Halloween Festivities 2011

Halloween came and went. I'm not a huge fan, but we had some fun. It all started with the much anticipated FHE of carving the pumpkins. The boys each had a pumpkin that they were in charge of. And of course Dad and Mom do a lot of the work.

Tagg was excited to get the "guts" out.

Gutting away.

Darin was proud of his...Jared did all the carving, but Darin loved it!

Jared and I went to an adult Halloween party that was awesome. We reluctantly pulled together some costumes within a half hour and came up with Popeye, Olive Oil and Swee' Pea. Lydia sealed the deal. We actually won best couple's costume!

Miss Lydia was a princess during the day of Halloween...because she could be!

After deciding on Woody for Tagg he changed is mind last second to Thomas. Done.

Darin has been on a Batman kick and we borrowed this costume from some people at school, that we were so careful with until Rees bounded through the room and stepped on the mask shattering it...that was my moment of hating Halloween. We taped it up the best we could for Darin, apologized to the people we borrowed it from and had to buy a whole new costume to get a new mask...Rees footing the bill.

Luke was Jengo Fett and borrowed this costume as well.

Rees was a nerd and created his own costume.

The Boys

The boys and princess Lydia

Lydia transformed into a ladybug for the night festivities. Much warmer.

The crew again

We lit the pumpkins and headed off to trunk or treat at the church and then did some trick or treating around the neighborhood. Jared missed most of it as usually since he was at work. Maybe that's why I hate it too...I'm always dealing with the chaos by myself.

Then they went through their loot. Tagg's was gone within 2 days!! It was a good Halloween and the costumes were less stressful since we borrowed most all of them.