(Nick's school doesn't allow costumes, and in fact calls the day "Orange and Black Day," so he is dressed in orange and black for school.)
Nick had fun at school, playing in the yard, sharing a special holiday snack (including the cupcakes he made!), and participating in the sing-a-long.
Julianna and the rest of the Kindergarten enjoyed crafts, cookie decorating, trick-or-treating in the Parish Hall, and lots more during their big party day.
Then, the whole school had the Halloween Parade!
Our girls (Felicity, Elizabeth, Nan, and Mary from American Girl's Felicity story) marched in the "Groups" category.
We put out some last decorations (the luminaries and the spider web) and got the candy ready for trick-or-treaters!
Darell arrived in time to help Julianna carve the pumpkin Nick got from school. (Julianna's original jack-o-lantern collapsed in a moldy, mushy heap, right before our eyes.)
Kathryn, the Bakers, and the Condits came over to have dinner (pizza!) and go trick-or-treating.
Half of the grown-ups took the kids out, and other half stayed home to hand out candy.
Last year, the marching band was practicing during trick-or-treating, and this year there was a football game going on! Apparently, the high school marching band provides the soundtrack of Halloween in our neighborhood!
Katie and Catherine thought the "Spooky House" was AWESOME! while the other kids were too scared and stayed back. Other than that, all seven kids (including Nick!) were enthusiastic trick-or-treaters.
Arriving back home with heavy loot bags, the big girls headed upstairs to do some trading. I don't know who came up with that idea, but they were very serious up there going through their candy and trading with each other for their favorites!
It was such a great day and night, with beautiful costumes, happy kids, and a fun group of adults!
And now: SO MUCH CANDY.
2 comments:
The house looked fabulous and the costumes wonderful. Glad everyone had such a great time. Looked like fun was had by all. Enjoy eating up all that candy....a dentists dream. Lots of love and hugs, xxoo Noni
I love the spider web - fun, fun, fun. The pictures were great, all the kids looked wonderful, sure wish I could have been there too. Love to all, Mom
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