All Dressed Up

We had such a fun Halloween!

The day started off with a field trip to a local pumpkin patch. Actually it was a church that created a large pumpkin display and offered some fun games, storytelling and other pumpkin activities. The school was taking the K-2 classes, so all 3 of my kids went on this field trip. For that reason, I took off of work so that I could tag along. Here are some of the pictures I took:

Julia's Kindergarten class



Julia with her best friend, Bailey.



Nathan's 1st Grade class (Nathan's grandmother, who he calls KayTee, is his teacher. She's on the back row.)



Nathan with his best pals, Colton and Avery.



Joel's class



Joel with his friend Numan.



Joel with his friend Zavian.



After school, Joel had his hippo-therapy (or horse lessons, as we call them). When Nathan, Julia and I went to pick him up, we discovered Joel painting the horse! Nathan and Julia got in on the act as well. What fun they had giving the horse a new look! You can really say that this is a "paint horse!"



And last, but certainly not least among the day's events, was dressing up to trick or treat. Here's the three of them standing in the yard.



Joel, dressed as Abraham Lincoln. Joel's only wanted to dress up as Abe for the past 3 years. I was worried the costume would look cheap, but it turned out looking really great on him! He kept referring to himself as AL, which cracked me up for some reason.



Nathan was a superhero of his own design. He wore Batman's cape, Superman's shirt, the Flash's helmet, Wonder Woman's red boots, and had green arms like the Hulk (or maybe it was Aquaman). At any rate, he was decked out in the creation that was totally his own. He called himself SuperDude. (Originally, he was called himself Amazo, but a few days before Halloween he changed the name.)


This is SuperDude's hat up close. His mother was frantically working to get this hat created just minutes before it was time to trick-or-treat. After making the hat and painting SuperDude's arms green, poor mom was almost too tired to take everyone trick-or-treating!



SuperDude strikes a pose! What a guy!



Little Miss Julia fell in love with poodle skirts this year. Here she is decked out in her 1950's outfit. She loved twirling in this skirt!





We now have more candy that we can possibly eat. The kids spent most of the day on a major sugar high. I'm going to hide it all tonight so that we can dole it out bit by bit over the next several MONTHS. Really ... we have so much, it should take to next Halloween to eat it all! Santa will not have to spend any money on stocking candy this Christmas!