Will got to wear his costume to school on Friday. his school doesn't celebrate Halloween, but they do have a festival called Arizona Day. The little kids (preschool, pre-K, and I think kindergarten) get to wear their costumes, trick or treat to the various classrooms (the school goes up to eighth grade), and then have a carnival put on by the fifth graders. the PTA sponsors lunch for all the kids, so he also got to stay for lunch with his friends, which he was so excited about!
Saturday was our church's annual Trunk or Treat event. We signed up to decorate the trunk of our car this year. I spent most of the morning getting all the decorations ready--including making an awesome curtain type thing out of four colors of crepe paper to hide the inside of our car--only to arrive to set up and find out there were massive wind gusts, so my curtain wouldn't stay in place. Our car was definitely the lamest there, but I don't think any of the kids cared--they just wanted candy (and some adults, too, but that's a huge pet peeve of mine, so i won't go down that road). The boys had fun going from car to car and playing the games, and they both liked handing out candy. Silly Miles would go get candy from his own bucket and put into other people's as they came by our car. They said at church Sunday morning that there were roughly 1500 kids that came through!! Amazing, especially since that was double the number they esitmated.
Will in his Mario costume, waiting for Trunk or Treat to start:
Dragon Miles (or Yoshi as Will was calling him):
The past two years we've gone to my friend Laura's for Halloween, but last year it got to be too many people. We split it up into two groups this year and had one group at my house. It was our friends the Bowmans and Syntaxes and their kids, plus my mom and grandma. Jen and I made pizzas for dinner that were a huge hit, then the kiddos went trick or treating. It was Will and his best friend Connor, Miles, and his buddy Michael. They all had so much fun running from house to house, although both my kids kept spilling their candy buckets somehow. It was fun--and it's nice to live in a neighborhood where we feel we don't have to be armed to take our kids out on Halloween!
It's nearly impossible to get a good picture of four excited boys.
2 comments:
Pics turned out great! I love the one of the four of them. Can you send me some of Halloween and soccer? I am a neglectful mother and didn't take ANY pics of either event. Thank goodness you are ready with the camera (also, I am convinced your photos are always better than mine anyway). :)
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