{Halloween Night}

These are the boys right before trick or treating.
This year we went around our little neighborhood and they got a ton of candy.
It was a cold night but lots of fun!

{Star Wars, Pirate, Princess and a Witch}

Another Scout Halloween Carnival but this year K had to "work" the carnival instead of enjoy all the games and food.

We managed to get a picture of all the kids together before he got started.

We love that the girls come with us every year and we always end up with too many cakes from the cake walk!!

{Star Wars Halloween II)

So Star Wars is a yearly theme in our house it seems.

E picked to be a Storm trooper and his brother reverted to his stand by of a Jedi costume.

After two costume meltdowns I was just happy to see them in something. E was pretty much forced into his and I gave up with K b/c he just didn't like the costume we tried to put together and wasting 10 dollars on his didn't seem like too much to me since he will wear those other clothes as regular clothes now.

We trunk or treated on Saturday with our cousins and our ward. The place was pretty full and we got tons of candy. It was a lot of fun!

{cake}

For our war Halloween Carnival the boys had to each make a cake for the cake walk....this is what we ended up with...

a zombie alien

a mummy

Halloween Night

Well Halloween was more of an afternoon/evening thing for us this year.
We started at about 3 by going to our local shopping center where we meet up with some friends from the ward. We trick or treated all the stores and the kids got tons of candy and the moms got some coupons for free food from the restaurants.

Than about 5 pm we went with some of the same friends up to a model home area and trick or treated and they got more candy and we got more free stuff...we are liking that they give stuff ot the parents too!!

After we got home I took the boys around our little block and because there aren't a lot of kids who trick or treat this area we got a lot of candy. They boys loved to answer the door for the people who showed up at our door.

They sorted out candy and instead of trading Kaden just gave away most of his candy to his brother. He decided this year that he only needed two pieces of each type of candy...ss E really won out on this deal.

Here are the boys in all their Halloween glory!

And yes....Kaden always makes that face at the camera now.

Guess what we almost forgot?

Well tonight at 815 I realize we have forgotten on of the main traditional Halloween activities...

Yep...we forgot to carve pumpkins. We did buy pumpkins two Saturdays ago and since then the boys have asked daily when we will carve them, but stopped asking on Monday. So we forgot too.

After a quick discussion about how I didn't want to carve pumpkins but how I would feel guilty for the rest of the time the pumpkins lived on our porch we started carving at 830 tonight. Luckily since we live in Vegas, tomorrow is Nevada Day so we don't have school. After 45 minutes we have finished the pumpkins....it has to be a world record.

Chad cut them open, I got all the guts out and the boys started hammering....

Yes Hammering....you see when Kaden was little like 18 months or so he was so disappointed that he couldn't carve the pumpkin and it was just not fun for a baby. The next year we discovered these things that are like light brights (remember those?). You hammer in the lights and than put a small flashlight on the inside and it is easy, cute and they get to do it themselves.

Last year they each got two pumpkins, this year they each got one and one for Chad. So they decided Chad would carve Mickey Mouse into his and the boys would hammer theirs.

So here is the process....

Here is E's

Did you guess it is Wall-E?

K's will be a disco ball

He always gives up and does what he calls a "Carzy design"

But he is still hammering away so his picture will come tomorrow.

And Chad's in the dark and light....

Halloween Carnival

This year our ward had a Halloween carnival instead of the usual trunk or treat. We missed the trunk or treat and have no idea where we will be trick or treating this year but the boys liked the carnival. They had all kinds of games set up and the boys had a lot of fun. Ethan's favorite was the cake walk and he even won a cake.

The boys are going with the Star Wars theme again this year. I am thinking we are stuck in this "phase" for awhile. Last year we had Darth Vader and Boba Fett (some guy from the newer star wars movies)

This year E is Jega Fett (I have been told he is a bounty hunter and maybe a brother to Boba Fett? I don't know if I have that right.)

K is a Jedi.

All the pictures are from chad's phone b/c my camera is so broken!! So they aren't the best quatlity but you can get the idea!