Halloween

The holiday festivities lasted several days in our house, starting on Sunday. The girls got dressed up in their pumpkin Sunday best for Stake Conference!

 That evening, we carved pumpkins. Or at least started to.

The evening came to an abrupt end when this happened:

 We finished the next night for FHE. We went simple and easy this year. A BYU "Y" for me, and a Mickey Mouse outline for Lance and Reagan (no pictures, good things it's easy to imagine).

 Then the big day itself rolled around. Lance had been up most of the night before working on a deadline, so he stayed home and worked from home that day. So nice! After a breakfast of ghost bananas, orange-celery pumpkins, and jack-o-lantern pumpkins, Reagan was off to gymnastics! They asked the kids to wear their costumes that week, but since Reagan's flower costume wasn't really compatible with climbing, tumbling, and jumping, we had to improvise. She went as Sleeping Cinderella!

 Daryn was so excited for her first major holiday!

 Finally, after naptime, it was time to get the costumes on!

 What a cute pair!

Reagan had to show off her whole costume

 And Daryn was willing to humor me too!

 Then Meagan and Grace got here, and the girls were ready to go!

 Reagan mastered it quickly, and squeaked out "Trick or treat!" and "Stank you!" and every door!

 Lance and Daryn stayed at home to pass out candy until we were almost done, then joined us for a few minutes.

 And we lost Daryn's pumpkin somewhere on our street. So sad :(

We were done by 7, and right when we got back Stuart and Genevieve and the kids got here for our little Halloween dinner/party. The kids all ate some candy and watched "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" (a classic), while the adults talked and got the food ready. A yummy dinner complete with chili and mummy hot dogs! It was so fun to hang out and see everyone's cute costumes, and the kids went to bed tuckered out. A very successful holiday :)