Halloween

Sam decided a few months ago that he wanted to be Max -King of the Wild Things. He's really good at being Max.

We went to Where the Wild Things Are at the theater a few weeks ago and Sam thought it would be great if Dave and I were KW and Carole -some of the wild things from the movie. I thought about it and decided it might be kind of fun to try to create those characters. I tried to talk Ali and Spencer into being wild things also, but that wasn't happening.

Last Saturday Dave and I went to a fun Halloween party at the Calls house. We ate yummy food, hung out, and and played the Thimble game. They also voted on best costume which Dave won

(actually Janelle, the hostess, won but she wasn't accepting the award). Another couple there, the Lynn's had great costumes. Kristine was Wilbur -the pig from Charlotte's Web, and John was the web who was carrying their 3 month old baby Micah in a front carrier (I can't think of the name?) and Kristine added 6 legs and the baby's made 8. It was so cute and clever.

On Wednesday night I got to perform Thriller with a fun group of "Mormon Moms" at our tri-ward Trunk-or-Treat party. It was a thrill. We've been practicing for a few months now every Wednesday morning at 9:00 -now what? You can check it out at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OIVtdjKrKc

Dave got to run the Spook Alley which he and the Scouts (Spencer's one of them) put together.

The Scouts also were the scary grabbers and moaners inside the Spook Alley. -Fun times.

This was at Ali's class Halloween party.

The whole school gathered out on the lawn the last half hour of school for a parade. It was pretty cool. This was the 1st time the kids got to wear their Halloween costumes to school. Some of the teachers had fun too.

Ali's been reading a lot of manga books and one of them is about a witch named Majoko. Ali is her friend Majohra who is also a witch.

Let the Wild Rumpus start!

I love their tails, and so do they. Sam and his friend Aiden, who's a dinosaur, argue over whose tail is bigger.

Spencer and his buddy Vincent. They didn't want to hang with us and told us to stay back -jk ;0).Here's our little trick-or-treating group. I was amazed at how long Sam hung in there. I thought we'd be done 1/2 hour into it. Notice he already took off one of his "claw" hands in the picture. Not too long after he told me he wanted to take off the crown. By about the 6th house he pushed off the Max head part because it was too hot (it was such a great evening). After a few more houses he wanted his costume off. I told him we were done trick-or-treating then. He left his costume on. We kept going and going. It was slow because he was so curious about all the scary things around in people's yards. Ali was quick with her buddy Ellie. Spencer called as we were heading home and said he was done -probably did twice as much in the same time. They all got so much candy, and tomorrow's fast Sunday -that ought to be fun.

This was a really fun year for Halloween. Hmmm ...what are we going to be next year?