In the last few days before Halloween we crammed in a bunch of fun activities...
Pumpkin Carving
Maura was determined to actually carve a pumpkin this year...
last year we ended up spray painting and applying sticker faces to our pumpkin since daddy was away until the day before Halloween.
She picked the design and helped apply it,
but I did the actual carving.
Thankfully, she cleaned out all the "guts",
I really really don't like that part!
Her finished pumpkins...
she was so proud!
School Halloween Parades
Maura and Audra go to different elementary schools and both schools always have the Halloween parade on the same day :(
I usually make it to Maura's, since I'm worried Audra will be distracted if she sees me there.
Whenever I'm at a school event for Maura, she is always connected at the hip to her BFF!
So almost all of her "school pics" include Tori :)
Audra's aide sent me this picture of her,
ready for the parade...
{haha...YES, Audra and Maura's friend have the same costume!!}
Little Girls Halloween Party
I had a "little kid" Halloween party just about every year since Riley was a baby.
I thought we were done after last year....
but Maura insisted she wanted a party,
so we threw one together last minute.
Luckily I have a bin full of Halloween party "things" in the basement,
so we used leftover stuff from multiple previous years parties.
I thought we were done after last year....
but Maura insisted she wanted a party,
so we threw one together last minute.
Luckily I have a bin full of Halloween party "things" in the basement,
so we used leftover stuff from multiple previous years parties.
We had snacks, decorated mini pumpkins,
made spooky necklaces, played Halloween Bingo, and pinned the face on the jack-o-lantern.
My girlies...
Cousins Whitney and Charlotte
Cousins Teagan and Tatum
The whole party crew...
Halloween Day
The girls dressed all festive for school today
Trick or Treating
The girls were Shopkins this year...
Maura = "Delish Donut"
Audra = "Poppy Corn"
We went trick-or-treating in the same neighborhood we went to last year....
since our lonely little street isn't any fun for trick-or-treaters.
This particular neighborhood REALLY gets into the Halloween spirit!
Most of the homeowners set up in their driveway with candy and so much more...
there were fire pits, music, movie screens, and FOOD:
The best houses had hotdogs on a rolling warmer,
fresh popped popcorn,
soft pretzels
and beverages!
We ended the night at the "haunted house". They had pop-up tents set up across their front yard and each tent was a "spooky room". The kids worked their way thorough the maze of tents and came out smiling :)
We went trick-or-treating in the same neighborhood we went to last year....
since our lonely little street isn't any fun for trick-or-treaters.
This particular neighborhood REALLY gets into the Halloween spirit!
Most of the homeowners set up in their driveway with candy and so much more...
there were fire pits, music, movie screens, and FOOD:
The best houses had hotdogs on a rolling warmer,
fresh popped popcorn,
soft pretzels
and beverages!
We ended the night at the "haunted house". They had pop-up tents set up across their front yard and each tent was a "spooky room". The kids worked their way thorough the maze of tents and came out smiling :)
Sorting and counting their loot...
Trick-or-treating sure is tiring !!
