Halloween Fun, for Everyone!

The week of Halloween was CrAZy! I'm still trying to recover from all the fun things we did! Every day was some sort of party or activity and sometimes two or three things!! But we survived and I’m now finally able to post some pictures of the cute and creative activities.

Preschool Halloween Party
I was in charge of Mara’s Halloween preschool party. Boy was it a lot of work, but well worth it! The kids had a lot of fun and so did I! First of all let me introduce our wonderful preschool group. I just love each of the moms that are in the group. What a great circle of friends we have.

Alora ‘Tinkerbell’ & Jeri

Cecilia ‘Dorthy’ & Charity

Susie & Ky ‘Spiderman’

Carson ‘Dragon’ & Teran

Amber & Tacoma ‘Little Skunk’

Megan & Ethan ‘Buzz Lightyear’

AndErica ‘Clown Cowboy Scientist’, Mara ‘Tinkerbell’, and Caleb ‘Peter Pan’.
**Let me do a little explaining about my crazy costume: Whenever we ask Ty want he wants to be when he grows up he always says: A King Cowboy Scientist. We don’t know where it comes from, how he got it, or why he wants to be a King Cowboy Scientist, but that’s just what he wants to be. So I pulled a few things together and decided I would be a Clown Cowboy Scientist instead of a King Cowboy Scientist! Wacky! I know! But I felt like I had to wear something to the party!
We had many activities at our party: playdough A cookie walk, and when their letter was called they got to decorate a cookie.

Grandma Lewis came to help me with the party! A BIG Huge thank you for all her help, I couldn't have done it without her! She was a lifesaver. She told the kids a Halloween story, and helped with the decorations. Glad she would come down and celebrate Halloween with us!

A bat craft tracing their hands and making it into a little hanging bat. We read stories, played more games, and just had a great time! Phewww! Glad that one’s over!
Isn’t this just the cutest little Peter Pan you just ever did see!!! (Not too many pictures with him wearing his Peter Pan hat!)

Trunk –or–Treat At Playgroup

Here we have Dorothy & Todo!! So cute and darling! Each day they were something different! Glad we have so many dress up clothes! It makes the week of Halloween pretty fun!
We attend playgroup every Tuesday and Thursday. Sometimes it’s at the church, on nice days we go to the park! That’s a lot of kids for one community! I LOVE having so many young families and kids here!!

Grandma was able to go help out at Ty’s school in the morning and meet us over for playgroup.

The kids went around to each car and picked out a treat. It was a beautiful sunny day which made it perfect!

After a few times going from car to car Caleb totally picked up on it and thought this was the best activity in the world! He loved choosing his treat and putting it in his bag!

Castle Heights Elementary Carnival

Ty's school does a carnival for the families in the community every year. It was fun to play games and see all our friends.

Here we have a Star Wars guy, a cheerleader, and a Dalmatian! Ty’s school puts on a carnival every Halloween for the families in the community. The college helps out with the games and decorations.

There was quite a lot to do for one night, we skipped out on the spook alley and Silent Auction. Lots of fun though!

Ty’s Class Party

I was able to go help out at Ty’s class party. They did a few fun things including a Halloween Parade around the school.

Here is Miss Campbell’s 1st grade class!

Ty went as a pirate ‘aka Captain Hook!’

Caleb thought school was pretty boring, until he found the box of recess exquipment with the balls and he had a great time!

Princess Ariel went also! She had a great time seeing Ty’s classroom and being with his friends. She is ready for school! Ty with his buddy Cannon, the monkey, and friend Paige, the witch!
Bloody eyeballs anyone?! I made these treats for Ty’s class. Really they are doughnuts, green M&Ms and red frosting!! We took a few of those bloody eyeballs to daddy’s work and went for a visit in our costumes! It’s been a tradition for several years now to visit daddy on Halloween and take a treat into his work. It’s nice to have a three minute drive instead of 30 minute drive!

Ward Halloween Party!

Our ward hosted a fun Halloween soup and bread party. This was probably my favorite night only because of our awesome costumes! If you know my husband, you know his dislike for dressing up on Halloween. There is only one thing he likes to wear: his Mexican Hurango. If you know me you know how much I like to not only all dress up but to have everyone be part of a theme *for example the Peter Pan theme this year*! When Grandma Lewis came to town she brought with her two little Hurangos for the kids and a dress for me! I was so excited! We just needed one more costume for Caleb! Since we looked like little Goat Herders we thought about making a Goat Costume for Caleb but ran out of means and time! So we found some fabric at the store and made one more matching Hurango so we could have an entire family of: GOAT HERDERS!!!

3 cute amigos

Yo es un Goat Herder’s Wife! Con esposo un Mexicano Goat Herder y tres amigos= uno feliz familia!!

Baby Blessing

Just when you thought our weekend couldn’t get any busier (and we still haven’t even gotten to Halloween!) we headed up North to be with family for Lincoln’s baby blessing!

Mara couldn’t have been happier holding this little baby! It is her favorite thing to hold and give loves to her baby cousin Lincoln!

How cute! It was a great weekend with family! Everyone was able to be together, including Uncle John and Aunt Tracie who flew in from Alaska! (And to make it fun we met John and Tracie at the airport dressed in our Mexican Flair! I need to get that photo from John!! It was pretty funny!)

Trick-or-Treat

You would have thought we were in Tillamook with the amount of rain we had for trick-or-treating! My goodness did it pour!

We went trick-or-treating on Saturday. This is actually only Ty's second time trick-or-treating, usually we have a trunk-or-treat at the church so Ty thought going from house to house all around the neighborhood was pretty awesome.

Peter Pan stayed home in the warm house with his daddy!

Tinkerbell or Marabell as she was called part of the night and a cute little Dragon—cousin Garrett!

Mara taking good care of her cousin! She is really good to watch out for him and she made sure he got a candy at each house! It was a fun night even despite the rain! It wasn’t too bad and it made for less trick-or-treaters!

At the end of the night we were all pretty satisfied with our candy bags! We had just one more place to go trick-or-treating and that was to see Mimi & Papa who were in Salt Lake at a Halloween Party. We drove over to the home they were at and knocked on the door and said ‘Trick-or-Treat’! It was so fun to see the reaction from the friends and Mimi & Papa. They could hardly believe it! The trick however, came when we were about to leave and we couldn’t find Ty anywhere. It was rather scary not knowing where he went to, but he had slipped out the front door and was hiding on the other side of the car. I could have strangled the kid! We were calling his name and looking for him everywhere. I don’t know why he pulled that prank on us, other than he is a typical 6 year old little boy sometimes! Just glad he was okay!
So that was the Lewis Halloween 2010!! Grateful for fun times and definitely not too anxious for Halloween next year, glad it’s a one time a year event!