Halloween Fun

Halloween this year was a lot of things: spooky, messy, funny, silly, sad and crazy. For the sake of my blog-journal I must start out by mentioning the D&C I had to have on the 30th. Miscarriage number 5 for me. It was sad and frustrating and emotional to say the least. Rod took over the pumpkin carving while I recovered. It was warm enough to carve them outside on the back deck. Owen didn't want to carve his and just colored it.

However, after the surgery I felt better than I had in weeks and was ready for all the Halloween fun! The day started with getting Anna dressed up for school. She looked adorable in a Tinkerbell costume made by her talented Aunt Sundee. We made sure to put some pixie dust and a little bit of mascara (that she begged for) on her face.

We then hurried to get the boys ready for their preschool programs at Kid's Village. I was wondering what Tani would choose to dress up as. He had already worn a few different combinations for other parties. He decided on a cowboy for school and Owen was an elephant.

Owen really wasn't too happy about the idea of singing with his class. It is pretty cute how he covers up his shyness with attitude.

He hid behind a pillar for a while. It was all just too much!Finally, he started to come around and smiled a bit.Tanielu had no problem being right in the center. He sang loudly every word. Very cute. Grandma B. brought over a big pot of homemade chili for dinner and I made some yummy cornbread to go with it. Grandad and JoAnn, Grandma and Grandpa Bergeson, Aunt Zoie and Uncle Jefferson, Hyrum and Emilee all came to eat and go trick-or-treating with us. Tani changed his costume again and came up with his idea of a pirate. He was happy with the end result. This group was definitely ready to go!

We lost Tani for a little while. Luckily Nonna witch found him for us! She was very in character and scared the kids a bit with her threats to take their candy. I am not sure she was entirely joking! William quickly got the hang of holding out his bucket and saying "trick-or-treat" in his own little way. What a cute litte monkey! Seeing him in this costume (also made by Aunt Sundee) brought back memories of my other kids. They have all worn it for Halloween.Towards the end of the night Tani decided it was pretty fun to hand out candy too and took over the bowl from Grandpa at the door. It was so warm out that we just left the door open and waited for trick-or-treaters to come. Anna even wore flip flops and no coats over the costumes this year!When everything had finally calmed down the kids had fun counting and sorting their candy. I can't believe the things they got. Several full size candy bars each and lots of chocolate! We got mostly hard candy when I was little. Overall, I think Halloween turned out to be a lot of fun!