Halloween Festivities

Well now that Halloween is over I am finally getting around to blogging about all of the activities leading up to it! It has been chaos the past few weeks so it just hasn't happened. But I'm almost all caught up! These are in no particular order. In fact, I think they are in the exact opposite order that they should be in. But oh well. I lack any sort of motivation to fix it. So we'll start from the end and work our way back!

Oct. 30th. 

Every Wednesday and Thursday is story time at the library. And the week of Halloween they do the story time trick or treating. The library is right next to all of the city and county offices. So every one meets at the library and they read Halloween stories and then walk through the county and city buildings trick or treating. Lucky for the girls, that is where Grandma works, so they get to go trick or treat at her office. 

After trick or treating we went to lunch with grandma and then took grandpa lunch because he was home sick. And Emery said her final good byes to our pigs, they went to the butcher on Thursday. We are excited to get our freezer filled up though!

Oct 22nd

One of my very favorite Halloween (and Valentine's) traditions is decorating sugar cookies. And the little chef Emery loves it too so we made up some cookies and invited Boston and Larissa over to help us decorate them! Emery absolutely loves baking. She loves to help me bake anything. She got to roll out her own dough and cut them and put them on the sheet to bake. 

After they were cooled her and Boston each got their own to frost. 

And decorate...yowza! That is a decorated cookie! Turns out she only took one bite of it and was done...I even kept it for a day and she never went back to it so it went in the trash. Must've been too sweet even for her!

The finished product of Larissa and I's decorating. They were delivered to Visiting Teachee's and neighbors. The other half (not pictured) Jake took to work/

Oct 29th

I had been planning on painting pumpkins for a while, but something always came up in the evening and we never got to do it! I knew they girls had zero interest in carving a pumpkin...because they can't! We just end up doing it for them. So a couple nights before Halloween we finally broke out the paints and got busy. Emery made sure to paint every square inch of the pumpkin, while Macie did more self painting than pumpkin painting. 

Oct 26th

My mom had her annual Halloween party. We dipped carmel apples and carved pumpkins. I got one carved for Emery, and Jake started one for him. But that's as far as we got in between taking care of the kids and then needing to be home for bedtime. Emery's pumpkin ended up rotting before Hallween even hit anyway, LAME! We'll be more on the ball next year! Maybe...

Overall October was a success. I always have about 1 million things I want to do in October because it really is the best month. But we don't get to even half of them. Mostly because we've had babies in all of our Octobers! Soooo next year I'm planning some awesome stuff since they will all be relatively old. It's gonna be awesome.