Halloween

The day started with a parade at the school for Makenzie. As you can see she is Wednesday from the Addam's Family and as she came up the isle she glared at people and stared right into their eyes loving being this character. Parents were talking about the scary little girl coming and pointed at her. What a proud moment for a mom. Since Kendyl is in afternoon Kinder, her parade was later that day. Kendyl didn't want to put on her costume yet, but still wanted to look creepy for her sister's parade so she attached a spider to her hair and put on a scarf that she made out of Halloween fabric scraps and Karalenn wore a witch's hat. :) To the right is Kendyl in her parade a few hours later looking like a cute little Corpse Bride.




















The girls both had parties at their school that Karalenn helped at. She was running back and forth helping in stations and playing Halloweeny songs on the guitar. Here are their class pictures. This first picture is Kendyl's class and underneath is Makenzie's. Makenzie's teacher told Karalenn at the party that Kenzie had been creeping her out all day just staring at her. What a funny kid.

Right after school was our ward trunk-or-treat. And here's our creepy family. Seth is of course a most fabulous Frankenstein and Karalenn (in case you can't tell because most people couldn't :) is Igor.
This is basically what Makenzie walked around all day acting like. I wonder where she gets this from? maybe....

..... him? We have many many pictures of Seth in various Frankenstein-y poses.

At the trunk-or-treat party Seth got mostly two reactions......

The tough guys wanted to challenge him,

but mostly people just stared at him

like this- which of course made him

walk around more scary, staring at kids.

Here's a fun picture of some of our "red-neck" buddies at the party. They were hilarious. We decorated our trunk with pumpkins and candy and it was properly raided by little ghouls and boys.
After an hour we discovered something mischievous about our little Wednesday. She would come back to the car and pretend to check on how we were doing and then run off again. Well as it turned out she was actually sneaking and putting her stashes of candy in the back seat making her bucket empty again. Then she went around to all the cars and got MORE candy! Sneaky! That way people thought she was there for the first time- or so she thought. It's a little hard to forget that a creepy kid has come to your trunk 3 times! Look how proud that little stinker is. :)

After the trunk-or-treat party we went to a section of the neighborhood where most of the neighbors agreed to do a Harry Potter theme. There were 15-20 houses all decorated in some way to be Harry Potterish. For example there was an Azacaban, Ollivander's Wand Shop, Gringotts, The Daily Prophet, Umbridge's Office, Three Broomsticks, Platform 9 3/4, Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes, St. Mungo's Hospital, etc. It was amazing! They passed out Maruader's Maps of the neighborhood of a guide to find the different houses and marked the one's not participating in it in grey so you could know they were muggle dwellings. What a cool group of neighbors! Here's a collage of some of the photos from that.

After hours of parties and trick-or-treating Karalenn was BEAT! She sat on the porch and passed out candy while Seth and the girls went out for an hour more of trick-or-treating if you can believe it. They are nuts! :)
And no Halloween would be complete without a group of neighborhood teenagers causing a ruckus. At one point Karalenn went across the street to take a photo of her neighbors for them and while doing so a group that had just passed and got candy from her saw her distracted and ran back up to her porch raiding the rest. She may have been tired, but she had some fire left in her. She scolded them a good one and most of the kids gave back most of what they had taken.

We drifted off to sleep filled with way too much sugar and tired bodies. What a fun day!