Let the Halloween Festivities Begin

It is sort of weird how much time and effort go into Halloween.  I'm guilty of it, but there is just something so FUN about Halloween that it makes you want to celebrate.  Sometimes it just good to enjoy life.  So here we go on an marathon of Halloween festivities---one after the other, after the other, after the other, after the other...

This year, I pulled out the Halloween decorations from the basement, but pretty much had little time or motivation for decorating.  Thankfully, Paige was happy to take on this task.  She put up garland on the stairs, hung up some ghosts, and helped with the door sign.

Then we were pleasantly surprised to find out we got "Boo'd."  The night after roadshows we came home to find a bucket of Halloween treats on our doorstep.  The girls were thrilled and very excited to put together our own buckets to deliver to some of our neighbors.  We put the ingredients for caramel apples and a few Halloween games and light sticks in our buckets and the girls delivered them to two unsuspecting neighbors.



Getting ready to deliver "Boo" buckets



For me this was the best part of the evening.  My girls have never gone up to someone's door, rung the bell and run.  It was pretty hilarious listening to them plan out how they were going to do it, followed with their chatter about not getting caught.  I'm pretty sure this was the best part for them too.

On the way to make the deliveries



Another activity, was painting mini pumpkins for FHE.  I have to admit that this year, we just didn't get around to carving pumpkins.  We had the pumpkins but not really the time.  Honestly, I don't feel too bad about it, because 1) Paige carved a pumpkin earlier at a friend's house, 2)pumpkin carving usually ends up being more of a parent project than a kid project and 3)neither of the girls seemed to mind skipping this.



Next up is the elementary school Halloween party.  This year I am the head room mother for Paige's class, so I helped to organize the Halloween party for her class. 

Paige had big beautiful bride dress.  It is Giselle's dress from the Disney movie "Enchanted"

Paige at the elementary costume parade



After the parade, it was party time.  We started with a scratch-off pumpkin craft and then prepared our snack.  Katie W. gave me the idea and it was a hit.  I brought in some apple peeler/corers and the kids used them to peel and cut their own apples.  We served them with caramel apple dip.  The kids thought it was pretty fun.  After snack we played three games---toss the spider on the web, ghost relays, and mummy says.  I was in charge of "mummy says" aka "simon says" and I had the kids flapping around like bats, screeching like cats, and walking like Frankenstein.  Paige has such a good class and a wonderful teacher, it was easy and really fun to be at the party.

2nd grade