We went to 3 Halloween parties in the last 3 days. The first one was Jack's preschool party. He decided he didn't want to wear his vampire costume (since he never liked in the first place. I guess we shouldn't buy costumes online unless we're sure he'll like it. It was huge though so it should still fit for the next several years for both the boys.) I created a new costume for him and I thought it turned out cute and he liked it too.
Baseball player Jackson.
Cute Kenzie in her Halloween shirt. She slept through the party so she never dressed up.
The baseball star.
Jordan looking cute. He didn't sleep through the party (since he refuses naps a lot these days) but we tried to have him sleep, so he's not in his costume yet.
What photo shoot would be complete without silly faces?
Jordan in his pirate costume. He's saying/singing "a pirate, a pirate, a pirate says arrrrr" (it's from The Backyardagains (a cartoon.)
The kids and Miss Ashlee doing boom-chica-boom. Don't you love Ashlee's costume?
Jackson was such a good brother during the party. He was helping Jordan know where to sit and what to do. It was pretty darn cute. And I was happy to see he didn't ditch Jordan for his friends.
They did 4 activities and I helped with frosting cookies activity. The boys were in the same group. Jack was pretty cute when there were coming in. I asked the other boy in their group where he wanted to sit and he told me then Jack was like "I'm sitting by my brother."
Jackson's class.
Our next party was a little community party. There weren't a lot of people there, but we did have fun and talked to some of our neighbors. The boys loved sitting at a little picnic table and eating cheetos. A little girl wanted to sit down by Jordan so I had him scoot over so she could sit, but he just go up instead and sat by Jack. He didn't want to be sitting by someone he didn't know.
Kenzie was a monkey, instead of a hula girl, since it was so cold out.
Jackson decided he wanted to be Superman instead of a baseball player. I think this is what he really wanted to be in the first place. He's striking his Superman pose.
Jordan was the baseball player since he peed on his vampire costume and I hadn't watched it yet. Doesn't he look huge in this picture? He does have several layers on.
Superman, Monkey, Baseball player. It's very hard to get a picture of all of them looking at me. I took 4 pictures and each of the first 3 a different child was looking at the others. In the last one Keznie was getting up. They were all looking though.
Jackson digging through the hay looking for candy. He spent a lot of time doing this.
Jordan looking through the hay for candy. He didn't last as long. I almost lost Kenzie when I took this picture. I took just a few seconds to take it and looked where Kenzie had been and she was gone. She had ran several feet away and a man who had thought she was really cute was trying to get her turn around.
By the smoke machine. They (maybe just Jordan though) were afraid of it at first.
Jack doing the ring toss.
Jordan doing the ring toss. He tried to just walk up to the cones to put the rings on.
There was a costume contest. They had to stand in line for kind of a long time. Jordan tried to walk out of it a couple times, but Jack would put his hand in front of Jordan and hold him back while telling him he had to stay. They stayed there even after the contest was over until I told them they could be done.
I just like this picture of Jordan. He had to hold his head up so he could see out from under his hat.
Mackenzie trying to run away. I spent much of the activity chasing her around.
The next party we went to was the ward Halloween party. We combine with one of the other wards from the building and we had a lot of fun. I recently became the ward activity chairman so I was in charge of the activity for my ward. The old chairman had planned everything with the other ward so I just had to get the stuff we needed and help set up and make sure there was enough hot chocolate and help clean up. I was really glad we were combined with the other ward. The activity chairman for their ward was a pro and knew everything that needed to be done. My parents came while were trunk or treating. We were excited to see them. Jackson was happy to have grandpa hold him heavy bucket.
We had a parade before the trunk-or-treating. The boys are in the line by Buzz Lightyear. When the parade started Jordan was backwards and didn't notice the line moving so he didn't move and Jack kept telling him to walk. Jordan started walking backwards and Jack said "don't walk backwards."
Jackson and Jordan in the parade.
Trunk-or-treating. This may have been one of the trunks that sent Jordan running in fear. They loved trunk-or-treating. Jordan told me his favorite part about the night was getting the candy (not eating it, which I'm sure he loved too.)
Ready to go
Right as I took this picture some trick or treaters knocked on our door. That's why Jackson and Jordan were looking at each other. They loved giving candy to kids who came. And since we gave all our candy away last night at the trunk or treat we were just giving some of the candy from last night. The boys happily gave theirs away. I was a little worried that they'd be mad.
Trick or treating. We tried to have the boys be polite by always saying thank you and happy Halloween after they were given candy while actually looking at the people. They were pretty cute when they did it.
Jackson enjoying his lollipop.
Jordan eating his peanut butter cup. I knew he'd love these because he loves peanut butter. I think it's his favorite food.
Kenzie wore this dress to church and we realized it kind of looked like a Halloween costume, but it wasn't. We got it in Ensenada when Doug and I went on our cruise in May and today was the first time she wore it. It's already falling apart though. You can see one of the big holes in it.
