Halloween is over and done!

I love Halloween.  Really, I do.  It's a holiday with low expectations but lots of possibilities.  I always participate in at least a couple of Halloween parties.  We often have a costume party with my extended family, and we usually invite Wayne's siblings over for a mystery dinner.  This year, we had to make other plans, but we still had lots of fun!

Our first party was the Halloween Party at the church.  It's always a little weird that we even have Halloween parties at our church.  Yes, I am still in charge of our ward activities.  This was mostly just a chance for the kids to get dressed up and play some games.  We started with a costume parade.  Then, we let the kids go from station to station doing things like tossing rings around pumpkins and playing giant Twister.  If you ever want to rent a giant Twister, try Outdoors Unlimited at BYU.  It's huge.  I think Benjamin was in awe of it here:

Our next Halloween celebration was the stuff at school.  Wayne and I both went to it.  Benjamin had a costume parade with the other kindergarteners.  Daniel had a singing and dancing performance with the second graders.  And I helped the kindergarteners play Boo Bingo in their classroom.

On Friday, we went to Wayne's office for trick or treating.  Benjamin insisted that we all choose costumes with a theme this year.  We went with Toy Story.  Benjamin and I had "official" Disney costumes.  We bought Daniel's penguin on ebay.  Daniel is Wheezy, in case you couldn't tell.  And Wayne's costume is a combo of stuff he already had in his closet and stuff we found at D.I.

On Halloween, we carved our pumpkins.  And we went trick or treating again.  And by then, I'll admit it, I was pretty much sick of Halloween.  But now, a few days after, Benjamin and I are already dreaming up ideas for costumes for next year.