Halloween was a few weeks ago, and we are still eating the spoils of the kids' trick-or-treating. It's threatening to undermine all the hard work I've been doing at the gym...
On Thursday, a couple days before Halloween, Benjy's Joy School had a Halloween party. The moms came for the last half hour to watch the costume parade. The kids were all very cute in their costumes.
Afterward, we had a Halloween-themed potluck. There were mummies (crescent roll wrapped hot dogs), creepy smiles (apples with peanut butter and marshmallows), ghost cheese sticks, pumpkin tangerines, a veggie skeleton, and jack-o'-lantern dip (sundried tomato hummus) with crackers. A surprisingly well-balanced meal for a potluck.
On Friday, Justin had his work Halloween party. His department always does a themed costume contest where they compete with the other departments at his company. This year his department chose to dress as characters from the show Game of Thrones. They assigned Justin to be Jon Snow, who is apparently the good guy. We put together a costume using materials mostly borrowed, but also bought and found. The kids and I went for the party, and Benjy got to be an honorary part of the group.
That afternoon, Eli had his school party, which the kids and I also attended. It was a nonstop party day! Eli's class did games in the classroom next door first. They had four stations- three games and a craft. Then they went back to Eli's classroom for snacks and treats.
This year, Eli didn't have a strong opinion about what he wanted to be, so I coordinated the kids' costumes around Benjy's dragon costume. Who knows how many years I will be able to do that!
Our frighteningly cute dragon, knight in shining armor, and beautiful princess.
Saturday was Halloween. Our church had trunk-or-treat at noon that day, so the kids trunk-or-treated in the daylight. There were food tables and game tents set up outside. The weather was beautiful, so it worked out great.
The kids loved having their faces painted. They also loved taking "hay rides" around the parking lot in wagons pulled by the young men and young women.
One of our home teachers and his family.
That night, we set out before dark to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood. We started out with just us but ran into some neighbors and ended up trick-or-treating with them.
Benjy and Emmie lasted about 45 minutes and were done, so I took them home while Justin went further with Eli. He got quite a haul! Way too much candy, of course, but what would Halloween be without it?
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