Halloween

Happy Halloween! I have said this before, Halloween used to barely be on my radar, but now...We talk about it about 9 months of the year.  Okay, who am I kidding, we still talk about ghosts, zombies, and scary stuff all year long!  They love it!  

Ruby and Owen got invited to their first "drop off" party.  It was a Halloween party at a friend of their's from school up the street, Emerson. They were besides themselves with excitement that I was going to leave, and so was mom. :)

 Ruby put together her own costume all by herself.  I helped her a little with her wand, but not much.  I made Owen's skeleton costume.  He picked it and then we looked online for ideas about how to make it happen.  It turned out pretty fun - even glows and can be reused for skiing as the black 

outfit was a thermal pair we found at the store.  Nice.

We went on the Heber Creeper for their Halloween event.  Ruby and Owen went through the "haunted car" about 10 times, working up to a run through by themselves.  We saw dancers perform Thriller, and even a "shoot out" performance.  It was good fun, plus, I got this photo.  We have a lot of three year old angst that really thrives in the Halloween atmosphere.  I just hope they are getting it all out before adolescence hits.

Owen has been making "experiments" with witches brews all month.  He LOVES mixing.  This picture does not even begin to capture the disaster that he creates in his bathroom, which did end in a clogged sink...but it never drained well anyway, so whatever.  The good news....

I don't mind a mess, as long as he cleans up.  All I have to say is, "Owen, can you make it good as new again?" and he jumps in, gloves and all, and cleans the counters, sink and stool.  He really does a good job, too.  Amazing.

Our pumpkins

Ruby wanted to carve her own, so the stabs were her attempt at that.  Mom helped connect the dots where she wanted them to. :)

Mom volunteered at their Halloween party at school.  I think they had read a book about volunteering or something because the LOVED that I was "volunteering" and got to help with their games and parade.  

Trick-or-treating on Main St in Park City.  So many people, so much fun.

We went with Kirbys and met up with the gang below.  However, once our group met the group of people behind us, we all lost each other and did our best to keep track of the kids.

After Main St we got to go to a Halloween Party at Chuck, Rebecca, and Griffins, complete with a dance party in a room with black lights and lots of highlighters for drawing on the walls (and masks).  They were about to paint.  What a great idea!