I will say it every time I post about Halloween. I LOVE Halloween! It is truly the funnest holiday. Although our October has definitely calmed down since moving to Georgia (I am fairly certain no state compares to Utah in the amount of Autumn activities the have), we still love it so much.
I am always interested in what my boys decide to be for Halloween. Hunter decided on a knight this year and I found him a super cool costume...and he would not have it. This was the one for him. I'm pretty sure that the sword is what sold him on it. He ended up pulling it off and looking like a cutie.
As McKay is a Captain America fanatic, I had no question about what he was going to be for Halloween. I'm pretty sure he decided on this costume the day after Halloween LAST year. I totally got this costume from H&M and he loved it.
Lincoln does not like the whole dress up thing, so we have to be very specific in his costumes. He's done Harry Potter 4 times, last year he was Ash from Pokemon, and this year it was Link from Zelda. He was a perfect Link and really got into our little photoshoot.
Palmer was determined to be scary. I told him he could be scary his 6th grade year (but not too scary, I didn't want him to scare McKay), and he was determined. This costume had glowy eyes and he thought it was pretty great.
I love thinking up costumes for Josh and I. I have a long list of costumes I want to do together.
Oh I love those cute boys.
We went to our ward Trunk or Treat that actually happens at a Christmas Tree farm. It was so well done (our activity person is pretty amazing) and everyone had a great time.
Decorating our trunk for the trunk or treators.
I was pretty in love with this viking costume. These are two of my seminary students and I think they looked great!
The kids favorite part of the whole night is just to run around with their friends.
Later in the week we decided to carve our pumpkins. We always buy pumpkins, but rarely carve them. I was pretty proud of us this year.
Cleaning out the inside is my least favorite part. Thank goodness for boys who are getting older and can do it themselves.
We go the pumpkins at at pumpkin patch/corn maze and the older three boys got the biggest pumpkins they could carry. McKay was adamant that he get this tiny one. He loved it and still talks about how great it was.
They did such a great job!
After carving pumpkins we decorated sugar cookies. This is another one of our traditions and it is so good that we don't do sugar cookies too often because I LOVE them. I usually eat them for breakfast until they are gone.
Usually the boys do layers in their cookies, frosting, candy and then more frosting. McKay was pretty conservative on this one.
I always make a similar cookie. I just really love our Frankenstein cookie cutter.
Our boys usually show love when it will most annoy their brothers. Example shown here.
This cookie was more of the "layer" approach.
Palmer went trick or treating with is friend Ben and Lincoln went with his friend Ryan (for some reason I don't have a picture).
For Halloween it was a little different this year. I had bronchitus so I stayed home and made the donuts, Palmer went with his friend Ben, Lincon went with his friend Ryan and Hunter and McKay went with Dad. I think everyone had a great time. I had two of my favorite seminary kids (Cheyenne and Rachel), come over for donuts after and then they showed our boys how to sort and trade candy (I'm not sure how come that was never taught before...horrible parenting obviously).
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