Halloween Happenings

Ward Halloween Party. The girls wore their costumes, but at some point Shelby ditched her dress and refused to put it back on.

Halloween dinner! It's no secret that I LOVE doing a festive dinner on Halloween. This year we got to spend it in Arizona with my family because my childhood best friend got married the following weekend. So for dinner we made homemade nachos. Even the chips were homemade and cut out in fun Halloween shapes. Then we had fruit cups designed to look like candy corns, and for dessert we had left over Halloween cupcakes that Lacey brought from Tucker's birthday party.

Trick-or-Treating. Shasta and Shelby both went as princesses. Shasta told everyone she was Aurora, but really the girls just wore dress-ups from their dress-up bin. I've been really cheap about Halloween so far because our budget is always tight. But they still looked cute. And bonus... they wear their costumes year round.

 I love this picture of all the younger cousins (minus Shane because he wouldn't stand with the kids, and Braden because he didn't come with us since he's a newborn). What a fun memory.

And of course the first house on the list is Grammy's and Papa's. They give out full size candy bars every year, but of course my kids picked the suckers. Which they typically did at every house that had them. At least now I know for next year to do some pre-Halloween drills on how to select good candy!

The kids had it made for trick-or-treating. There were 4 adults pushing strollers that gave all seven kids a place to sit so none of them had to walk if they didn't want to. And we trick-or-treated through an entire neighborhood so there was plenty of walking. By the time we got home our kids were loaded with candy. And not the crappy candy they usually get from our poor, college student, young family neighbors. This was legit candy! The bags that Shasta and Shelby are carrying were three fourths full once they were done. And by the time we got back to Utah a week later every last piece was gone!