It’s the morning after Halloween. Every teacher on the planet is excited that it’s Saturday and the parents get to deal with all the Halloween Candy for 2 days instead of them having to confiscate it in the classroom. 🙂 Candy is laying all over our playroom floor and 3 out of the 5 of us are still sleeping.
Halloween started for us a few weeks ago with a special package from Grandma and Grandpa. Along with a cut Halloween stuffed animal, they send money for a new costume so out we went to find one. The girls all picked out the same costume in different colors. (And then Sage decided she didn’t want to match and ended up wearing one we already had. I’ll try to get an all matching picture sometime, but for now, you’ll just have to see the 2 faries (or butterlies depending on when you ask them) and a cute witch.)
We went to a Halloween party down at the clubhouse last weekend. The girls got their faces painted, decorated a bag and a cookie and saw a few friends from the neighborhood. (I love where we live!)
I was able to go into each of the girls’ classrooms for their Harvest Party. I also volunteered in two of their classrooms and went on a field trip, so I was at the school all 5 days this week.
Then on Halloween, Tom and I took them out Trick-or-Treating in the neighborhood. Our neighborhood is FULL of kids, and the girls love walking around and seeing so many friends from the bus and from school. Our neighbors are so kind as they open their door to greet the girls cheerfully. They also give away great candy, pencils, blow horns and snacks. We were out for about an hour and have enough candy to feed a small country.
It was such a nice night as a family. Tom’s been working crazy hours lately as he’s starting to wrap up his executive chef part of his job and transition to full time culinary director (yeah!!). So it was nice to walk around and get to talk to him while the girls went up to house to trick-or-treat. 🙂
Halloween Costumes
Perhaps we should have stayed out a bit longer. I don’t think we got enough candy!
Trick or Treat
4th Grade Harvest Party
Molly’s Harvest Party
Designing pumpkins
Making a pumpkin mosaic
Ashley’s Harvest Party – Halloween Bingo
Making a 3D pumpkin with Mrs. Droessler
I took the girls out of school one afternoon when it wasn’t raining to go to the pumpkin patch!
I love the expression on her face in this picture.
Molly and Ashley call this the marshmallow ride – lol. A tractor pulls these barrels around a figure out.
Sage enjoying the “marshmallow ride” too!
What does this do?
Tractor time!
Playing around in the Kid Corral
Playing in the corn. Molly never stops moving. I have so many blurry pictures of her . . .
Checking out the animals at the farm
Playing with the pump
Big sister reading “Angelina’s Halloween” to her little sisters
The finished Jack-o-lantern for the year
I had to carve the pumpkin this year, so we did a VERY easy one. Thank goodness for sharp knives.
Getting all the seeds out of the pumpkin
Decorating Halloween sugar cookies while watching a show
Halloween party down at the clubhouse
Not sure what this is, but Sage liked it!
A butterfly to match her costume
A pink butterfly to match her costume
Hot dog mummies, fruit that looked like candy corn and apple cider for a snack at the party at the clubhouse