Trick-or-Treating

On Halloween, our first stop was trick-or-treating at grandpa's work.

P3 enjoyed munching on some crackers from grandma.

I was falsely informed that my brother was working at the library, so we stopped by to see him. He wasn't there though.

We went trick-or-treating at The Square (better known as Colonial Square). As soon as we got there, P2 had to go potty. So we had to go find a restroom and take off her costume, then put it back on. The joys of little children! We mostly did this one for P3 since he wouldn't go out for very long at night. He loved getting all the candy! He would even try to eat the candy through the wrapper if I wouldn't open it for him. I enjoyed the yummy free donuts from Parsons.

Since we were close by, we stopped by to see my sister.

 

 

  

At 6 pm, we went to a few houses and stopped at the neighborhood party for hamburgers and hotdogs. Then we took P3 home, and the big kids and I met up with our friends at 6:45. The big kids lasted until about 8 pm. It was freezing cold though! I couldn't feel my toes by the end of it. P2 was really upset because she lost a cheap bracelet at some point. She wanted to go re-trace all of our steps in the freezing dark, and I wouldn't let her.

 

The beautiful sunset when we dropped off P3:

The kids came home with soooo much candy. We let them pick out 10 things for their personal bags, and then the rest was for sharing. PE will take some to work to help get rid of it. We had 4 gallon ziplock bags full of candy!

Carving Pumpkins

We went outside to pick which pumpkins we wanted to carve. P3 found a new friend and I had to share the story with my siblings who were truly terrified by it.

Halloween Horror Story:

P3 made a new friend and was holding it in his fingers. He showed it to me and wanted to bring it inside. I couldn't tell what kind of bug it was. I made him put it down, and then it slowly unfolded into a spider!!!  Ahhhhh! We watched it limp away and I had to stop P3 from picking it up again.

We were going to carve pumpkins Tuesday night, but PE worked late and I didn't want to tackle it on my own. Wednesday night we had our ward trunk-or-treat at 6 pm. I asked my family if they wanted to come carve pumpkins with us at 4 pm. My parents and sister came over to help. My mom was a saint and even brought dinner. And then stayed and cleaned up after we left for the Trunk-or-Treat. PE met us at the Trunk-or-Treat.

P1 got really into carving his pumpkin. He carved a lizard and an alligator that he drew all by himself.

 

P3 was excited to carve pumpkins until we actually started carving them. And then he wouldn't touch them. So I carved one for him.

I was running low on creative juices, so I carved "Happy Halloween" in the long pumpkin we had.

 

P1's alligator and P3's cute jack-o-lantern.

P2's pumpkin:

Another side of P1's pumpkin. He carved 3 different things on his pumpkin.

P1's lizard:

My dad's pumpkin had a goofy side and a scary side:

Costumes

P3 loved his Buzz Lightyear costume! He was constantly wearing it. P2 was Jasmine this year, and P1 was Spider-man. I picked out Buzz and Jasmine, but I had no idea what P1 wanted to be. When I asked him, I was very surprised by his answer. He has never really been into superheroes, but I guess that is what they play at school sometimes.

 

 

Hogle Zoo Birthday

Instead of a birthday party, we told P1 we could go do something with 2 friends. He picked going to the zoo. He even made little zoo books for his friends so that they could mark all the animals they found. We went on Saturday the 26th. I thought that it would be the perfect time to go. The weather was decent, and I thought it wouldn't be very crowded. I mean, who goes to the zoo in late October?

Well, apparently everyone goes to Hogle Zoo on the last Saturday in October. Because they do trick-or-treating at the zoo that day. We got there about 1:30 pm, and the parking lot was full. And all I see everywhere are kids in costumes. It was too late to turn back, but I was not thrilled to see the zoo so busy. We had to park up by Heritage Park. I was debating whether I should let the kids join in the trick-or-treating or not. Once we got in the zoo, I saw this huge line that wrapped around the zoo for trick-or-treating. I made the decision not to wait in those lines. Instead, we went and saw the animals like we had planned on. We only had about 2 hours to be there. The animal exhibits weren't too crowded since all the other visitors were simply waiting in lines to get candy. I do believe we were the only ones there not in costume though.

The kids had a blast, and made me take pictures of them at every animal statue they could find. P1 said it was more fun than a birthday party.