Halloween

It seems like we had a whole week of Halloween festivities.  We went to the pumpkin patch on Tuesday, and Weston and Savannah carved pumpkins.  We did trunk-or-treat at church on Wednesday evening.  I'm not a Halloween person, so I didn't put hardly any time and effort into trunk decorating.  I printed off some Angry Birds faces and taped them to balloons - that was it.  I had decided last minute to wear some Angry Bird pig costumes that I made for the boys back in 2016.  They looked a lot cuter in them, but it was fun to pull them out of the box in the garage and use them again. Owen wore one and I wore the other pig costume.  I made a red hat for Alex to wear as the red Angry Bird. 

Weston actually spent some time working on his costume with friends.  One of his friends used a 3-D printer to make costume accessories, and they worked on painting and finishing those.  Savannah made the face piece for Weston.  I can't remember exactly what Weston was... I think it was a character he made up from Star Wars, an unnamed Sith Lord. 

Savannah wanted to be a teddy bear.  It took a little time to find a brown sweatsuit for her to wear. I bought the bear ears and then just had to sew a brown piece and red bow onto the front of the sweatshirt.  Bonus is she can still wear the sweatsuit again after Halloween!

Savannah did her last costume parade at school on Halloween morning.  We had a fun time with dinner, by eating spaghetti with our fingers directly off the table.  I put plastic wrap all over the table and then just dumped the bowl of spaghetti out.  I got the idea from Nathan, who had done that once on his mission with a family from Nashville.  Later, Savannah went trick-or-treating with friends from school.  Alex and I wandered around the neighborhoods with Savannah, her friends, and some of the parents for about 2.5 hours!  Weston stayed home and passed out candy and watched a movie with friends.  Owen watched a movie at another friend's house.  

On Saturday after Halloween, we went to a friend party.  They had a Disney Villains party - lots of creative food and decorations!  

2016