Halloween 2011

This was the second Halloween at our new home.  There were a few more kids who were trick-or-treating this year at our house.  I think this is due to the new street lights on our street that make it a brighter place to walk as well as a few more houses that have been built closer to our street.  A couple of days before the holiday we went to the kids party at the school.  It was a Harry Potter themed party.  The gym was over crowded with parents and kids changing their money out for whatever currency they use in the book.  The money was then used to buy hot dogs and drinks to help fund raising for the school.  Afterwards there were different activities placed in classrooms in the school.  The one the kids liked was potion making where they got to make slime they could take home and play with.

On the actual holiday the kids started the day with a costume parade at their school.  We got to see everyone and the creative costumes that some people had come up with.  After the parade we picked up the pumpkin, pizza, and root beer for dinner that night.  When everyone got home they were excited and hyper due to treats they had already enjoyed at school parties that day.  It was warm enough this year that we were able to go out on the deck and carve the pumpkin so it would not be as messy inside.  After the pumpkin got put on the front porch and everyone filled up with pizza they got their costumes on.  This year we had two captains, a witch/ballerina/princess, and a princess.  Through the HOA some of the families in the neighborhood did some bigger things than just hand out candy.  Some of them included hot dogs, hot chocolate, popcorn, and a haunted house.  All of them had a great time, picked up a ton of candy, and were monsters the next day when they had to wake up for school.