Halloween

We had a medium bit of fun this Halloween. It would have been a LOT of fun to have gone and seen our families.

Tom was asked to help judge a costume contest at the school on Friday night. Chalyse dressed up as a bear and Ellora as a monkey, but because Tom was a judge the girls weren't able to be in the contest, but that's okay. There were a lot of really creative costumes. Here are a couple of our favorites.





Geisha and Inupiat Barbie

























It was a little disappointing after the contest, though. We had about an hour before the carnival started, and so we went home for dinner. Chalyse had woken up early and didn't get a nap all day, so when she fell asleep on the way home, we tried to keep her asleep. She only slept for about an hour, though, and when she woke up she was very grumpy. We decided that it would probably be best if we didn't go to the carnival, because she probably would have cried the whole time.

On Halloween, we carved faces into little pumpkins. We had gotten a big pumpkin to carve, but it rotted before we had a chance to carve it, and the store only had them for about a week. Here are our mini jack-o-lanterns.


After we carved our pumpkins, we made homemade pizza. It was really yummy.

We dressed the girls up in their costumes and went trick-or-treating to some of our friends. Chalyse kept trying to take her costume off. We went to five different houses and only 1 person was home. Then we took the girls around the 5-plex where we live and found 2 other people home. Everyone gave Chalyse a handful of candy, so it was okay.

We came home and invited some people from the 5-plex over for a movie and games. We had a lot of fun.