A Mom I Am!: Happy Halloweek!

Happy Halloweek (and that's not a typo)! My little ones are not even in school or even preschool and we had something to celebrate Halloween almost every day this past week. Of course, mommy is to blame since I signed up for all of these events. It was fun, but we are worn out! The boys are exhausted; tonight they're in bed at 7:30!

The busy week started off with me staying up past 1:00 am sewing hair onto Trevor's scarecrow costume. I bought it like this.

And finished with this.

The costume was a little small on him and the hat only came halfway down the back of his head. Since I bought it over the internet, I didn't have time to return it. I think it turned out pretty cute, even if he does look a little like girl... He didn't seem to mind!

Our first event was a Halloween party at church. It was a little carnival with a trick-or-treat parade. At first, the boys were questioning "you want us to take candy from someone??," however they quickly got the hang of it!

Later during the week, we went to an "Enchanted Forest." It was neat, but we had the boys in the stroller and there was a long line so they were a little restless. I think they will enjoy it more next year when they can (maybe) run free! There were the typical witches and pumpkins, but they also got to see a puppet show, a magician, real owls, and pose with a couple of pirates (you can tell by the picture below how excited they were about this...).

The next evening, we participated in our first "Trunk-or-Treat." Not bad for our first, but after seeing the other cars, Steve and I are going to have to get more creative next year!

On Friday, we went to a Halloween party with a mom's group. The kids had a blast and I had to carry them out screaming! They did NOT want to leave! Thankfully, I had my mom to help me out.

Friday night, we went to a Trick-or-Treat block party. Trevor could have cared less about the block party, however, he said it was "fun since he got to hang out with Uncle Dan!"

We took a break on Saturday so we could conserve our energy for the next day, the big night (and by now we didn't have any energy left anyway)!

On Halloween, I wanted to make something creative and ended up with these. The boys didn't care much for the cupcakes, but loved the "ghosts." I have several half eaten cupcakes as proof! :)

And then we were off with the trick-or-treating...

Trevor decided about halfway through it, he wanted to pull the wagon. We tried to help him, but Mr. Independent didn't need any help! Okay, boy go for it! He did!

We stopped by a church that had a bunch of fun activities going on. Trevor and Ethan got to put pumpkin fires out with water guns, do a ring toss, spit pumpkin seeds and bob for apples.

Who knew this kid loved apples so much...well, at least until he saw the candy!

We had to get a picture with all of the little ones. I think Ethan may be getting jealous since he's not getting all of the attention any longer. Trevor LOVES his cousin Leah and always has a smile on his face whenever he sees her!

About the last block of our trick-or-treating, Pappa Joe pulls out his golf cart and finishes out the night. Why didn't we think of this at the beginning of the evening??? Next year for sure!