Happy Halloween!

Check me out! Blogging Halloween the day after! Only because we ran poor Justin, who was borderline sick, into the ground apparently and he's having a slow morning recovering (slept in till 10am!) so I'm sitting on the couch with him and thought "what can I do while I sit? Blog!"  We had a great Halloween-actually the whole week leading up to it was fun. You almost don't need trick or treating with all the parties and events there are! I selected just two events for us.

 Halloween storytime at the library. The kids got to dress up, do storytime, then trick-or-treat at the 3 different desks in the library. It was fun! 

Our darling angel.

Outside the car at the library-the sun was really bright!

Then, we had the ward trunk-or-treat. It was a potluck dinner, games, and trunk or treat event. I took my cat litter cake-I love to make it at Halloween time! I think the kids got just as much candy that night as they did on actual Halloween night.  

Face-painting was included in the festivities!  First time Lindsey's had her face painted!

Holding the heavy baskets. 

Sporting the vampire teeth she won at the ward party.

Finally, Halloween day actually came! We went over to Jared's parents' house and went through their neighborhood. It was very successful. And, it was perfect weather, meaning not cool enough to chill anyone, but not muggy and warm!

I bought a bag of cobwebs that ended up not getting used, but Lindsey found them and insisted we decorate our car so we let the kids drape it over their seats in the back. Our wonderfully intelligent dog that jumped in the backseat while we were driving and got himself stuck in the cobwebs! (okay, I actually shoved him back in them for this picture b/c he climbed out before I got my camera.)

Angel and pumpkin dog. 

Pumpkin outfit was too big, so we tried witch dog. It also didn't fit right, so Maverick escaped having to be dressed up for Halloween this year!

I had to come up with something fun to use my pregnant belly this year. I decided to be a Magic 8 ball. Remember? the childhood fortune-telling toy?! I painted it on myself by doing a freezer paper stencil (for the first time). It was very easy!

The (unplanned) herd. 

His face is saying "Mommy just woke me up from the car and made me throw on this costume and walk out in the street. I'm not sure I know what's going on yet..." He woke up quickly though and enjoyed the evening!

I think it was two years ago that I learned that our little kids' legs were tired long before they were done trick or treating, so I remembered the wagon this year! Here they are riding home after collecting all their candy. 

Justin got a second wind and decided to walk home, doing various goofy walks!

Inspecting the passed-out cow in Grandma's front yard! Looks like we wore that cow out herding him around the neighborhood!

Total candy collected: Lindsey=3 lbs and Justin=2.5 lbs (he did every other house at some points because his sister was just too fast for him!) It was great fun. And, I'm very proud of my daughter-this was her first year with no shyness. She ran up to every door, said 'trick or treat' and then said 'thank you' before running to the next house! Guess we're now counting down days to Thanksgiving!!