Halloween 2008

We had a pretty fun Halloween this year. The kids were super excited to get dressed up for school on Friday. For a split second when I dropped them off I found myself wondering if maybe I had assumed they would dress up and they were in fact supposed to be in uniforms. I was relieved to see a ghost climb out of the car in front of us and sent my little fairy and batman off to party at school for the day. (Couldn't find my camera that morning.) I spent the day getting things ready for our Trunk-or-Treat party that night.

We headed over to the party early so we could help set up and then settled in for the night. The kids had SO much fun and were completely overloaded on candy, of course. We hired a taquiza (kind of like a taco buffet) to come feed all of us and we rented a bounce house for the kids. We learned that we have too many kids between us all now and that next time we definitely need TWO bounce houses to accomodate them all.

This is just a random picture of Guthrie and Sully upside down - at the request of G.
Guthrie in his batman costume (sans mask) in the bounce house. There were so many little kids that we kept having to kick the big kids out and he eventually gave up and played Indiana Jones with his little friend.

Addie and her "bestest friend" Halle.

My friend told her husband that he absolutely could NOT wear a beer shirt to the Halloween party because it was a "Mormon church!" He layered over it. She had me ROLLING on the ground when she told me that because my VERY MORMON husband was wearing a Gallo Beer shirt.

This was right after Sullivan woke up from his late nap in the car. He was a little disoriented for a while. It took a couple of pieces of candy to get him in the mood to party.

I can't believe our last Mexican Halloween has come and gone! Our first year the kids and I went home for a little visit and enjoyed trick-or-treating American style. The next year Brooke hosted a great Halloween party for all of our friends here. The third year WE hosted a Halloween party. Rumor has it that it was enjoyable, but I'll admit I was just stressed. This year we learned from past mistakes and picked a neutral location so everyone could have fun. The LDS church worked out great because it actually has a parking lot (rare here) for trunk-or-treating and we had plenty of room to roam, visit and play.

On a different note, I think we finally settled on which hospital in New York we are going to be requesting. Its definitely one of the more expensive areas, but they're all expensive and the difference is minimal. The schools seem to be the best near one hospital and we hope we can talk a few of our LDS friends into joining us so we can maybe have some people we know in our ward. We'll see how that plays out. :)