Halloween

Holy Moly!!!!  Christmas is around the corner and I still haven't posted about Halloween!!!!!  We had quite a few Halloween events that are now going to get wrapped into one post since I'm on such a time crunch!!!!  (And I lost all of the Halloween and Pumpkin carving pictures in the "crash"!!!)  I was able to pull a few from Facebook, but no originals without the collage and none of the actual carving fun! 

 

We went with the most traditional Halloween costume theme this year...a witch, a ghost, a bat, and a pumpkin!  I was pushing for Pirates or Superheroes but Hailey wanted nothing to do with that! 

Fall was here and gone before we knew it!!!!

 We had our first snow BEFORE Halloween!!!!  Thankfully by Halloween night it had warmed up a bit!!!

 Hailey had a function at her school one evening the week of Halloween...A Harvest Moon Reading...6 classrooms were set up with different teachers reading books and we rotated around. 

 The bowling alley also had something one night...free bowling, face painting, t-shirt screen printing where you could choose your own character, and LOTS of candy!

 AND Hailey's class had a Fall Fest party...

 Pumpkin seed counting, hula hoop toss around a pumpkin, face painting, crafts, and food!

 Luke crashed toward the end of the party and we were going to leave before Host Nation started (German), but Kai plopped herself down on the carpet with the rest of the kids and the German teacher said that she could stay! 

 We did a few crafts at home too....Cursive name skeletons, vampire apple teeth, and peanut butter cracker spiders!

 Mummies!!!!!

And finally Trick-or-Treating!!!!!!  Leevi stayed home with Luke to pass out candy and I took the girls around.  It was like something you'd see in the movies...streets FILLED to the max with kids!!!!  Germans don't celebrate Halloween, so ALL of the Americans in this area come onto post...either Vogelweh or Ramstein...I refused to spend a ton of money on candy (although we still spent a small fortune I felt like!!!) but most houses lasted about 1 1/2hrs before running out.  It was pretty cold out, so when we passed back by our house after about 45 min, Kai was done and ready to dig through her candy.  Hailey and I went back out for about 30 more minutes until she started hobbling around because her feet were frozen!!