Halloween

What a fun Halloween weekend! Let's start with last Thursday...

We took Levi down to meet his great-grandpa, who then told our kids stories from his Halloween days as a young boy. Apparently they never dressed up or got candy, but they did tip over their neighbors' outhouses for fun.

The boys all had their Halloween parties at school on Friday, and I went to Dallin's costume parade and party. I also made cookies for Spencer's party and popcorn for Tyler's.

The whole school sits outside in a huge circle, cheering, clapping and high-fiving all the kindergartners as they march around in their costumes. Then we went back to their classroom to eat pizza and decorate cookies - Brennan joined right in. I enjoyed visiting with the other moms and watching Dallin show off his new baby to everyone.
Oh, how Brennan adores his baby brother!

After school we decorated pumpkins. Dave cleaned out 2 of the pumpkins before the boys got home, which helped to move things along. Then Spencer and Tyler cleaned out the 3rd one together.
Spencer got the idea from Family Fun of using mini pumpkins for the eyes. It turned out really cute.We got the pattern for Tyler's pumpkin from the back of a cereal box. Dave got it started, but then Tyler did most of it.

We roasted the pumpkin seeds using a recipe Dave found on Allrecipes - it had sugar and pumpkin pie spices. Yum!

Tyler, Spencer and Dallin.

Don't they look great? I thought Tyler's looked especially cool all lit up.

Levi as a pea pod. He looks calm here, but he was pretty fussy all night - throughout the church party, every time we got in the car, and then while trick-or-treating. I ended up taking him home and missing pretty much the whole night. I guess he doesn't like Halloween yet.

Brennan has been telling everyone all month that he was going to be a pumpkin for Halloween. But just as we were about to put on his costume, he changed his mind. No big deal, since I didn't buy either one this year. It's nice having a huge bin of costumes to choose from. Dallin as a "ghost chef." I'm not sure how those 2 things go together, but he was sure excited about it.

Tyler as Harry Potter.

Spencer as a zombie. I wasn't thrilled with the idea, but at least there wasn't any blood. Doesn't he look scary? He loved it.

Saturday was a pretty low key day. I made pumpkin pancakes for breakfast, which were delicious. It's a good thing we started getting costumes ready nice and early, because it ended up taking awhile. First we went to the church Halloween party for dinner and games; we left early to go trick-or-treating around our neighborhood. Then I met back up with them at our next-door-neighbors' Halloween party. When we got home we watched Ghostbusters, handed out candy to late-comers, traded candy and drank hot apple cider.