Halloween 2012!

We had another great Halloween!  AMAZING weather....seriously, we've been totally spoiled the last couple of years!  The kids enjoyed another year of trunk-or-treat at our church and then the older ones (minus Regan) went with our neighbors to a few more houses while Regan & DJ stayed home to pass out candy.  I took the twins around to hit a few more houses.  They were pretty funny this year...they kept asking me, "just one more house, ok mom?"  They could see their bags getting fuller and fuller and weren't about to stop.  I had a raging headache by 7:30 so we hurried home to gather the other kids up and headed to Bonaventure where my sweet Grandma Johnson lives. She continued the tradition of opening up her door with her funny Halloween glasses on and my kids cracked up as usual!  They showed off their costumes and she treated them with candy bars!  I say it all the time, but how many children are lucky enough to see their great grandma on a regular basis! 

 

Jordyn the Gypsy,Kaleb the bear hunter, and Morgan, the Happy Camper!  Kaleb is in the stage of hating pictures of himself.  He hates his teeth (or lack there of) so he is less than thrilled in this picture.  He just lost his 2nd top front tooth yesterday--actually, I pulled it out at church right outside of the YW room with an audience:)  Not planned but the thing just had to come out right then!

Porter the Zoo Keeper and Kami as Dora the Explorer--the wig is pretty hideous but she can make anything look adorable!

The trick-or-treating crew minus Morgan-  She ended up having an indoor soccer game (on Halloween--what's up with that?)  Anyway, she cracked me up with her costume creativity!  She's never been much for traditional costumes and loves to come up with something funny on her own. This year she decided to be a happy camper!  She made herself a big smiley face necklace out of paper and yarn and dressed herself up in lots of camping gear and a bandana on her head!  I love how she thinks! Her friend couldn't think of anything to be so we came up with the idea of a Jolly Rancher (smiley face around the neck and cowboy gear!)  They had it all planned out and then her friend got injured in the soccer

OH my heavens! Is she not the cutest?!!!!!!!!!

Grandma's trying to figure out what Morgan is!

                                                     The kiddos with Grandma! 

I think I look pretty good in a mustache!:):)

Every year my mom puts together a Halloween package for the kids that generally consists of all the paper/plastic goods for a big Halloween dinner--this year she did tons of adorable paper plates, plastic cups, fun straws, utensils, decorations for the window, & oreo cookies.  Sooo much fun!!  If it weren't for her motivation, the fun dinner probably wouldn't happen! I pretty much stick with the same Halloween menu- mummy dogs, bone and finger breadsticks dipped in blood, red drink with grape eyeballs floating, vegi tray and ghosty cookies! 

Morgan insisted on taking pictures of the food so there you have it!