Superhero Halloween!

Halloween this year was thankfully nice and warm. Ian had school the morning of halloween and was beyond excited to go dressed in a costume. Originally he had decided he would like to be Captain America however after our ward party he decided way to many people were dressed like Captain America. He borrowed a Wolverine costume from his friend Kimball but unfortunately Ian is much taller and the costume did not fit :( So while he listed off many other superheroes for me to go and buy for him he finally decided on Spiderman. We happened to already have a wonderful hand-me-down spiderman costume from Hunter plus spiderman shoes from Evan! He would always strike a spiderman pose at the door when trick-or-treating...it was hilarious!

Aaron enjoyed looking through Ian's superhero book that morning but had his mind set on dressing up like Ironman!

The kids in our area started early...very early. We were just sitting down to eat dinner before 5 o'clock and the doorbell started ringing and never stopped. We made the boys shove some homemade jack-o-lantern pizza in their mouths and then they were dressed before we knew it and ready to go! Of course I had to take some pictures which as you can see did not go very well. Threats were made, "If you do not look at me and smile, you will not go trick or treating." Which worked but only for one child at a time. 

 Enough was enough we were off! Spider Pike too!

Ian could hardly wait for Aaron he was so excited to collect candy. Aaron loved holding all of the candy in his hand while we walked from door to door. When his hands were full and he started dropping candy then he would let me put it inside his bag.

The Bawden's! Aaron absolutely loves them, they are his nursery leaders and do an amazing job! The moment he see's them he starts wildly waving with both hands high in the air. We are so grateful for them!

The boys were having so much fun and did not want to stop. Aaron started dragging his bag on the ground because he had so much candy. He finally broke into a candy bar (without me seeing that he had actually opened it) and shoved the whole thing in his mouth right before our neighbors house. When our neighbor Mike reached out to give Aaron a candy bar Aaron returned the favor by spitting out his candy bar into Mike's hand. Thankfully Mike has twin 3 year old girls and handled it very very well :) oops

When we arrived home Aaron enjoyed helping pass out candy with Daddy. Ian, Pike, and I decided to walk around another neighborhood in our ward. Pike was exhausted when we got home and did not mind the the kids were tossed various halloween costumes on him.

Ian loved making a big pile with all of his candy. Here are a couple of his favorite things that he received that night...

Bag of Popcorn: He was beyond excited and turned around immediately saying, "Thank you, thank you, thank you...how did you know that we were out of popcorn! Now we can have a movie night!" 

Halloween notepad, eraser, and pencil

Paddle Ball -sadly it broke the next day.

I was surprised that he really did not care to eat a lot of his candy. His favorites were fruit-roll-ups, m&m's, and suckers. Everything else he does really care for. That night Ian blew out the candles in the pumpkins and then we all headed to bed!

Everyone seemed to have a sugar hangover and be extremely tired the next day. Except for Aaron -probably because he spits out all of his candy!