Halloween Festivities

I know...super late. But I still have to get it posted. Here are a few of the Halloween activities we participated in this year.

The activities' days girls had a trick-or-treat party for the nursery kids. Preston wasn't sure what was going on, but learned quickly the meaning of trick-or-treat. He was a pro in no time!

Pumpkin carving. Marcos had a crazy week and isn't the biggest fan of Halloween anyway so we did our Halloween stuff for school the Friday before Halloween. Preston was more interested in coloring pictures than carving pumpkins and getting messy so he colored while Dylan and I did the hard work. Marissa joined us after her nap and kept trying to grab the bowl of seeds. She is going to be trouble when her mobility improves! We carved one pumpkin per kid. Preston's "face" was the one we were going to do for Marissa, but her face was too big for the little pumpkin we picked out so we switched them. I had found a squinty-eyed smile for Preston since that it pretty much how he smiles for the camera and more of a baby face for Marissa. They turned out cute anyway and Preston was excited about his when it was finished.

We went trick-or-treating at the zoo Saturday afternoon with our friends the Talbots. After the zoo, they came over to watch the Real Salt Lake game and then we headed over to the church for dinner and trunk-or-treat. The truck-or-treat got moved inside due to the rain so the kids trick-or-treated around the hall in the church. Weird, but it worked. The dinner was fun though! It was cool to actually get to talk to people a little instead of just hand out candy and rush away.

After the church party, we headed to mom's for more food (YIKES!) and to hang out with the fam. It was fun to spend the evening together and the kids were really well behaved. They played in the toy room most of the time and we were actually able to visit. My mom bought the "big boys" matching Halloween outfits. It's the first time I've ever been able to get Marcos to dress up. Hurrah mom! He wasn't exactly a "tough" looking biker though. We tried to get them to pose looking mean...it didn't work. They just aren't mean enough I guess! :)