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Halloween 2011

Yay for holidays! Here was our Halloween experience this year.

We had a family night on "ghosts" per Jack's request. So we went to a cemetary and talked about bodies being separated from spirits at death. And the resurrection.

They liked looking at all the decorated graves.

They have a huge canon at this cemetary, so naturally Eric had to help Jack climb up it.
*No one was harmed in the making of this picture.

Carving Pumpkin Cats and Pirates

Avey called it her scaredy cat.

And Jack's pirate pumpkin complete with eye patch.

Halloween Storytime at the library! We love storytime with this awesome teacher, and had a specially fun day trick or treating around the library after this storytime.


Halloween Party!

Yummy food! Butterbeer, carrot/cucumber/brocolli pumpkin face, orange caramel popcorn, spider web 7 layer bean dip, pumpkin/cool whip/pudding dip with apples and graham crackers.

Indiana Jones visited!

Avey as Tinkerbell and her cute flower friend.

Luigi! Or as he said Squeegee!

And Princess Peach- isn't her costume amazing?!?!

Minute to Win it games- defying gravity, Steve made it look like a piece of cake, so Eric had to try and see if it was that easy.

I guess not. :)

The elephant march- this time Eric made it look so easy.

Stack the dice with Diane

And Heidi

And Paul was the champ!

The Utah Symphony's Spooky concert

The whole crew- Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Wendy, and Tinkerbell. The Peter Pan story without Peter Pan! The kids LOVED the concert. Jack was enthralled anytime the music started with the orchestra- even when there wasn't anything else visual going on. He kept talking about it for days after.

This guy was AMAZING!!! He should have won a prize for his costume, I had never seen such an authentic Captain Jack Sparrow in person before. All the pirates had to pose together.

Jack loved dressing up in his costume everyday before Halloween, so when Kristen dressed up in her pirate outfit and did a sword fight with him he was in heaven!

Trick or Treating on Halloween night! These lucky kids got to go trick or treating on my mom's street with Eric, and then with their aunts on their street. It was such a surprisingly warm Halloween day and night. In all my trick or treating years I remember it at least raining or snowing on every single Halloween. But maybe that's my old memory speaking and not reality. (Like I walked uphill both ways to school.... Go eat some character or something.)

Captain Hook and Rainbow Brite

Tinkerbell and ???!??. Avey thought Heidi in the green hair was hilarious.

Eating some of the loot while watching 15 minutes of Peter Pan before they went to bed.
Their mom really knows how to PARTY on Halloween!!!

And crashing. Halloween is tiring!

Comments

Becca said…
Cute! You're such a good little mom. :)
*Aliese* said…
Aw, I love that last photo of Jack sleeping with his sword. :)
Nikki said…
I'm so sad we missed your party, we had family stuff come up. It looks so fun! Your costumes are awesome :)

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