.

Saturday

We got to sleep in - thankfully - but had a lot to do.

We did a little neighborhood party this year, that turned out to be not so little. It was fun. Hopefully we'll do it again. 6 of us had a little carnival type game at our house.

Stick the mouth on the pumpkin

An intense game of Bingo

Eating a donut from a string

or not

Treasure in the sawdust

Bean Bag Toss

Fishing

And a cupcake walk. Wow, I didn't know I even took that many pictures.

After the games we all congregated up to MacIntosh's for some hot dogs.

I was very impressed with all the people that came.

It was seriously a lot of fun!

Thanks Amy & Brandy for putting it on!

Once we cleaned that all up, we started trick-or-treating for real. It was only 5:00 but we didn't care. We wanted to get an early start so we could have an early end. Is that bad?

I'm Halloween-ed out!

By 6:30 we were done and back home passing out our own candy.   

We ended the night at Colby's parents for our yummy Halloween donuts!

And now I can honestly say...

I can't wait for next year to do it all again.

Except,

 all in one day!