Happy Halloweeny!

Things were pretty eventful around here for Halloween!

The festivities started on Wednesday and everything has been a blur since then!!

Our ward (church) had a Fall Festival. Kids trick-or-treated at different doors around the building, there were lots of fun games, a chili cook-off and bake-off, and of course a contest for best costume.

Asher: a pirate. Andyn: a gorilla.

Ainsley: a spider. Aspen: a snow skier.

Geoff and I went as a disco couple!

You may not notice but if you look closely in the first 2 photos our fros are curly and full. But, in the last one they are a little matted and flat! They accidentally made it into the dryer! Oops. This is particularly sad for us because Geoff and I bought those wigs our first Halloween together and have used them for various events throughout the years. They'll never be the same!

So, at this particular ward event I was in charge of the mummy wrapping game. Here is Aspen getting wrapped up by her sisters:

Here are a couple of other costumes that caught my eye: Then there was this big huge coloring page. Chrissy's girls were dressed up as the cutest little lady bugs you've ever seen!! The little one (Zella) and Andyn have become best buds and they spent most of the evening coloring on this page!

So, all this took place before it was even Halloween! Friday night we took our kids trick-or-treating just around the neighborhood where we live. This was one of the guys in our complex:

I thought he did a great job on his costume! Asher really liked it! I think we went a little too early. We wanted to get home by dark but when you trick or treat during daylight hours it's hard to know who's giving out candy. No porch lights on! I tried to strike a deal with the kids.... I would give them each a bag of their favorite candy next year for Halloween if we didn't have to go trick or treating again!!! I'm not sure if they went for it. We'll have to bring it up again next year! After the trick or treating fiasco, I took Asher, Ainsley, and Aspen downtown to this really cool little place where they have a feris wheel and carousel and were giving out free rides to kids in costumes. I paid $2 and rode the feris wheel with Aspen and then all three of them rode the carousel. We got sno cones and then headed back home.

Asher and Ainsley on the carousel and Aspen up high on the feris wheel.

I took this to show how high up we were. Now that I look at it I'm thinking how very little was holding us up!

Last but not least: last night Chrissy and Mike had us over for a little Halloween get together. It was a lot of fun! They made homemade root beer and white chili. There were nachos, little smokies, mummy pizzas, vanilla popcorn, cupcakes, cake balls.... lots of fun stuff to eat and do. We played games and the kids made "Haunted" gingerbread houses. With all of the fun going on you'd think that I would have taken a ton of pictures. Nope. I was so tired and just enjoying the entertainment! Geoff however did snap this picture of me:

Happy Halloween!!!