Trick or Treat 3 bags full!

Trick or Treat, Trick or Treat 3 Bags Full!!

Creeping and rolling on the grass like a real spider!

Aunt Deva Chelsie and Cousin Kitty Ryelle

The Trick or treaters

We had a fun filled Halloween!

Friday I took Benji to school all dressed up and stopped over to check out the kindergarten class before the School Halloween parade. I was hopping I could sneak in to help with the class or just be a part of it. His teacher is so nice she let me tag along and help out with the parade. The little kindergartners were easily turned around when they were parading through the classrooms so I stood at the doors and helped guide the wondering costumed cuties.

Cookie Decorating

The Sweetest Kindergarten Teacher Cat in the Hat & Spooky Spider

Then Benji played Halloween Bingo, decorated pumpkin cookie, and a played pictionary games. We packed ourselves in the car and headed off to Dads Halloween Office Trick or Treat party.

Here there was a major hold up as the office guys told him to take as many and what ever he liked...the choices the choices...

Note Benji is well aware that Mom and Dad are terrified of spiders-Dad more then mom-So when he saw this costumes he was thrilled to be the one thing he knew both of us had a phobia of. He would not be talked out of it-though Dad tried his best!

The Fam

Unfortunately Dad was detained on our arrival with a good thing –getting closer to closing a deal- So I blindly lead Benji around the office decorated mazes a Halloween fun. Here he timidly gathered his 1^st bag of candy. We met up with Dad snuck a photo and raced to the ward Trunk or Treat. Here we froze for 1 hour with friends outside while Benji got his 2^nd bag of candy.

The Freeze yourself out Trunk or Treat. Nana the tiger, Aunt Mahkalie the beautiful, Charitie the Cutest nerd, Kristen the Devil, Me the witch, Aunt Chelsie with Kitty Ryelle, Dracula AJ, Spooky Spider Benji, and Pumpkin Nelly(yes we dressed our dog). note she loved it no complaints! Really!

The next day Halloween we recouped (Mom was under the weather with a sinus and ear infection for the last 2 days) Then buoyed up, costumed up and hit the neighborhood (with great friends neighbors) about 5:30 pm 3^rd bag of candy. Benji was so excited by now there were no timid. No he was running up the house steps and rolling down the lawn to the next house. (Pictures at the top of the blog.)He was really acting out the “roll” of a spider and spent much of the time creeping and rolling on the grass. Then we headed on up to the cousins for the annual chili Halloween gathering. Phweey I am exhausted and Benji is still bouncing off the walls.

A master in the making

We let Benji have the knife this year! He was one determined designer. He was very secretive and serious about his design too. We were not allowed to see it until he was finished. No exceptions. Well done Benji you created one scary pumpkin! Note we went to 3 stores to try to pick up some more pumpkins with no luck. So I was very glad we had bought these 2 earlier at the pumpkin patch. This has been the least amount of pumpkins ever carved by our family.

I snuck a few pics of the action.

Pumpkin Land Field Trip

I was so excited to be able to attend my first kindergarten field trip as a parent! We went to Pumpkin Land. The kids sang a song about farmer Grant (so stinking cute), we road on a school bus -a first for Benji- (memory lane for me) and went through a corn maze, (check that off Benji's fall must do list) played at pumpkin play land giant pumpkin slide, a spooky house, and the each got to choose their own pumpkin to take home. And YES benji was the absolute last to choose his pumpkin worthy to set out on our porch. That boy has always loved pumpkins he is so funny. He took so long finding the perfect pumpkin, and so we were the last on the bus for the ride home.

I had a great group they are such cute boys!

Still looking....

Park Halloween Party

Not too often are you able to rewarded with gorgeous Autumn weather for Halloween but we were this year. I called a few friends and they called a few friends and walla we had a Halloween Park Party. I was so glad to get the kids & my mom friends together from our old neighborhood and enjoy each others company & costumes. The leaves were beautiful, although we couldn't get the kids to slow down long enough for a good picture in the leaves. It was play, play, play...they were not even that interested in all the yummy Halloween treats. That is when you can really tell the kids are having a blast together, when play is more enticing then sugar.

This was a cool shot because it showed the sun shinning off of Bens costume... Night in Shinning Armor

I love this shot because it shows the pure joy in action as the kids raced around the slide.

Fairy Ryelle in the autumn leaves.

Sammy & Benji were checking out there matching gold belts.

Autumn activities

These were really fun, cute and easy treats we made for the Halloween park party we had with friends from our old neighborhood. Nutter Butter cookies dipped in white chocolate or almond bark, with chocolate chip eyes, we used Minni chips-not pictured here.

Sir Benjamin

2 weeks before Halloween, I decided I needed a project. Previously Benji had thought he would like to be a dragon...again. He has been an alligator & or dragon the last 2 years. Hoping to explore our options a bit more we browsed the pattern catalog at the fabric store. He landed a step up from dragon to dragon Slayer. So Sir Benjamin was knighted for Halloween. and he promptly declared I would be his Princess and Dad another Knight, & Ryelle the princess fairy. Note last year, I was a princes and Dan was a knight, while Benji & Nelly were dragons. Apparently this really left an impression on Benji and he was eager to recreate the memory.The picture below shows Benji stunned to see Dad in his work costume. Benji was so shaken he refused to let Dan come near him for a good 10 minutes. His office has themed costumes and Dans team was the only scary section of the whole office, the mad doctors. It was slightly traumatic.

The night before Halloween Benji woke us with the horrid barking seal cough. Dang it!!! I thought why do kids get sick right before a major celebration. I still remember when I was 5 years old and caught the flue the night before Halloween. What a serious bummer to not be able to go out in your costume on Halloween night!!! And we had just spent the previous day with a lot of friends from our old neighborhood...I was dreading we had unknowingly passed it on while together at the park party...Sorry Guys...

So at 2 am checked on line & read all the info I could on croup. The good thing was cold air actually aids in clearing the airways of the croup attacks. So trick or treating was in. Dan was insistent Benji would be at his work party and Benji was too for that matter. His Pre-school party was out also that day, but I was able to pick up a bag full of tricks-prizes his teacher so nicely put together for him. I was determined to let him participate in what ever would be possible so as long as he didnt have a fever and felt ok we went for it. Is that terrible? I think I was trying to make up for that one time I missed Trick or Treating. But I am always nervous of sharing illness so when it came time for the dinner party at the cousins we had to stay home because he had another Fever and was seriously tired out from Dads work party/trick or treating and the 3 blocks trick or treating in our neighborhood. We were bummed to miss out on the family gathering-next time, but all in all it was a fun filled Halloween Day.