Halloween '13

   I'm a little delayed on this but I wanted to post some pictures from our Halloween adventures this year. We did a lot of things this year like carving and painting pumpkins, making a Haunted ginger bread house, "Truck"-or-Treating at a near by high school, Trick or Treating in our neighborhood with friends and family. Time tends to fly by really fast when you have kids so I have to really make the time to accomplish holiday tasks. Realistically, it's not even for the kids. Every holiday I share with them is so special and important to me! I enjoy the time with them so much and the joy that it brings them is wonderful to me. So here's a little picture show from our Halloween holiday together!

 

Gabe called this his "Scary Halloween House". Some friends of ours brought it over and worked on it with Gabe. Ashley is 17 and one of Gabe's favorite people in the world. They worked on it together and Gabe had a blast doing it!

 

These are our pumpkins from this year. The Cinderella one is mine. The Angry Bird is Gabe's. The clown that is throwing up is James'. The little one with the stars as eyes is the one we craved for Sophia. And the one on the bottom stair is my brother's that Gabe and our neighbor's daughter, Lola, painted and then Gabe for some reason continuously stabbed with a  pumpkin pick.

 

Sophia's Cinderella costume.

 

Gabe wore 3 different costumes this year. He was Thor in this picture. This was a picture from "Truck"-or- Treating at a local high school. They had the high school students at the trunks of their cars passing out candy. They also had some of the classrooms with different Halloween activities. The room in this picture was carnival games with little prizes for the kids. They also had a haunted "house" room, a room that was playing Monsters University, and the cafeteria had pizza and stuff you could buy. It was a really great experience for the kids!

 

These are the cookies I made for Gabe's class party. I cheated and used the pre-made cookies from the store. Yet somehow, as usual, I ran out of time and still had to stay up until 1:00AM making them.

 

This was Sophia the morning of Gabe's school parade. She was not thrilled with her snow suit we put her in but it was FREEZING that morning.

 

Gabe was Lightening McQueen for his school parade. The super hero costumes both had inappropriate "weapons" that he would have wanted to bring so we used a costume from 2 years ago. 

 

This was this years costume. He was Hulk and he loved every second of it!

 

This is Gabe, talking to Grandma with his dad behind him.

 

Gabe LOVED this cat. After I took the picture he told me "Yay, now it's a memory!"

 

Gabe was Hulk, Lola (one of the 4 daughters of our neighbors) was La-La-Loopsy, Camila (my friend's daughter) was also Cinderalla, and Ryan (one of the other girls from our neighbors) was a rock star!

 

The pumpkins all lit up.... Cinderella didn't make it to Halloween...

 

There are our neighbors pumpkins!

 

This was my brother, our friend Nate, and our neighbor, Wayne giving out candy from our porch on Halloween night!

    Overall, Halloween was a great success and a fantastic memory! We had a lot of our friends with us (some of which are unfortunately not pictured here), we love our neighbors (who are also great friends) and their children and we had a fantastic night with them! It was certainly a Halloween to remember!