Our Halloween Weekend

We had such a fun Halloween this year! We were able to kind of stretch things out a bit and even got a few wears out of each of their costumes! This year Jacey decided to be a queen, Brooklyn was a black cat, and Landon went as a little tiger.

The weekend before Halloween I took the kids to a little Halloween party they were holding at a local craft store and the girls won lots of cool prizes and did some fun crafts. The day before Halloween, both Brooklyn and Jacey had their Halloween parties at school. Unfortunately, Jacey's school doesn't allow them to dress up, but Brookie was able to wear her costume to school and she had a blast trick-or-treating around her teacher's neighborhood with all of her preschool buddies! Here is a picture of Brookie with her favorite buddy Ethan (or "Ephan", as she calls him)


That night we went to a Halloween carnival at Jacey's school, where they were allowed to dress up. The kids had a lot of fun there and both Jacey and Brooklyn won cakes in the cake walk (which basically went to waste--who wants more sugar on Halloween?) The pictures I took at the carnival didn't turn out very well, but here are some before shots:

After the carnival, we dropped in at Jon's work for their Halloween party, where Landon won the prize for best costume!

The next day was Halloween. We hurried to get our pumpkins carved at the last minute (okay, actually Jon and the girls cleaned out the pumpkins, and then left me solo to do the carving.) I always dread carving the pumpkins, but it was actually kind of fun this year and I was quite pleased with the results:

Kind of a blurry picture, but from left to right is Landon's "Clown" pumpkin, Brooklyn's "Cat" pumpkin, and Jacey's "Cackling Witch" pumpkin

We rushed off to the trunk-or-treat in the afternoon, where Brooklyn was kind of onery and groggy from a nap at the beginning but finally came around in the end. Jacey had a great time being a big girl and running off on her own with her friends. Landon just hung out and looked cute for everyone:

Yes, even I dressed up!

After the trunk-or-treat we crammed dinner down the kids throats, and then the girls and I were off with some friends to trick-or-treat around the neighborhood. We were beat by the time we finally got home, but the kids had so much fun. They made a haul with their candy too, and now we have enough to last us until next Halloween! Anyone who needs a sugar fix, please stop by our house and take some away!

Oh, and did I mention that Landon looked super cute in his costume?!?