Halloween Fun

Eli was SO excited about trick or treating. We talked about it all day, and finally it was 4 p.m. – time to venture out. It was a very windy, cold day, but Eli was ready to go. Our first stop was next door at Sasha and Oliver’s house. He loves the red pig near the front door! He had fun seeing their costumes and getting his first piece of candy.

Charlie had fun chewing on the outside of the candy bars.

Here’s excited Eli, running to our next destination:

There was a NU football game going on just down the street – one of our neighbors makes quite a bit selling parking spaces on their lawn ($20/car adds up fast!). The fun thing about yesterday’s game was that they had fireworks at the end (I guess for Halloween?). Eli loved watching them from our back yard.

My family came down to see the boys in their costumes, so Davey and my dad walked around with us while my mom passed out candy at our house.

I was glad the boys had such warm costumes! Charlie was a trooper.

At one of the houses, there was a couple who just moved here from Australia. The wife was out videotaping the trick or treating in the neighborhood. She was very sweet and got excited when she saw that Eli was a kangaroo.

Seeing all of the fun decorations made me feel like our house was pretty boring. No huge spiders on our windows…

We didn’t last too long – I think we were out for about an hour and went to about 15 houses. (Eli was walking VERY slow at the beginning) Afterward, I tried to get a picture of the boys together, but Charlie was ready to get out of the cold and Eli was being very silly.

Next week is Davey’s 25th birthday, so we celebrated last night with tasty pizza from Homemade Pizza (love that place – I always get the caramelized onion and sausage pizza w/out cheese). We finished things off with a chocolate cake. We got Davey some CDs (he loves country music) and an antique bowling pin, since he loves bowling too.

Later that night, we went to a fun Halloween party while my parents and Davey stayed at our house with the boys. Ben and I were foosball players (notice the poles in our shirts? I borrowed my clothes from a teenager in the ward who plays soccer). There were lots of creative costumes – the Octomom and her donor, a pair of m&ms, the Donner party, a trio of sushi rolls, stick figures (they used electrical tape on white outfits to make a guy and a girl), etc. One of the hosts makes movies, so we got to watch one of them, Loon (the link takes you to a trailer), and it definitely made us jump! I am so not a scary movie girl, but this wasn’t SO bad that it gave me nightmares.

It was nice to get out, so thanks for the babysitting!