Halloween Fun!

We have been busy having lots of Halloween fun! This year we had a Kitty Cat (Emmie...she was supposed to be Harley Quinn but our order got lost and didn't make it in time.), Unicorn (Ellie..my favorite costume...we used one of Emmie's old dance recital costumes and added a unicorn headband and tail), Elsa (Ruthie), and Spiderman (JP...who at any given moment was telling people he was batman...guess he temporarily got bored with Spiderman).

A few weeks ago we went to the Methodist church near our house to pick out pumpkins. The kids LOVE doing this every year!

JP tried to rake up all their hay lol!

A few days later we decorated said pumpkins. Ellie opted to do a few melting crayon pumpkin and everyone else painted. Ellie's pumpkin turned out really neat but it took FOREVER to melt the crayons.

The Saturday before Halloween we made a quick trip to Summerville to attend a wedding. Earlier in the day Paul's parents took us to see the Scarecrows on the Square. To me it was very similar to homecoming floats but with local businesses and schools. It was really neat and there were lots of really creative ideas!

The Edwards boys...Paul, JP, and Blake

PaPa and GiGi with their little JP Toto

This was my favorite! I'm not sure if you can see it but there is a Mousie!

On the 30th we went to Trick or Treat with the Greeks at USC. The sororities and fraternities have trick or treating and games outside at the Greek Village. It's a fun, free event that we attended for the first time last year and my kids were SO excited about going back this year! We picked up Emma when we got there and met Evelyn and Ainsley down there. We also met up with the Love's at the last minute and trick or treated with them for a bit. (Their little boy Brian Thomas is one of JP's best buddies.)

Brian Thomas, JP, Emma, Emmie, Ellie, Evelyn, Ruthie, Ainsley, Peyton (not pictured: Ella who came later and Lily Paige who was in the stroller)

We had to get a picture of the unicorn and cat tails.

We ran into one of Ruthie's preschool friends, Sloane. Cinderella and Elsa were excited to see each other!

Love these friends so much!

Halloween morning Ruthie had her Halloween party at school. She was VERY concerned about there not being food/cupcakes at the party that she could eat so I told her I would come in and bring her a cupcake to eat in case she couldn't have the one at the party. JP and I loved getting to go hang out in her classroom and JP got to trick or treat with her!

Spiderman (and a few other siblings) was sure he was part of the class!

Halloween night Emma and her mom came over and brought pizza (including a super fabulous pumpkin pizza!) and we ate and then trick or treated in our neighborhood. Paul had to work so he didn't make it home...which means I now have 3 bags of candy sitting in my house that were supposed to be handed out to trick or treaters!

We had SO much fun trick or treating and it was extra fun because JP was really into Halloween this year. 

Funny moment of the night: One of our neighbors had left out a bowl of candy. It was all gone when JP got up there so he just picked up the bowl and walked on. It took me a minute to stop laughing so I could tell him to put the bowl back! I'm still laughing about it today!

JP also latched on to a Hershey's bar about halfway through the neighborhood and refused to put it down. He carried that chocolate bar (still the package fortunately) the rest of the time in his hot sweaty little hand. It was a mushy mess when we got home and fortunately he decided not to eat it last night so we didn't have a massive chocolate mess!

The kids got quite the haul of candy and had a lot of fun!