It is Halloween!

Halloween! So much fun with kids! I love that they have so many fun chances to dress up and party. We started out with our ward Halloween carnival (which Ben missed, traveling for work). I was a little worried about wrangling all three with the chaos and all that, but it went really smoothly. Partly, because a few baby-lovers in the ward wanted to hold Davis, so I went around and did the games with the big kids.  The next night we had the trunk or treat at my parents ward which was also fun!

This year I wanted to use stuff we had/could borrow instead of buying Halloween costumes. Hudson, wonderfully, wanted to be a SWAT guy, which is what Chase was last year. I decided to have Davis be a jack-o-lantern and just make it a tradition for all my babes to wear this little costume their first Halloween. Chase was the hard one. He had a hard time deciding what to be, when I presented the idea of wearing his adventure vest and being an explorer! He loved that idea! We already had the vest and borrow the hat from Nana and he had his costume! They all looked so cute and loved dressing up!

 I love seeing these pics of all my babies side by side. Such cute little pumpkins!

We carved pumpkins for FHE on Monday night. The boys gutted their own pumpkins this year- Hudson loved it, Chase was grossed out. They both designed their own pumpkins, Hudson's is Dracula. Davis was super happy watching it all going on. We lined them up for this picture and Davis got really fussy until Ben grabbed the tiny pumpkin from the porch to put in front of him, and then he was all smiles! He just wanted to be part of the fun!

 Then it was finally Halloween! The kids got to dress up for school. Hudson had a party at preschool and Chase's school does a Halloween parade, which Davis and I went to watch! Then later in the afternoon I got to go help with Chase's class party. I was in charge of reading Halloween books to the kids (which Chase carefully selected from our collection that morning). It was so fun to get to be in his class.

 Then it was FINALLY time to trick or treat! We went up to Nana and Papa's first, then Ben took the boys around our neighborhood. Davis and Hudson lasted about 45 minutes, and then came home. Ben took Chase out for round two after that. He was so into it, running from house to house. Ben said Hudson was much more laid back about it. And Davis just loved being included and seeing all the fun from the stroller.

 I found this is Chase's backpack and I thought it was the cutest thing ever. It says "It explores (the) jungle. And it has a weird hat. What am I?" I LOVE this stage of spelling. It's the best.