Halloween Festivities

A few days before Halloween, we went up to Gardner Village to see the witches. Bennett fell asleep on the drive, so he wasn’t as excited about them as I thought he would be, but he still had fun.

  

The Saturday before Halloween, Nate was out of town, so I decorated our trunk and took the kids to our ward’s trunk or treat. After going around and getting candy in his bag, Bennett raided the leftovers in our give-away-candy bucket – apparently he didn’t think he had enough. It was also funny to watch him pick out candy – any time there was a bowl of little candy bars, if they let him pick which one he wanted, he always picked out the Reese’s because they are orange (he doesn’t like chocolate and is “peanut intolerant”, so Nate and I have lots of Reese’s to eat).

    

And the final celebration – trick or treating on Halloween. We decided to go up to our old neighborhood because we figured it would be more fun for Nate and I since we know most of the people, and Bennett would get candy either way. It was fun to see people – between the houses we went to and seeing other people trick-or-treating, we were able to see a lot of our friends and neighbors. After spending hours making the boys’ costumes, I was glad you could at least tell what they were (although the mitt was a little questionable – that one was hard!). There were things I would do differently if I were to make them again, but I’m guessing I won’t have to make them again :)