Halloween Activities

Our halloween activities this week have all been...indoor! The kids have loved waking up to snow in the morning unfortunately by late afternoon it is gone. Thankfully there is still snow in the mountains!

We started off the week with the ward halloween party. Ian went as captain america, Aaron as Ironman, Tim as the Hulk, and I went as black widow. 

The boys are not understanding the concept of "halloween." Everyday around our house is halloween. My favorite is when the boys would like to run errands around town dressed up as superheroes. It always puts a smile on everyones face when we pass by and the boys love when people stop and call them by their superhero name.

Later that week we wrapped the kitchen table in garbage bags and began carving. Ian and Aaron loved digging out all the pumpkin goo! Aaron also enjoyed putting it back inside the pumpkin.

I was so impressed with Ian this year! As I am sure you can tell these boys are obsessed with superheroes. We don't mind we enjoy superheroes as well. They both love watching SuperHero Squad,  and has decided the Wolverine is "so cool." This year he drew his own picture of wolverine -dad helped his make the picture a little more simplistic for pumpkin carving then away Ian went. Dad helped him tape on his picture then Ian poked the holes for his design and proceeded to carve the entire pumpkin by himself!

Aaron helped carve his pumpkin for about 2 seconds then waited for me to finish.

After the boys went to bed Tim and I finished our pumpkins, Tim carved the hulk, and I went with spiderman.

The hulk did not light up very well so Tim put an actual lightbulb inside and it worked much better -although it almost looks fake. It is an actual pumpkin -he used food coloring to make it green.

The next night we headed over to the Redd's house for dinner and dessert since both our husbands were gone. The boys had fun playing together and decorating cookies, but mostly licking the frosting :)

Ian has also been rocking this pair of vampire teeth around all week. His swimming instructor gave them to the kids for halloween with a treat. I still find it surprising when he smiles.

Bring on halloween! The boys are excited since they are starting to remember that Halloween means lots of candy (joy, just what we need). Ian has also decided that he no longer wants to be Captain America, he would like to be Wolverine. I informed him that I would not be buying him another costume and that he would have to be Captain America. After school that week Ian informed me that I did not need to worry. His friend Kimball is not going to be Wolverine and said that Ian could borrow his costume. Sure enough we now have Wolverine hanging in the laundry room ready for Ian to wear on Halloween. Lucky boy!

P.S. In other news my new battery charger for our camera came!!! Hurray finally no more blurry phone pictures.