Halloween Weekend

I really enjoy Halloween and this weekend has been one on-going party. The celebrations began on Friday. I volunteered at Austin's school to help with their Halloween party, I did a little face painting. Thank goodness the kids were only 3 & 4th graders and didn't really care that I have no previous experience with face painting. The kids did have some eerie requests though; one boy asked me to paint a bullet hole on his forehead with blood dripping out of it, however, most just wanted stitches across their face with remnants of blood. Later that afternoon the boys got dressed up and I took them to the local nursing home for their annual event. The weather was beautiful and I was able to get some good pictures of the boys in their costumes. We nicknamed Andrew "Bones" and Cameron played the werewolf part well. Austin chose to be a scary ghost this year so I nicknamed us, the house of horror.

Saturday afternoon I took the kids as well as Taylar & Jordynn to the Children's Fair at the high school. I was really impressed by it! So many vendors were there and most of them had great activities for the kids. Later Saturday evening was the trunk-or-treat in the church parking lot. I like to dress up for Halloween as well so this year I bought a cheap costume from Walmart and walked around as a Vampire. It was great having Spencer join us. He got home from hunting in time to come out with us. He, unfortunately, doesn't quite share the same enthusiasm for dressing up in costume as I do. Oh well.

Seeing as the actual holiday fell on Sunday we opted to not go trick-or-treating this year in the neighborhood and just stay home and pass out candy, and the boys loved it! We also finished our Halloween Harry Potter Movie Marathon that we started on Friday. Happy Halloween everybody!