Here are a few cute pictures from our Halloween festivities. For the third year in a row I took the kiddos down to Main Street downtown to trick or treat at the businesses on Friday. Saturday our ward had their trunk or treat and a big Halloween party so the kids were delighted to dress up again. When Jacob saw Jeff in a champion wrestler/superhero costume (which was it, Jeff?! (: ) and when he saw me in my ridiculous nerdy costume he asked us "what kind of lion are you?" So, Jacob was a lion, and Rebecca was a cow, and they played their parts fairly well.
This year for Halloween I got in on a great deal with SheSpeaks and
was chosen to be one of many bloggers who handed out a NEW kind of
Snickers on Halloween. I really like the new candy, it's like a
regular Snickers but with the addition of creamy peanut butter and
fewer actual peanuts. We have some left over if anyone nearby wants to come
raid our kitchen!
In addition to
being provided with this new candy (and the original) to hand out to
trick or treaters, we also received a fog machine, "fog juice," as
Jacob calls it, a strobe light, some spider webbing to hang up, a large
sign declaring that it was no trick - this was the only house to get
this new treat, Snickers caution tape and window clings and a trick or
treat bag. So we decorated our house as best we could. The kids had a
great time helping me "scissor" the caution tape and stretch out the
webbing across our door, and my husband helped hang up the big sign
once we had the rest all done. The Snickers Peanut Butter Squared will be available in stores later this winter, and in case it means anything, I recommend it! :)
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| Where's Jacob? |
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| Oh no! There's a lion in the sandbox! |
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| Visiting Dad's floor at the business building, the kids took some time to show our good friend Venky how solving the world's accounting research conundrums is more fun when you scribble in the middle of your work. |
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| They both fell asleep on the way home from trick or treating on Main/having lunch at the Institute/visiting Dad's office. That is one tired cow... |
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| And one sleepy lion! ("Wimoweh," anyone?) |
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| Some more playing in Venky's office. He let her ring this bell for a little bit, and I wished I'd looked for a cow bell for her to wear that day. |
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| The doorstep in the middle of decorating it, and Rebecca sporting her Happy Haunting sweatshirt. |
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| Mummy wrapping at the church party! Jacob kept asking, "Where is Daddy, I just can't find him ANYwhere?!" |
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| Eating a cookie with black icing is so fun and colorful for the teeth. |
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| Jacob decorated his own cookie. I think it turned out quite well. |
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| The family in costume! You wish I didn't have my jacket on so you could see the rainbow suspenders better, and that you could see my uneven pigtails and poorly rolled up jeans. And you wish Jeff had his cape on for the picture. But here we are nonetheless. |
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| Our cow could stand on her hind legs; she's fairly amazing. |
Throwing caution (tape) to the wind from Jeff Hoopes on Vimeo.
fog machine from Jeff Hoopes on Vimeo.
