a very blue, gooey, and yee-haw halloween
One of the most anticipated holidays (can I call it that) is finally here. The girls got to celebrate Halloween many ways this year. They each had their class parties in school on Wednesday and came home with lots of stories and treats. Then that evening their school had a “Halloween Hoopla” with lots of games, treats, and activities including a scavenger hunt. The girls also got Thursday and Friday off from school (fun for me and more about that later). And last night our church had its annual Trunk-or-Treat event. There was a chili cook-off, a half keg of root beer (via Mike), costume contests, glow bracelets, and trunk-or-treating with lots of candy. Tonight there will be trick-or-treating in our neighborhood, so you can see we’ve been busy reveling in Halloween celebrations.
This year I was little more motivated about choosing and planning for costumes. I remember it was the beginning of September, and we were sitting around a bonfire eating s’mores and discussing upcoming events. Halloween was mentioned, and Annie blurted out that she thought it would be funny to dress up as a s’more. Why, Annie, that’s actually a good idea! Mimi’s required a little more thought since she was convinced that she wanted to be a princess (again). A few days later while scouring online Halloween costume shops for little girl costumes, I saw some adorable cowgirls. I asked Mimi if she’d like to be a cowgirl, and she agreed immediately that she would like that. I’m pretty sure everyone who visits this site has already seen Violet’s costume, too, so my hopes of surprising everyone with my little Smurfette are dashed.
The night before the Halloween Hoopla we got costumes all ready to go. Annie needed to paint her chocolate bar. Mimi felt left out, so we let her paint her own chocolate bar.
Looks good enough to eat!
Howdy, pardner!
Violet is having a very smurfy day. My little Smurfette actually loved wearing her hat. If it fell off, then she’d pick it up and give it to me to put back on her head.
Searching for Smurfberries. Found one!
Smurfette is smurfed out by the end of the night.
I didn’t get any pictures from Trunk-or-Treat because I was busy helping to run the show, but the girls had a blast and left with full tummies and bags full of candy. Tonight will be trick-or-treating. I think the girls are most excited about that because they haven’t gotten to do traditional, door-to-door trick-or-treating since we’ve lived here. We also have half of a half-keg of root beer to finish off (Mike’s keg of root beer was a big hit at the Trunk-or-Treat), so the Johnsons are coming over to help us with that, too, along with dinner and trick-or-treating.
HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!!