Halloween

 For the first time that I can remember, the girls were really excited about Halloween and there was lots of talk about costumes and activities! After lots of discussion and a few trips to the store, we figured it out. We ended up with a witch, a penguin, and Josefina (one of the American Girls.) 

Our festivities started right after church with a pinata.There aren't very many kids at our church, but our children's leader has such a heart for our kids and is always doing fun things like this for them!

After church, we grabbed a quick bite to eat and then headed over to Kelsey's house. Her neighbor, Maria loves to decorate and have parties, so the two of them teamed up and set up some activities for the kiddos. The sun came out and it was a pretty great afternoon!

Mallory (a cheetah) decorating a pumpkin.

Haleigh tossing ping pong balls into buckets to win more candy!

Annaliese (Josefina) with her delicious caramel apple!

We left Kelsey's house in time to get home and finish getting dinner ready (chicken pot pie soup was cooking in the crockpot!) and headed over to Kim's house. We had a simple dinner (Soup and pigs-in-a-blanket!) before heading out to do some trick-or-treating in their neighborhood. 

A teenager. Josephine. A witch. A beyblade pro/fanatic. A penguin.

We had a perfect night to walk around; the kids got A LOT of candy and we were able to take a look at the stars and a few planets while we were out!

Assessing the candy!!

Halloween is such an odd day, but it was fun to spend the day doing so many different activities. And now we have more candy than we know what to do with!!

(Just for reference, here is the picture that Annaliese was using as we put together her costume. I'd say we did a pretty good job!)