This is Halloween

Our Halloween started off with a costume parade at Tatum's school. All of the parents are seated along a pathway through the cafeteria and all of  the kids walk through with their classes and teachers to show off their costumes. The principle started the parade as Captain America. 

I so badly wanted to get Tatum's picture with him!

Afterwards I went and spied on Tatum in his class.  I just love to see him all grown up in school...he has such a love for learning!

After school we went to see Aunt Julie at work. Every year her office does trick or treating  for the families and she is so great to invite us! 

Trey was so funny! He would just drag his candy bag behind him. Yes his bag was filled with candy and yes it was half his size, but still, it was funny! And no he is not wearing shoes...bad Mom moment, I totally forgot them! Ha ha!

Afterwards I was able to capture some pictures of the boys in their costumes. 

Tatum as Captain America...

As you can tell he had no problem getting into character. Trey on the other hand was bit more difficult.I was just happy he put the costume on :)

That night we had such a blast going trick or treating. We totally scored on candy and doughnuts and cotton candy. While I was out with the kids Eric was home handing out candy. I kept running into our neighbors who would tell me how much Eric was scaring their kids. When we were done I  went home and found Eric in this costume and our house pitch black with scary music blasting.

Of course we then had to go up and see Grandma and Grandpa Larsen.

Cheese!

And one shot of me with my boys. Last year Eric's costume won the costume contest and he got this glow stick hat. I wore it trick or treating and I had every teenager wanting to steal it from me :)

My costume this year was Flo the progressive girl. I had to put this costume together last minute and this is what I came up with. I won 2nd place for most humorous costume. Sorry its a bad pic, the only picture I had was on my phone.

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! I can't believe how fast time flies after Halloween, Thanksgiving is next week!!

Halloween Prep

The weekend before Halloween Tatum got really sick. He missed 3 days of school, had 2 doctors apts, missed our ward Halloween party and the primary program. I felt so bad for the kid that I tried so hard to make sure that he had a fun Halloween. 

Eric has been so busy with work lately that we didn't get the chance to carve pumpkins. So when Tatum got home from school I tackled the pumpkin carving on my own. Tatum wanted a scary tree for his pumpkin and drew out something similar to this.

 I attempted elmo for Trey's pumpkin and think it turned out alright.

Tatum wouldn't touch the pumpkin guts or help out in any manner, and since my boys are complete opposites, Trey couldn't get enough of the pumpkin!

The final product.

I love making cute treats for Halloween. Another day after school I made sugar cookies with the kids. I had Elan's kids over and the boys loved to decorate the cookies.

This year I made these chocolate covered oreos and planned to take them to our ward Halloween party... that we didn't go to. 

I ended up taking some to my beehive class and ate the rest ;) After all of this we were finally ready for the big day (which will be another post)!

Fall Day with Grandpa

A few Saturdays ago we planned a fun day with Grandpa. We went to the pumpkin patch and then to Gardner Village to see the witches.

[Pumpkin Point]

Hunter riding the tractor...

Kai...

Tatum...

Trey...

All the boys. I love Tatum's pose in this picture...so GQ!

Silly boys...

Trey loved picking up pumpkins and taking them to the wheel barrow. He did it over and over again.

 

Satch's pumpkin...

 

Tatum's pumpkin...

We tried to get a picture of Grandpa with the boys. None of them would look at the camera so we had to throw corn at them to get their attention.

 Good enough...

Tatum was mad that we threw corn at him.

The kids had a blast running through the corn maze.

[Gardner Village]

I love Gardner Village! Its so fun to go see the witches at Halloween but its not fun to mistakenly go on Witches Night Out! It was so packed and crowded with witches that we only stayed long enough to look around and eat some doughnuts. The kids still loved it and thats all that matters :)

Tatum looks pretty bored.

Everyone eating cotton candy.

The outhouse witch was all of our favorites.

We had so much fun with Grandpa but it wore us all out. We went home and everyone took a nap!