Halloween Festivities!

I think this has been my favorite Halloween so far! We just did lots of fun things and Mac was really into it. Also I was more into it than I usually am! We did a few things that I didn't get any pictures of. But I want to make sure that I tell about those too.

Last weekend was Mac's very best buddy J's birthday and Costume Birthday Party. J is our next door neighbor and they have seriously been best buds ever since they met. In fact when you ask Mac who his best friend is he will say J. Mac had so much fun and he was so excited for J to open the present we brought him, mostly so that Mac could play with it. They decorated cupcakes, and played stick the mouth on the skeleton. (I do have pictures, but I don't like to post pictures of other peoples kids without permission.)

Then on Monday we carved our pumpkin. This is another thing Mac has been so looking forward to. He wanted a really scary face for our pumpkin. Hubs printed off three faces and Mac of course picked the scariest one, the grim reaper (not my favorite). He was a bit confused as to why he couldn't actually carve the pumpkin, but he did have fun pulling all the guts out. The next day I made sure to buy some candles so Mac could see it lit up. He thought it was pretty cool!

Are they not just so cute! I kept forgetting to get a picture of the finished pumpkin. And right before we left town for the weekend, we decided to throw our pumpkins in the garbage so they didn't end up being road kill. So I quickly got a picture before we snuck our pumpkin into the garbage.

This was taken before the birthday party, and i hadn't done his hair yet. So he looks like a goofy superman with his messy hair and his smile. 

This year I decided to make both of Mac and Oak's costumes. This is not really my thing to do, but I when I figured out what I wanted them to be, it seemed easy enough to make them. Not only that but I pushed back the procrastinator in me and had Mac's costume done the week before the costume birthday party. I shopped around until I found the perfect blue shirt and pants. I then figured out I could use just plain red socks to use as boots and got some dress bloomers of one of Oak's bigger dresses and then my friend helped me by figuring out to use a ribbon for the belt. Pretty easy. The hardest part was the cutting out and sewing of the superman symbol on his shirt and making the cape. I made the cape reversible with batman on one side so that he can play with it more. I was pretty proud of myself for putting forth the effort for it all and I really loved the outcome of it.

Then i decided to try to make a little curl with his hair. I thought he looked pretty handsome!

Now for Oak's costume. When I was staying at the hospital when Oak was born, I had asked her birthparents what they thought she should be for Halloween. They said a crayon. I liked the idea. I don't remember if they said a color or not but it was the easiest to just do pink and find some clothes in her closet that matched the felt. I took a little longer to start this project and worked on it and finished it a few days

 before Halloween. I had an idea in my head of how I wanted it to work but wasn't quite sure how to execute it which is why I put it off. Then Tuesday night I just decided to sit down and figure it out. I was hoping for a no sew costume. But the iron on sticky backing wasn't sticking very well so the next morning I got up and got it on sewed on before we went to our next Halloween party (which I will talk about in a minute.) I really loved how it turned out, except for the hat. The hat looks fine I just wish I could have figured out how to make it bit better. Close up it looked pretty thrown together (which it kindof was).

Tuesday afternoon, My friend Brynne and her boys came over and we decorated sugar cookies. This has become a tradition of ours. We started last Christmas and then did Valentines and now Halloween. One of us makes the cookies and the other gets together the frosting and goodies to decorate with. Brynne and I usually end up decorating most of the cookies. But her oldest son who is 4.5 stuck right with it and did an awesome job. Mac on the other hand just wanted to eat the candy and lick the frosting. But it was fun and we always look forward to fun activities with Brynne, Cade and Dane.

Then the next day we went to our old Ward's playgroup for their Halloween Costume Party. It was fun to see everyone since it had been awhile. And it is always fun to see little ones dressed so cute.

We also had a fun visit with Oak's birthfamily so they could see the kids dressed up in their costumes. And they gave both kids some fun gifts. They are awesome!

Then because our Ward didn't do a Halloween Party we decided to head to my parents house and go to their Ward's Trunk or Treating. Also we decided to not trick or treat on Sunday because it being the Sabbath day and it was easy enough not to with all the fun stuff that we found to do on other days.

My cute kids!

Something about this picture that makes me happy that our family is just a little more complete!

 

We helped my parents decorate their old Ford for the party.

Mac eating his dirt and worms dessert.

My parents won the best decorated car by a landslide of course!

I brought a little flashlight for Mac to have for the party and I thought it was cool to try to get this picture.

Saturday we headed to a town not too far from where my parents live and do their downtown trick or treating which was in the afternoon. It was perfect. I loved that it was in the middle of the day and their were so many people doing the same thing. It was alot of fun. It did sprinkle a little bit, but it wasn't cold at all.

This may be a new tradition of our!

I have been trying to be better about remembering to ask someone or Hubs to take a picture with me in it.

Hubs carried Mac like this most of the time.

Right when we started trick or treating, Mac spotted this caboose that he wanted to go and see badly. We told him he had to wait until we were all done trick or treating. And sure enough we went and found it for him to look at. I think he liked this more than the actual trick or treating.

I think one of Mac's favorite things was to hand out candy to trick or treaters! He would get excited everytime the door bell rang or someone knocked and he would run to the door. He did a great job and seemed to know exactly what to do! One time a little girl came to the door dressed as a cheerleader. After he gave her some candy he closed the door and told Grandma, "That girl was cute!" My mom about dies laughing! I love that boy!

In all I it was a perfect and fun Halloween for us! My kids did not miss out by not trick or treating on Sunday, and hopefully that will be something we can teach them the next time it falls on a Sunday. And to also to be honest, I am Halloweened out! So glad it is over with!