The Halloween Holiday

Happiness all around. This year we tried to jam all our fun Halloween activities into two days because Daddy wanted to be a part of them and harvest didn't calm down enough until Friday. So... Friday we made eyeballs and Goblin Grub. Spicy chicken fingers and spinach dip for dinner.
And then we carved our pumpkins. Kami wanted a cat, Cooper a pirate ship (naturally) and it was agreed upon by the older two that Landon most definitely wanted a spider. Brandon gutted them all and then I went to work carving "masterpieces". By the time I reached Cooper pirate ship, I handed the dirty work over to our friend Janice. I didn't buy lights so you don't get pics of them lit up...

Then Saturday we did pumpkin shaped pancakes and scrambled brains for breakfast. Jumpimg in leaves for afternoon fun. Mummies and Halloween jello jigglers for lunch.

here the kids are making their mummies for lunch.

And then trunk-or-treat, trick-or-treating, chili and visiting friends to round the nights off. We had plans to do sugar cookies as well but the clock ran out of time (silly clock)

The kids, of course, adored the trunk or treat (massive amounts of free candy...what's not to love?) And I adored the trick-or -treating. Completely nostalgic. And those little costumed kids running from door to door is the absolute cutest thing ever.I forgot to put Landon down for a nap. So poor little Landon fell asleep the second he hit the truck and slept through the entire trunk-or-treat. He is the main reason we went trick-or-treating afterwards. The big kids definitely didn't need any more candy but Landon only had an empty bag. It didn't take the boy long to figure it out though. After the first house handed him candy just for looking at them he glady trucked his way right up to every other doorstep, treat bag in hand. So adorable! Of course, once they gave him his candy, he never wanted to actually put it in his bag. I'd hold it open for him and say "Landon put your candy in here." He would just grip it tighter and look at me like "are you crazy mom?" I'm sure he ate almost as much wrapper as he did candy.
All in all it was a very enjoyable night spent with people we love (our Daddy especially, we have sure missed him) and... wait for it... we have yet to experience Halloween meltdown 2009. We'll cross our fingers and hope it doesn't happen.