Happy Halloween

We had quite the week of Halloween festivities. Alyssa got to dress up for her Library storytime on Wednesday. Then she got to have a Halloween Party at Preschool on Thursday. On Friday, we headed over to downtown St. Charles for trick or treating. The little shops on Main Street gave out candy from 3-5pm. Here are the kids dressed and excited to go get candy.

I was very grateful that Danny got away from work early to join us since it was a lot more crowded than we expected and parking was hard to find. He ended up dropping us off so we could get started. Ashley also got tired of walking about halfway through so Danny and I ended up taking turns holding Ashley until we decided we had had enough.

You can't tell from the picture above, but we ended up having to wait in quite a few lines just to get a piece of candy because it was so crowded. The kids found this bench during one of the waits which gave me the opportunity to snap a couple of pictures.

On Saturday we had our Ward Trunk or Treat. There were games inside the church for the first 30 minutes and then the trick or treating after that. This was the night we saved for getting Alyssa fully dressed. Here is our pretty princess.

She loved being able to wear lipstick and blush so much that she asked for it before church on Sunday. The black hairspray worked okay, but we had second thoughts later that night when we started washing it out. I don't think I would do it again inside of the house, because almost every surface in our bathroom was covered in black dust by the time the night was over and Danny had to wash Alyssa's hair like 5 times before it was back to normal (that is quite a task for a girl who cries if water goes near her eyes or ears). We found the M&M costume for Ashley and thought it was perfect for her because she is a little chocoholic.

The girls enjoyed the trunk or treat and were so excited to get more candy and see all of their friends. Here they are at the end of the night.

On Sunday, we decided to invite a few families over for our own Halloween celebration in order to keep our girls from being sad about not trick or treating like all of the neighborhood kids. We had dinner and then had some kid games. First was potato sack races. They loved this and wanted to do it numerous times.

The second game was Halloween Picture Bingo, but I was the caller, so I didn't get any pictures of it. The third game was Bobbin for Donuts. It was a lot harder than it looks. Alyssa tried really hard to do it without using her hands. I helped her a bit after she couldn't get close to getting a bite. Finally she figured out how to go from underneath and had a little more success.
Ashley just dug in.

After the games, we let the kids play upstairs so that the adults could visit. We found these two in the toybox and all of the toys outside on the floor.

It was a fun and busy week. We sent Danny off to Philidelphia around 6:30 this morning after a late night for the kids which will make for two, make that three, grumpy girls here at home today. We will look forward to seeing him on Wednesday.