Halloween 2012

Halloween has come and gone for another year. Honestly, after three parties, ward trunk or treat, class parities, parades, and trick or treating we are DONE. I'm glad to put it all away until next year.

My mom gave us this fun jello mold, and it was amazing. We had a lot of fun with it.

The Church family put on a "Fear Factor" Halloween party. The picture above is Micah gargling zombie juice. They had to gargle it and spit it all back out into another cup before the other teams. It turned out to be pure kale juice. Yuck! She had so many fun activities that each family took turns participating in. My favorite one was she had three pumpkins hallowed out sitting on the table. On the count of three the kids lifted off the lid thinking they had to just dig in for 10 pumpkin seeds, but when the lid came off it was full of crickets. They had to sift through the crickets for the seeds. It was hilarious to watch their surprised faces. Ha! Ha! Ha!

My cute Twister,

our sweet Tinker Bell,

and a bag full of Jelly Bellies. 

We stole this idea from Pinterest, but Abbie made the whole thing herself with nutrition facts and all. At Micah's work party she tied for first place in the costume contest. Micah and I won third place with our plug and outlet costumes. I can't believe Micah talked me into wearing that costume again. I'm hoping to score us a new couples costume when all the costumes go on clearance for next years parties.

Micah helped Aliza carve this cat face with bloody eyes. (Yes, totally all Aliza's idea)

And Avery and I worked on this freckled faced lady with long stringy hair.

Abbie missed out on the pumpkin carving this year because she was on a field trip with the school for three days. She missed out on trick or treating too, but she didn't mind because she was in Catalina Island doing all sorts of great activities. She got home at 9:30 Halloween night. Totally odd timing for a school field trip, but she had a good time.

This was the only quick shot of Avery I got during the school parade. She was so distracted talking with her friends that she didn't even notice me.

I was able to plan Aliza's class party which was a lot of fun. We played Halloween Bingo, made a yummy witches hat to eat, made a spider web craft, ate lots of yummy food, and played this fun game Aliza and I made off of Pinterest. The eyes, nose, teeth, and mouth were magnets so they could mix and match the parts as they would roll the dice. The first one to make a whole pumpkin with all its parts would win. It turned out great. This was the first year that Micah and I both walked around together with the kids to trick or treat. I have always felt guilty not being home to hand out candy, but it was much more fun to walk around together. We met up with the Lewis family that live by us, and we had a great time. We left a bowl of candy with a sign that said "please take one." Knowing that kids would take more than one was just a given, but we did it anyway. Micah even scared a group of teenagers that of course took a big handful. It was hilarious. We really didn't have a lot of kids out trick or treating this year in our neighborhood, so it turned out fine. We were home and able to hand out the rest of the candy before the night was over. We picked up Abbie from the bus at 9:30, and then crashed. It was a great year. Can't wait to see what the kids pick to dress up as for next year.