A Davis Halloween

We all got dressed up for Halloween again this year... a few times as a mater of fact. Laura and I were the same old... young Nerd and Witch. This year Jamie wanted to be a Gypsy and Nathan got to be a Cowboy!

Our first dress rehersal was at the annual Halloween Trunk-or-Treat for the National Guard. Both of the kids fell fast asleep on the way to Camp Williams. Guess they needed to rest up for the party.

Unfortunatly the weather didn't cooperate with us very well. It was windy and cold. We stuck it out long enough to get a bunch of candy, a few hot dogs and some balloon creations. Nathan got a designer hat with a ghost hanging on it which he popped before we even got home. Jamie got a cute teddy bear with a big heart just like her daddy!

Pumpkin carving for Family Night was a big success.

Jamie decided that she wanted to just paint a face on her pumpkin. It was cute but the snow we had during the week wiped it's smirk right off.

It takes a pretty strong man to gut a pumpkin! So, I shortly gave up and had Laura take care of it.

Nathan couldn't decide if he wanted a scary or happy pumpkin so he got a cross between a pig and a vampire... I'm not really sure what one would call it... vampig... maybe pigpire... oh well, he liked it.

After the pumpkin carving we had donuts and listend to about 30 seconds of the Spooky Stories CD before the kids started freaking out. It was quite funny to see Nathan look around at us like we were nuts to be playing something so obviously horrifying not to mention the lights being off and the spooky glow flikering from the Jack-O-Lanterns. Maybe in a few more years.

Halloween night was a blast for the kids. Well, we did have fun too.

We were grateful that the weather warmed up and we had fun taking the kids around the block. They got tons of candy. After hitting our neighboehood we decided to crash Larry and Julie's party and get even more candy for Laura to hide away and dole out one peice at a time for the next year.