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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Pumkin Bust...

Does anyone else have a hard time with Sunday Halloweens??  It really makes life awkward!!  We figured we would make Saturday a total candy fest...

We started at our Ward Trunk-or-Treat...well, it was two wards in fact...which made it difficult to eat.  When we arrived the entire gym was packed, and there wasn't even room for the homemade chili I slaved over...(oh well, more for us).  After waiting almost 20 minutes in hopes that someone would finish and stand up, we went into the hall to wait where we could sit down.  It wasn't looking so good, so we decided to take our chili home and eat it real quick, and go back for the Trunk-or-Treating.  We got there 20 minutes before it was supposed to end, and there were cars piling out of the parking lot...our kids were crushed...!!

On the way though, we had spotted a huge Halloween Party put on by D.A.R.E., which was free, so we thought we'd take them there...They had a lot of fun carnival-like activities...only...you had to stand in line for 30 MINUTES for EACH activity.  After an hour and a half, our poor kids only had six pieces of candy in their buckets, and that was only because the Mayor was handing some out in the enormously long unorganized lines...it COULD have been an awesome activity...they set it up ALL WRONG though...maybe next year they'll ask me??

SO, we decide to take them Trick-or-Treating.  After driving the neighborhoods not seeing ONE kid on the prowl, we called it a night...

Talk about a series of unfortunate events...maybe we should have dressed up as Lemmeny Snickets...hmmm...fabulous idea....

All the way home, I had the kids yell "Trick-or-Treat!!" and I just threw candy into the back seat for them.  It wasn't exactly what they had in mind, but hey...they FINALLY got some candy...!!

We ended up going Trick-or-Treating on Sunday.  It is a GREAT family activity anyhow!!!  We go to my dad's neighborhood...we LOVE it there...!!  The whole neighborhood just really gets into the Halloween spirit!!!  It ended up being the BEST night ever!!!  We all had so much fun...AND...their buckets were FULL...!!!
Our family...the "Party Poopers"(we forgot our party hats), Pirates of the Caribbean: Davey Jones, Jack Sparrow, and Elizabeth Swan, a monkey, and and Owl...


I made the Owl!!  And even though I had NO idea what I was doing...I love it!!!

9 comments :

Kristina P. said...

Haha! You guys are geniuses!!

Alli Blue said...

I JUST DIED AND WENT TO HEAVENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! Oh oh ohohohoh! LOVE IT!

Missy said...

These costumes are GREAT!!!
Too Funny!

A.Lee said...

How sad about Saturday, but yay for candy on Sunday! I love all the costumes, and you did a splendid job on the cute little owl. Of course, her cute face makes it even better.

Grand Pooba said...

oh. my. god.

You guys are hilarious!!! Seriously, I busted up when I saw your costumes. I like you guys :)

The Yearsley's said...

What a disappointing Saturday! Ours was pretty similar...only we were there for the Trunk-or-Treat. We shoulda gone trick or treating on Sunday too! Oh well. Oh and Romy's Owl costume is the cutest thing EVER!!! You did an awesome job on it! And of course your "party pooper" costumes were frickin' AWESOME!!!

Heather@WHMB said...

You all look so awesome! And I LOVE the owl, so adorable.

The Cole Family said...

Wow! you guys are talented with pumkins. Romy is soooooooo cute!

Miss said...

AWH! I love the owl!! Great job! And, I would NEVER dress up like poop! You guys are sooooooooo funny!