Halloween 2011

This post shows pictures from the whole week leading up to Halloween night.

Wednesday Oct 26 we carved pumpkins at our house. For the first time ever I bought one of those kits to do on 2 of our 4 pumpkins. I let the kids each pick a pattern- Caleb choosing a scary face and Ava choosing a witch. And then I did my favorite good old triangle faces on the other 2 pumpkins.

Thursday Oct 27 I went to Ava's preschool fall party, where they had lots of halloween/fall themed games set up in different classrooms.

Friday Oct 28 Ava got to wear her Halloween costume to her dance class. So very cute that was. Monday Oct 31 I volunteered at Caleb's class fall party. I helped with the mummy making station and also got a cute pic of him and his best buddy Nick in his class.

Then that night was Halloween in our neighborhood and an absolute blast it was. Caleb was a pirate and Ava was Ariel. Our cul de sac set up a long table full of baked goods we all made- pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cheese cake, frankenstein cup cakes, ginger snap cookies with pumpkin dip, hot apple cider and lots of candy too of course, along with a warm fire pit. Other houses in our neighborhood had everything from small haunted houses to smore's. Ava and her friend/our next door neighbor Emma are in a lot of the trick-or-treat pictures as they stayed on pace with us parents, where as Caleb was darting up ahead in sheer excitement with Brady and other friends. Lots of fun, lots of candy, lots of memories:)