Halloween Fun

I am so behind! I am actually just now writing this on November 29! I could try and lie and set the date back to October 31 and pretend like I was really on top of things, but I won't even do that. So just realize the details may be a little foggy.

So let's see! Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year which just made me feel really bad for all the teachers who had to deal with the kids mid-week on sugar highs. Basically we had a lot of things that typically happen right around Halloween happen a bit earlier this year. The Burton elementary school carnival was more of a "Fall" carnival this year, happening like October 12th which was so weird to me. I wasn't ready at all and I just wore a tshirt with a pumpkin and a cat on it.

Avery had her costume that I just grabbed at Walmart. She was a "Num Nom", which is this weird little toy marketed by China that probably costs them like 2 cents to make and they sell it to stupid Americans (like me) for like $5 each. They are like these little scented toys that look like food/cute little bear things. So anyways, she wanted to be that! It was a cute dress though with this like light blue and pink tulle skirt.

The boys were kind of torn about what to be. Caleb had mentioned being a werewolf and we had ordered him the Kids XL size from Amazon but when it arrived it was waaaay too small! Then an adult one was like $60 and I said, "Sorry Caleb but that's just not happening." (Mean mom.) So then he was good with just being a "zombie football player" and he wore his football uniform and I did some zombie face paint for him.

Gabe was kind of torn too because he's in seventh grade and couldn't decide if it was cool to dress up or not. He had said all along that he wasn't going to wear a costume to school on Halloween. Then the night before I think he felt a little sad and so I had mentioned, "well you could always wear your soccer uniform and then I could paint your face like Caleb's and you could be a zombie soccer player." The next morning he was like, "I want to do that." So we quick pulled that together! The only problem was, the school sent home an email saying, "face paint can only cover half the face and student MUST be recognizable" so therefore it was basically just his eyes and forehead that we painted! lol

I also did help out at Avery;s class party this year. I worked from 11-1:00 at the school (like usual) and then I went straight over to her classroom. I was in charge of a Halloween craft so we did these little paintings where they could use their hand to either make a witch or a skeleton hand.

Later that day, for trick-or-treating, we had Gabe do a costume switch because he had been planning this little prank for the trick-or-treaters. I had shown him this video on YouTube of someone dresses up and sitting on the porch like a scarecrow and how he scared everyone as they reached for candy. Gabe thought that was sooo hilarious so we had made this scarecrow decoration and put it up like three weeks ago just to really psyche people out, thinking it was just our normal decor. I had ordered this pumpkin full-head mask thing that was on the scarecrow too. So on Halloween night, Gabe pulled all the leaf stuffing out of the pants and put them and the shirt on and the pumpkin head and sat there with the bowl of candy just resting on his lap. Kids would walk up and I would be sitting there a couple feet away and I would gesture to my bowl like, "Go ahead and take a piece..." and then they would reach over and pumpkin Gabe would scream "Don't take my candy!" and then they would scream. lol It was funny.

Here is the decoration WITHOUT GABE inside it:

And here it is WITH GABE inside it:

So it was pretty similar! He ditched the hat because it kept falling off. So that was our Halloween evening! Caleb ran around the neighborhood with some friends and Josh took Avery around. I sat with Gabe and scared little kids. I decided at the last minute to put on this dress i had from a few years ago. I had also bought these "Day of the Dead" tattoos for my face so I kind of had the look of a Mexican Seniorita ghost lady going on. The movie "Coco" came out within the last year and a lot of people thought I looked like the lady from that. Here are some more pictures! (Yes, that was a wig I was wearing. It threw a lot of people off! Avery even walked right past me in school without knowing it was her own mom!)

We also went to a place called Treehouse Nursery for their hayride and little "storybook forest" that they do every Fall. We went there the night before Halloween and they had this huge slide that the kids had fun on. We also enjoyed their amazing scones!

Just for fun... here is a picture of my kids in the same spot in 2018 versus 2015!