Trick or Treat x3

We kicked off the Halloween festivities this year with some pumpkin carving.

Evan got to carve two pumpkins. One with Aunt Emily at her work party and one at home with Daddy and Bennet.


































Evan wanted to be a Lego Minifigure this year and Bennet still fit into the Dinosaur costume I made him last year, so I only had to make one new costume this year.

When I was a kid, I only went Trick or Treating once, on Halloween night. For some reason, these kids get to go beg for candy at least 3 times in a two day period. At least they get more use out of their costumes.


Our first Trick or Treating event was at Daddy's office. Every year, they invite the kids to come into the firm and trick or treat around the office, prior to having a little party after. The kids love going to go see Daddy at work and they get a lot of candy too.

After Trick or Treating at Daddy's office, we drove straight to our Church Halloween/Trunk R' Treat Party. Even with Mommy taking most of the candy we collected at Paul's office and redistributing it at Trunk or Treat, we still came home with more candy than we started with.

The next day was officially Halloween and we were very excited to go trick or treating around our new neighborhood. The kids had a great Halloween. I think next year instead of being afraid of running out of candy I will aspire to run out of candy.

Camping

Evan has been begging us to take him camping for over a year and we have just never got around to taking him for one reason or another. With the weather getting colder we knew we needed to make it happen sooner than later. We waited to tell Evan that we were going camping till he got home from school on Friday. He knew that we had a surprise for him after school. When he got home I opened up the trunk of the van and pointed to the tent, sleeping bags and lantern and asked him to guess his surprise. "Camping?!" He was so excited.

I had everything ready to go so we drove straight to the campground. Daddy got off work early and met us there for dinner. We had a delicious dinner of salmon asparagus and potatoes in a foil packet that Bennet loved (he is our resident fishmonger). I was in charge of packing it all, setting up the tent, making the fire and cooking dinner. Paul was in charge of spending the night in a tent with Evan. I think I got off easy. At 8 months pregnant sleeping in a tent did not sound like a good idea, so Bennet and I went home to sleep in our beds.

For dessert we had the traditional smore's. Evan liked the ones we made him but he had fun catching his on fire.