Our Month of Halloween Activities!

The night before Halloween, I made a casserole in a pumpkin. (It is the one on the pan). If you go to Holly's Blog there is a link to another blog, a cooking blog. That is were I got the recipe. Ian loved it. And since it wasn't chicken nuggets or hotdogs, the girls wouldn't eat it. Oh well... at least it was cute and festive.



Instead of dressing in Halloween costumes at school, the kindergarteners had a Scarecrow Parade. Reagan was so embarrassed to wear the headband. And after talking to a few moms, she definitely wasn't the only one.

Jenna looking cute at Reagan's Scarecrow Parade. She had so much fun dancing around while we were waiting for the kids to start.

Jenna helped me make pumpkin cookies one day when Reagan was at school. It was the first time that I really let her help. Can I just say that was the most messy cooking experience ever. But she had a blast.

Halloween night we went to a party hosted by some members of our ward. They live on the street right next to us. We had fun getting to know everyone that lives close by (literally in our neighborhood) that are LDS. After eating and playing we went Trick or Treating in our neighborhood with the whole gang. It was quite a crowd. The streets were filled with kids. It was like nothing I had seen before. We are so happy that our kids can grow up in a place like this.

As you can tell from the picture the girls were both black cats for the night (Reagan stole my ear and tail--my usual Halloween costume).

The Saturday before Halloween, we went Trunk or Treating with a bunch of people from our ward and stake. If you can believe, our stake does not support Halloween activities. So our ward did a Chili and Square Dancing Night. There was only one ward in our stake that did a Halloween Activity, "the rebellious ward"! :) I love that!

So the LDS playgroup from our ward organized a Trunk or Treat. And put it on in the parking lot of Reg's school. It was a lot of fun. Supposedly, the Ward chili thing was pretty awesome. Bounce House, games, live band, etc, etc. We didn't go because Ian was out of town and it started late. And honestly, I didn't want to handle to kids at a mini carnival with people I just semi know.

But like I said before, the Trunk or Treat thing was fun. Jenna has discovered the joy of Halloween!