Breezy volunteered to make a Halloween costume with Annie this year. They hit up Goodwill and the dollar store to gather supplies to make the most beautiful fairy costume ever!
How magical is this picture?!? Breezy knocked it out of the park with the hot glued flowers and photography skills.
Mimi did some deep YouTube research on butterfly facepaint in preparation for Annie's birthday party. She put her skills to further use to combine with the Halloween costume!
Our first Halloween activity of the year was a trunk or treat at the Villas where Papa lives. He dressed up as an Army guy.
The Barbie movie is still culturally relevant.
Creepy ice cream sundae cup bar!
The next activity was the ward trunk or treat, which we didn't take any pictures of. I actually did somewhat decorate our trunk this year- we made a lollipop farm with a brown sheet and all the tractor toys we had around. It ended up being quite contentious because the kids couldn't agree on what color the box with holes for the dum dums should be. The fun family lollipop farm craft turned into me painting a box by myself while the kids cried. I should have stuck with our tried and true Frankenstein nose picker!
Claudia's house has cute witch hat decor. Aaron makes them even cuter.
We carved pumpkins a few days before Halloween. Isaac picked a super cute and simple design.
Annie's pumpkin was a lumpy pink one that ended up being SO THICK. I am impressed that I managed to execute the requested kitty corn carving as well as I did- it was a challenge! Elliot decided to do a pizza slice, but the kind where it is scraped instead of cut for a translucent effect. We did not have the right tools for that. He worked so long on it with a steak knife and our files, but he couldn't get it thin enough for our little light to shine through. He eventually poked a hole in it. I was pretty impressed that he handled the hole after an hour of scraping as well as he did. We carved a normal face on the back to salvage it. Felix's was easy- I didn't take the seeds out, just drilled a few holes in it to make polka dots.
We ate eyeball meatballs for dinner on Halloween night.
The trick or treating crew!
Another picture in worse light after mothman Breezy joined us!
The day after Halloween, Rancho hosted a pumpkin chuckin event where we could bring our pumpkins and catapult them in the overflow parking lot. They left them out for the javelina and crows to enjoy.
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