Happy Halloween!

What a fun night we had last night! The weather couldn't have been any more beauitful and the kids couldn't have been any  more excited.  Our plan was to get out trick-or-treating around 6pm, but the plan went awry when some neighbor kids came to the house around 5:15 for trick-or-treating!  Then.. it was rush around to find the candy, rush around to find the candles to light the jack o'lanterns, rush around when the next neighbor kids came around and on with the chaos!  Fun chaos though!  As mentioned before - the kids were so excited!

Earlier that day, I went into Emma's classroom for her little Halloween party.  The parents got to help the kids come up with their own play based on their Halloween costumes.  The kids got to come up with the story, design a backdrop, and act it out in front of the class.  At Emma's table there was a witch (Emma), SpiderMan, Batman, and a girl who was a character from a musical movie on Disney (cannot remember what it is called - Friday Night Musical.... Highschool Musical... something like that).  Their play was called the Deep Dark Forest and all the characters were in the middle of the forest when a werewolf jumps out at them.  Emma flies off to get help, the singer starts singwing to distract them and SpiderMan and Batman try to fight off the werewolf.  They were able to subdue the werewolf and spin a web over it by the time Emma gets back.  Emma comes back with another witch and warlock (sp?) and then casts a spell on the werewolf to make him nice.  Then, they go back to Emma's cottage where she makes stew and they have a dancing party to celebrate that the werewolf is nice.  Pretty nice story, eh?  The kids did great - Emma had fun and then I got to eat lunch with her in the classroom.



Here is the group of kids in the classroom with their background they created.

Now - back to trick-or-treating :-)


We rushed through supper, but needless to say the kids were not overly hungry.  Emma changed costumes at the last minute due to her witch dress being itchy (even though I tried to explain to the monkey that her coat would be underneath it) and decided to be Astrid from How to Train your Dragon again. Evan was a dragon.  (Hmmm.. maybe Emma wanted to train Evan?? from the picture below, you may think that!) 


Evan wanted no part of taking a picture with Emma.



However, on his own, he was all smiles.



Happy and ready-to-go Astrid.



The front of the house decorated with pumpkins.




In the boo train




The twins were dragons too, so we had a dragon train.  Evan and Charley are in the same costume.
(Charley is wearing a dragon costume that Evan wore 2 years ago.) 



The boo train and driver.

 We got out around 6:15 and around 7:45, the kids decided that it was time to head home..   By this time, Evan was dragging his full candy bag. 



The loot!!




Nope, not the best picture of Emma - but still a happy Emma!

Overall, it was a great, great night.  Being outside on the lawnmower was so nice and the kids had such a great time.  Now - only 8 weeks until Christmas :-)