Sometime before Halloween, we were shopping and saw some spooky decorations. The kids commented that, "Mom doesn't like Halloween." They are a little bit correct. I don't like the gore and evil stuff. I bought a life-sized skeleton for the stairs. His eyes creeped me out a little bit, so I put some shades on him.
Andrew is there with me. We went to the Halloween store and he stayed in the car. He said, "Some people just take Halloween too far."
I let the kids have a party. We made root beer.
and slime...
and decorated cupcakes.
Our neighborhood had a trunk-or-treat because, you know, there wasn't going to be enough candy collected on Halloween night.
The Sunday before, while on our hike, we collected sticks (thanks Julie) that would become wands. I am the room mom for Christian's class and I decided on a Harry Potter party theme.
The kids helped a little with pocket knives.
Mike got out the saw and Dremmel.
I finished them up with sand paper. Then I stained them and sprayed them with poly.
I told Mike that we should go into business.
We made 30, but I only got a picture of the ones we kept.
I made a sorting hat. (Thanks Amanda.)
Mike had a busy day at work, but drove for a half hour to get to the kids school parade. He walked in just as the girls walked by. He wanted them to see him see them. 10 minutes at the parade and an hour drive round-trip. He's a good dad.
Christian was Harry for the school parade and party.
Jessi helped make the kids Harry glasses.
The girls are off track, so they went with me to Andrew's class party. The kids did a spook alley. Andrew was the head on the platter.
I checked the boys out early and we did our annual trip to Mike's work. We then had a visit with Grandma and Grandpa.
We had to get Bev home because she had a trick-or-treating date set up with her friends.
The weather was great, so they were all out from about 6 until 8:30.
Christian made the change from Harry to a ninja (with a lightening bolt scar on his head.)
Jessi was a genie.
Bev and her friends were triplets.
Sorting and trading the loot.
We grew 24 pumpkins this year. We didn't carve any of them.
Jessi wore these vampire teeth until they cut her gums.
I am Halloweened out.
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