Our Halloween

Due to Halloween being on Sunday this year the festivities were moved to saturday. This means that Halloween and my birthday were celebrated together. So....it was one fun day!! The day started with Reed making homemade pancakes and put a candle in my pancake and the kids and Reed sang happy birthday to me. Too fun!

Each of the kids had to clean their own pumpkin this year. They thought it was cool that they could do it by themselves. Then onto the carving of designs.

Abbie carved a spider. Isaac carved his own designed jack-o-lantern face. Kaden carved the batman logo. Reed carved a hunting dog sitting in the duck swamps and I carved the little yellow guy from despicable me. I think they are too cute.

We went to the church carnival and the kids LOVED the cake walk. Reed and I didn't know if we were ever going to move onto another carnival game because it took a while for all three kids to win a prize. 

Isaac's favorite was the fishing pond. He kept winning light flashers to wear on Halloween night.  

Kaden winning his popcorn ball at the cake walk. 

Soups and Chili's with breadsticks for lunch. 

Trunk or Treat after lunch. 

Each of the kids chose their costumes this year. This was the first time we didn'thave a theme. Kinda sad that they are that old that they don't want to be a theme but, fun that they got to each choose their own. 

The kids trunk-or-treating!

After the rain finally stopped the kids were ready to go trick-or-treating to the neighbors. It's a tradition so we just had to buy extra candy this year. 

Kaden carved the bat...to go with his batman costume.

We sat our pumpkins outside and lit them to glow for Halloween. 

Isaac's pumpkin is in front. It was his own jack-o-lantern face design. 

This is Reed's lab puppy who Isaac said looks like a puppy on it's own island. 

This is my despicable me little yellow guy. 

The pumpkins are lit and the kids are ready to go trick-or-treating. 

Glow sticks in hand. 

After quite a few houses Kaden and I headed home to hand out candy. His legs were tired and I guess he had enough candy because he was happy to help. 

Isaac finally coming home with a bucket of candy. 

Once all the kids were home they all helped hand out candy. 

The kids friends came by and they had a lot of fun giving candy when they came to trick-or-treat. 

Abbie's spider pumpkin. She was a spider witch for halloween. Must be a theme with her this year. 

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Such a fun halloween. Almost was rained out but once the rain stopped it was a wonderful evening of spooks and treats.

Syracuse City Annual Pumpkin Walk

Our family was originally planning on going to the pumpkin walk on friday. Our neighbors and friends invited us to go with them a day earlier on thursday which was opening night of the pumpkin walk. Reed was called off from work and so we took them up on their offer and went to the pumpkin walk. It was CRAZY!!! We actually ended up spending over an hour in line before we even got to the entrance. The actual pumpkin walk was HUGE!! There were hundreds of pumpkins that were carved by the community.

This is at the entrance. Pretty cute little characters.

These two were my favorite.

The police force was dressed up at Star Wars Characters. The kids got pictures by EVERY different set. Isaac was in Star Wars Heaven.

Storm Trooper and Captain Rex (Honestly, I didn't know some of these characters but, Isaac sure did!)

Here is the official entrance.

I love this one because it says "neighborhood witch". I thought it was cute.

The kids took time to look at every pumpkin. The walk was slow enough that you could really enjoy each one. Here's some of our favorites.

I wish this picture had turned out better. You can vaguely see Joseph Smith and Presiden Monson. They were SO COOL! Too bad my picture didn't.

This was one of the boy's favorites.

The kids all thought this one was REALLY scary.

On the corners of the walk there were TONS of pumpkins. I couldn't believe how many pumpkins had been carved by the community.

Some tables were set up with special THEMED displays.

Kaden loved this one from Toy Story.

I loved the little guys from the movie despicable me.

Isn't he SO cute! I thought they were so funny in the movie.

This is what Isaac is being for Halloween. Optimus Prime.

The sesame street gang.

Fun Monster.

Isaac loved the one of the video game control. Shocking...REALLY!!

This is what Kaden is going to be for Halloween. BATMAN!!

Some of the pumpkins were so intricate....they really spent some time.

I had never seen a pumpkin like this before...pretty creative.

Who doesn't love Oscar the Grouch!?!

At the end of the pumpkin walk the Syracuse Royalty was handing out a little bag of candy to the kids.

Althought the wait was really long....the kids really enjoyed looking at all the pumpkins. This is an event we will have to make an annual event for our family. By the time we got home...the kids went right to bed. Not too bad for the parents either!

The local police force dressed up as various Star Wars Characters....they were REALLY cool looking and Isaac wanted a picture by all of them. Kaden was a little intimidated by the guy in the black mask.

Great Evening and even greater ideas for pumpkin carving. Although...I don't know if we'll spend as much time as some of those people spent on some of those pumpkins...they were pretty detailed. Pretty cool!!