Happy Halloween 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
Well, with Jerome's back, we have been laying low for a couple of weeks, so we relaxed today and carved pumpkins during the day, but it was the evening that was extremely busy (but fun... we'll explain down below)
Here are pictures of the day...

Some pictures of carving the pumpkin. Dayton is ready with his spoon to help Daddy scoop out the pumpkin stuff. Dayton actually asked me if we could make pumpkin pie out of our pumpkins. Since I've never even baked a pie, I told him, let's try the pumpkin pie stuff in a can first and see if I can do that before we try on a real pumpkin!

Here's Amara getting ready to help Daddy. This will be the first time Amara put her hands in a pumpkin... :o)

She didn't have her hands in the pumpkins long, she wiped them off on her pants... very quickly!! LOL! Here she is watching Dayton and Daddy clean out her small pumpkin. I like this picture with her crouching down with her hands on her knees... she's really watching the festivities. :o)

Here's Dayton in the house in his Transformer's costume... he was Optimus Prime.

Here he is posing outside. Here we were on our way to St. Lukes. Grandma and Grandpa (Jerome's parents) were watching the house for trick-or-treaters, so they watched Amara for us as well while we took Dayton to St. Lukes. I'm really glad we did, it was busy!We were going to head out there before heading back home and going through our neighborhood.

I brought the camera in at St. Lukes, but I didn't get any pictures. I think I was so overwhelmed over all the activities there, I didn't even think to get pictures! (Darn). Anyway, we had so much fun there, I can't believe it... it was really an amazing time.

We got there and they were having hay rides and "trunk-or-treating" outside. There were volunteers that decorated the trunk of their car up and had candy where the kids could trick-or-treat out of the trunks... it was hysterical! I've never done that, so it was a fun experience.

Then... we went inside! OH WOW!! The place was PACKED!! I went in and talked to them, I didn't know what to do. They had tables set up to eat dinner. They gave us tickets for the dinner (this was free). It was a hot dog, baked beans, chips, and apple juice. I think that was it, we ate before hand, so we didn't eat, that's just what we saw. Then there was a bouncy for the kids to jump. They had numbers all over the floor so they a version of a cake walk (no music, you just stand on a number when they do the drawing). WE WON!!! Dayton actually was standing on the number two (on purpose) and I was talking to Kaitlyn's mom when they called out that they were going to draw again. SO... I went over to stand by Dayton and they called out number 2!! Dayton picked out a plate of cupcakes!! It was awesome!!! I also saw an old co-worker I've known for about 10 years. We used to van-pool together and I remember him when they were trying to have a baby... their baby was there too... she's 9!!!

I stayed to catch up with them a bit (I haven't seen them for almost 2 years) Jerome took Dayton upstairs to play the games. Brooke and Kaitlyn went too... Dayton came back and told me how much fun he had!! We were there longer than we had planned, but it was an amazing time!

Here's Amara and Daddy getting ready to go out and trick-or-treat in our neighborhood! (We didn't have a pail for Amara for 2 reasons. 1. She couldn't carry a bucket and walk and 2. She's too little for candy, it felt weird taking candy from people... it would just be more candy in the house we really don't need so it worked out great).

Seriously... she was so dang cute. Since she didn't have a bag, she would be in the back of the kids and when the kids would get the candy, she would go to the front and say "Hi" and then turn around and walk away. It was funny!! I was saying next year she'll be confused when she has a bag and people try to give her candy. She was so happy just walking around and saying Hi to everyone. It was awesome!!

Here's the back of her costume!

Here's a picture of Brooke, Dayton and Amara getting ready to go out and trick-or-treat. Ryan also came along, but he came after we had left, so I didn't get a picture of him (sorry).

Anyway, we had tons of fun, it was a great Halloween!!!