A Little Bit From Halloween

Emma and Matthew REALLY got into Halloween this year. It's not one of my favorite holidays, but it was fun to see them excited about it. Our Halloween decorations consisted of their school art projects and a few pumpkins scattered around....maybe next year we'll do better.  :)  

The Saturday before Halloween we carved our pumpkin. Emma chose the design. She actually filled several pages of a notebook with different design options. It was really cute. After the pumpkin was carved, Jon put a jar of dry ice in it, which the kids thought was super cool.

Saturday night we went to our church Halloween party. There were lots of fun games, friends, and of course candy.

It's becoming tradition for our kids to have 2 different costumes each year. So for the church party Emma was a bumble bee

Matthew was our little doctor

and Ellie was a tired little pumpkin

 On Halloween, Jon went to work, but the power went out in the morning, so he got to take the rest of the day off. Luckily, he got home right when Emma's class Halloween party was starting, so he was able to take Matthew and Ellie while I helped with the party. 

That night we went trick or treating in our neighborhood with some friends.

SO excited to go get treats!

Costume #2- the spider witch

 

 

The cutest little chicken

Our trick-or-treaters

These pictures were too cute not to post. These two are fascinated with each other.

 An hour's worth of loot! They both LOVED trick-or-treating. After he got his candy at each house, Matthew would run back to us and yell, "I need more treats!". Emma could have gone all night, but Matthew was so tired he didn't even go to the last few houses. It was a fun Halloween!