Halloween

Scott's boss has recently quit and Scott is doing his job and his own job right now, so he's very busy and often working long hours.  Halloween week ended up being very busy for him.  He had to stay late working on Tuesday when we were planning to carve pumpkins but we did our best without him.    The older kids can do a lot on their own now.

They already had their designs planned out.  So I only really had to carve for John and Emma.

Emma wanted to just put sparkly stickers on hers so that was easy.  John had two pumpkins - one from our pumpkin patch trip and one from a school pumpkin patch trip.  So I ended up carving both of them for him.

Grant working hard on his pumpkin

John and Emma showing off some of the pumpkins

We're getting ready for Halloween

On Halloween day the kids were able to dress up for school.  A lot of places we've lived they no longer allow dressing up on Halloween at school.  At Matthew's school they have a tradition for the 6th graders of doing Halloween at the Pyramids.  They are going to be studying Egyptian history but haven't started yet, so  it seemed a little weird.  Matthew dressed up as Khufu, the Pharaoh who commissioned the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Here's his Great Pyramid model

This costume was brought to you by a black pillowcase and some gold duct tape.

Both John and Grant wanted to be Batman

Here's John

And all three of the little guys

Emma was Elsa from Frozen

Anna was a zombie

John and Grant's school had a costume parade and parent's were invited!!  John's kindergarten class was one of the first classes in the parade.  Hooray John!!

And a little later came Grant with his 2nd grade class

Matthew and Anna's school had a parade but parent's weren't invited.  I heard they had fun though.

For dinner we had Jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's

Scott got home just in time to trick or treat and had to duck out of a work dinner to do it.  It seems like Scott often has work events that interfere with Halloween night.  I guess trick-or-treating isn't on everyone's radar.  :)

So we quickly dressed Scott up as Olaf to go with Elsa

Matthew and Anna were scary zombies (the pharaoh costume was just for school)

Our two Batmans or Batmen?

And we got our zombies to take a picture of us Frozen characters.

Emma has wanted to be Elsa for a long time and I told her Scott and I would dress up like Frozen characters too.  I was Princess Anna and Scott was the snowman, Olaf.

Trick or treating a long.  Our neighborhood was great for trick or treating!  I think we got less candy than last year just because the houses are a lot farther apart than our California neighborhood so we covered fewer house before we got tired.  Matthew and Anna went up the street together - they really wanted to go sans parents this year.  The Batman boys and Elsa came with Scott and I.   Emma/Elsa got tired after going up our street and then down the other side.  In her defense, one trip around our block is just over a mile - I've clocked it several times - its a really long street.  But I had to carry her home the last few houses while John and Grant finished up.

We helped give out some candy

Here's Scary Elsa!!

"Elsa No!!"

The other kids came home soon after that with tons of Halloween loot.  Lots of full size candy bars and cool toys.  Several houses in our neighborhood were handing out hot chocolate - one house had chili and baked potatoes.  It was very nice.  We watched the Great Pumpkin while the kids counted and sorted candy and then called it a night.  Scott might have even had to go in the office and do more work after that.  No rest for the trick or treaters.

Happy Halloween everyone!!!