I always loved Halloween as a kid. I loved that my dad always dressed up with us and took us door to door. I loved our family tradition of making and decorating sugar cookies and carving pumpkins. I've tried to carry on some of those traditions in our own family, and I hope for our boys that Halloween is something they look back on one day with fond memories.
Now, as a parent, I find the day to be very chaotic and busy, but we still have fun.
We grew our pumpkins in our garden this year. Some years, we have success, other years, not so much. We had two nice size ones this year, and one that grew giant! Tyler claimed the huge one, and Chad did not even argue because at the time, it was still green and the others were already turned. Of course, it turned by Halloween, but everyone seemed to remain happy their his choice of pumpkin.
We mostly let the boys design their own Jack-O-Lantern's. They clean them our and draw on the faces, and Dave and I do the carving.
They were pretty proud of their finished result.
Here are our three skeletons. This year, I had wanted to make a skeleton shirt for Dave and I, and Tyler had already decided to be a skeleton. Chad and Greyson wanted to be Woody (from Toy Story), but I never could get Greyson to put the Woody costume on. So, I knew he would happily wear his skeleton pajamas, and all we had to do was convince Chad that we should ALL be a family of skeletons. We found Chad's shirt and just used fabric paints to add bones to his arms and legs. Here is our finished outfits. Nothing creative, as I have seen this all over blogs, but I still thought it was cute.
And one last picture, of Chad sorting his candies. This is one of my favorite memories as a kid. When I finished trick-or-treating, I loved to dump my bag and sort my candies. It was so fun to see Chad and Tyler do it on their own this year, and even Greyson followed suit with a little help.
I had that same Halloween costume! Ha ha. It's so cute!
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