Halloween 2015

Halloween time was busy.

Halle's swim club hosted a party in October.  They had a pool party, along with inflatables, sumo wrestling, bungee trampoline jumping, a bull-riding thingamajig, and a gyroscope (a spinning ball cage make you want to vomit thingy).  All the kids had a blast.  Halle and I especially had fun on the gyroscope. 

I totally kicked her butt in sumo wrestling.  Ok, well, no, not really.  I couldn't lift my leg high enough to kicked anything without falling over, but I still beat her.

Arden with her friend, Hailey, after they got their faces painted, and got giraffe balloons.

her eyes look so blue!

We also had a fun day one Saturday before Halloween.  It was the perfect fall day.  It was one of the first days that was cool enough to open the windows.  We bought pumpkins,sat outside on the back patio, and let the kids carve them.

we let Jack hammer metal cookie cutter into the pumpkin in order to make cut-outs.  This was a good alternative to pumpkin carving, because he's not old enough to carve.

I think it came out cute.  I carved his name.  Easy peasy.

We had two trunk-or-treats to participate in: one was through our church and every year it is a huge outreach event for the community.  There were thousands of people there at the church, and it's geared toward 5th grade children and under.  Usually it's outdoors, obviously, but that weekend had bad weather, so the church decided to host it indoors.  The kids had a great time playing games, jumping on moonwalks, and passing out candy.  Halle hung out with her girls' group and passed out candy with them.  The rest of us hung out with Brian's and my life group.  The kids dressed in their Halloween costumes: Arden was Owlette, Jack was a ninja turtle, and Halle was the Cheshire Cat.  

The other trunk-or-treat was hosted by a club that Halle is in at her school called Mustangs for Christ.  

Halle is also a part of the student council at her school and helped to decide what to wear for Red Ribbon Week.  Red Ribbon Week is the week before Halloween, so it gives the students a chance to dress up, even though technically they aren't allowed to dress up for Halloween.  Here she is on Wacky Tacky Day

even when she's trying to look tacky, she still looks cute.

Then there was more dressing up for Halle.  She dressed as the Queen of Hearts for her swim team party.  She had a swimsuit underneath her costume since it was a pool party.  When we picked her up she was dressed back in her big dress with soaking her, and with very tall high heels (she needed really tall heels with her dress because it's really long).  Aunt Sarah and Uncle Adam were in town, so we made an impromptu dinner outing to Chili's restaurant.  Poor Halle had to go into the restaurant dressed like that.  Child abuse.

this was her BEFORE the party.

Then came the night of Halloween.  The kids went trick-or-treating. We got separated from the large group of kids, so it was just Aunt Sarah, Jack, Arden, and me.  Jack was scared after only a few houses, so we took him back to Brian and Uncle Adam, who were passing out candy.  Arden didn't last much longer.  She really wanted to be with her friends.  We all went back to the house.  Our cul-de-sac is really popular and busy on Halloween, so our kids ran around and played with the other kids.  Brian blared Halloween hits from his speaker that could be heard down the street.  You could see parents dancing in the street to some of the songs like Thriller.  It was fun!

and Halle had another costume!  She and her friends got together and did the Big Bad Wolf, Red Riding Hood, and the Granny.