Our family tradition is to carve pumpkins for FHE the week of Halloween. Part of the fun tradition is also having caramel apples as our FHE treat. Don't ask me how we came up with the idea that our jack-o-lanterns had to be deluxe and intricate designs instead of the good 'ol traditional spooky faces. It took us forever to carve them but the kids were all happy with the results of each of their pumpkins: Skylar-a screeching cat, Nick-Scooby Doo, Kade-a spooky spaceman, and Alexis-Blue. Our jack-o-lanterns looked great!
Kade was excited that he got to dress up & perform at both his preschool & Joy school Halloween programs. Can you guess who he is? Believe it or not, Kade was the one in charge of picking the family theme for our Halloween costumes...and he was determined to be Fred from Scooby Doo.
So we were the Mystery Inc. gang! Ben was Shaggy, I was Velma, Skylar was Daphne, Nick was Scooby Doo, Kade was Fred, & Alexis was Scrappy Doo. I have to admit that this was really fun for all of us since we're all big Scooby fans. The costumes were actually really inexpensive & easy too. Good pick Kade!! Here we all are:
The only bad thing with our costumes was that unless we were all together, some people just didn't get who we all were. Ben had this problem at work until Scooby & the rest of the gang showed up for trick-or-treating on Friday.
After trick-or-treating, my parents came to babysit while Ben & I went to see the Mortal Fools Theater production of Dracula. It was held up in the old castle near the state hospital in Provo, which was the perfect setting because it was kind of spooky. It was an awesome show-it was like a radio production and there were great sound effects and the actors were so good. We had a great night!
Since Halloween was on Sunday this year, we did the whole trick-or-treat thing on Saturday night. We started off at our ward's trunk-or-treat, which was moved indoors because of the crazy rainstorm outside. After the rain stopped we headed out to the neighborhood for the real thing. Ben's mom, sister, & her baby, Kye, joined us!
We wanted to still do something fun on Halloween so we drove up the canyon to the Homestead in Midway to see their Scarecrow Festival. The kids thought it was awesome. Ben and I were just glad that they enjoyed it and that we could enjoy the beautiful ride up the canyon.
Then as we drove down the canyon, we were amazed with the most beautiful sunset.
Of course we had to have a spooky Halloween dinner. So we had our favorite, brinner! We had delicious pumpkin chocolate chip jack-o-lantern pancakes with goblin goop (syrup) and shredded bones (powdered sugar), scrambled brains (eggs), and witches broomsticks (hash browns) with blood (ketchup). The kids loved eating their spooky meal. Yay for Halloween!
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What cute pictures! How do you get 4 small pictures to make a square like that? You all looked so cute and I think you are all great for doing a theme as a family! Those sunset pictures are gorgeous, wish I was out to see it!
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