Halloween {2015}

This year our Halloween festivities began on October 29, with our ward party. This is the first time since we have had kids that our ward has done a Halloween party. It was fun because Boston was big enough to sort of know what is going on. It was so fun to get together with some friends of ours in the ward who also have kids about the same age as ours and have dinner. Plus they had a little section for kids to play games and get prizes. Boston LOVED that! There was also some entertainment at the party as well as a trunk-or-treat! Boston started to get the hang of saying, "Trick-or-Treat" and "Thank You" because he got candy. We let him have a few pieces as he asked for his, "choc" (chocolate). 

Halloween was on a Saturday this year so I had the kids dress in their Halloween clothes for the day. We didn't do much during the day, just kind of hung around and cleaned. But we were excited for the night to go trick-or treating!!

I was hoping that this year it would be warm like it was last year, but it was so cold and windy. So I was so happy and thankful that Boston and Ella had warm costumes to protect from the weather.

I tried to get some good pictures of the kids in both their Halloween shirts and Halloween costumes. But taking pictures of them, and getting a good one has become so difficult lately. Especially with Boston, for some reason he does not like getting his picture taken any more. So they turned out blurry or not looking at the camera. But they do look so cute in their costumes! Boston was a fireman and Ella was an elephant. 

Since our apartment is near a neighborhood, we just walked down the street and did our trick-or-treating down about a street and a half. Almost every house we went to commented on how cute Boston was and some even game him some extra candy because of how cute he was. He was a cute little fireman!

After almost every house Boston wanted to stop for a candy break! So we let him have a smartie or a dot (something little) to get him by to go to the next house. We were gone for almost an hour and probably went to about 15-20 houses, having little ones sure makes the trick-or-treating process longer. Thankfully I brought the stroller for Ella, she must of stayed warm enough because by the end of trick-or-treating she was asleep!

Boston was so excited and quite literally a kid in a candy store with his stash of candy he got! He loves the chocolate but also suckers, so whenever we went to a house where he could choose any piece he wanted, he would grab a sucker! Both Blake and I were thinking, "No grab the chocolate!" because there is no way we are going to let Boston eat all that candy! So we wanted some of the good stuff! But after looking at his candy, he actually didn't get too many suckers. So we were happy too!

After we had gone trick-or-treating we had our friends Will and Jenna over for a little Halloween party. They brought some carmel apples (YUM!) and I made a few goodies as well. It was not much we just had food, visited, and ended up watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. We figured that fit with the Halloween theme, since there really weren't any good Halloween movies on Netflix.

I tried to add a little more decor and blew up some white balloons hanging them upside down and drawing faces on them to look like ghosts, but they just wouldn't stick to the ceiling, so that was a fail, but I did get a picture at least to show! 

Halloween was good this year, even if we didn't end up carving our pumpkins. We were going to but never got around to it, at least we can still use them as decor for Thanksgiving!