Halloween 2014

Took me long enough to post these pictures, right? But Halloween was a fun event this year. Sadly, I had to cancel our "Zoo Boo" plans with friends due to car trouble (that is a whole new rant, but after a long weekend and a grand total of 20 hours in a mechanic's waiting room, the car is no longer making the squealing sound), but we did make it to our wards chili cook-off/trunk or treat. We also spent an evening in the elementary school parking lot jostling our way through for another trunk or treat, where we got a lot of dum dums and business cards, since businesses signed up to be the "trunks". At least we did get some balloon flowers and a chance to climb into the cab of a fire truck.

As for the ward trunk or treat, we got there on time, which means we were "early" and spent some time letting the kids run around before dinner was finally served. Then it was time to gather our pumpkin pails and go trunk to trunk. Without the overcrowding issue, I was able to take Connor out of his stroller and run wild. He quickly figured out how things work and had the time of his life.

The girls posing in the church's parking lot. Cadence was "Fancy Nancy" and Megan is doing her best Spidergirl impersonation.

Showing off her cat face paint.

A close up of Connor's costume. Everyone "awwed" over his muscled Spiderman as he strutted around.

Connor enjoyed the fruit of his labors. If anyone tried to even touch his pumpkin, he threw a major fit.

Halloween night, I was so excited to finally be in a neighborhood that actually trick or treats. This made it the girls' first real Halloween experience, because up until this year, their only trick or treating had been in the church parking lot and the zoo. Connor, who refuses to talk at home and insists on communicating with grunts, whines, and pointing (third child syndrome, I suspect), forgot himself for the evening and went up to each door to shout "tree!".

He only got to go once around the block before James took him back inside, and the girls and I explored a little further through the neighborhood.

Posing right outside our dressed-up front door.