Halloween

 Halloween on a Wednesday makes for a very long week for teachers, but it is what it is and I am glad that it only comes once a year!

Here is Caden's kindergarten class--just the boys above and the whole class below!

Thankfully, Layne and Brynn were able to come out to school and watch the Halloween parade and went to Caden's classroom and took a few pictures for this mom who had to entertain 1st graders!

  Here is Caden's kindergarten teacher Mrs. Wiles--the 3 kindergarten teachers were the 3 little pigs and Mrs. Wiles is showing on her Ipad that she built her house out of sticks!  They were super cute costumes!

 Brynn stopped by on her way back to daycare with daddy to say hello to Stephanie--one of my co-teachers--they were both dressed as witches, so we needed a witch picture--Brynn LOVED Steph's gloves with long, sparkly fingernails!

 Hello witches!

Some mommy time with my kids--witch Brynn with Defender C Mommy--Defender C is part of our reading pathways program!

 

 

  Bat Caden with Defender C mom--Layne made Caden's bat costume--Caden has wanted to be a bat for about 3 months straight--I found this simple one to make out of of an umbrella or there was one to buy--he picked this one--super easy to put on--a hooded sweatshirt that zipped up--he was happy so it worked for me!

Rewind a couple days as the Sunday before Halloween, we got together with our friends the Weber family and ate a yummy supper and decorated pumpkins.  

Brynn wanted pink and purple--with sparkles--so we picked out paint at Hobby Lobby and this girl worked for almost 30 minutes painting her pumpkin--I was so proud of her!

 

  

 Target had a whole table of decorate your pumpkin kits--Caden loved the Angry Bird pumpkin--so he and Layne worked together to create his Angry Bird pumpkin.

Jill made a glittery Jack O' Lantern face on her pumpkin.

 

I chose to just decorate mine as well--Brynn and I picked out sparkly purple jewels, glittery purple ribbon, and zebra print ribbon for my pumpkin!

Brynn's pumpkin--all finished but very wet!

3 year old Jack painted for 5 minutes and was done, but

 he got some of his favorite colors on there!

Brynn's pumpkin---dry and ready for display with her zebra ribbon on top!

 

Caden's fun Angry Bird pumpkin--with his Angry Bird shirt!

Our pumpkin display--I was a little sad that Layne did not do one of his masterpieces, but he did make us some yummy pumpkin seeds--sometimes there is just not enough time in the day!

 

Fast Forward back to Halloween!

After school that day, Caden and I left right away to pick up Brynn and go straight to Layne's work.

K-tron employees are awesome--they spoil the kids with tons of candy and it is fun to see everyone's kiddos all dressed up!

 Love this picture--looks like they are having a great conversation!

Caden the bat--age 5; Brynn the witch--age 3

 

Happy Halloween one and all!

As soon as we left Layne's work at 4:45, the kids and I ran home to drop some things off and pick up candy for church and then headed start back to our church for Trick or Trunking.  This is one of my favorite outreach programs that our church does--this prego mama had too much going on that day to get a trunk ready, but Layne was determined to decorate our van--so he was in charge this year and created a haunted van tunnel through our van--most kids loved it and Caden ate it up!  My parents came and mom took Brynn around to trick or treat, but Caden did not leave the van--he and my dad stayed and helped Layne with the van--Caden loved making scary noises or leading kids through the dark tunnel.  I went on a food run and then sat in a chair and watched all the action--it was a beautiful day and I think we had around 300 kids come trick-or-trunking at our church!

Finally at 7:00--we said good-bye to our church friends and to Grandma and Grandpa and headed home to trick or treat at a few neighbors' houses before letting the kids have ONE more piece of candy and calling it a night at 9:00.

What a day--and again, thank goodness it only comes once a year!