Halloween-ZoBell style

Actually we don't really have a style, but here's our Halloween experience anyway. I took the kids to Hunters pumpkin patch where Mason and Nat loved getting lost in the hay maze and Dallin and I went down the big chute slide about 50 times. He loved it! We got our pumpkins out i n the field and carved them later that night.

Mason's is scary, Nat's is happy, Dallin's is a dog. The kids had fun. Sadly, they caught the pumpkin disease and the inside's turned green with white fuzz. We had our own science project growing in the window sill for a while. Enter the Family Fun kit with sticky felt faces that you stick on the pumpkin. No carving. The kids were just as excited. We'll remember that one for next year.

The kids did trunk or treat at the church. Mason was Darth Vader with no mask. So he looked like a kid dressed in black. Nat was a pink fairy, and Dallin was an alligator. Except his zipper broke so it didn't really zip.

Good times had by all though. And the chili dinner afterwards was super yummy!

I decided to throw a Halloween party for Natalie's kindy class. Just the girls though. I had them all were their costumes, because you can't at school. (Which is a completely different subject that I won't get into.) I had made sandwiches in the shape of pumpkins and bats, string cheese cut in half, and then took a knife and made slits in the cheese to look like fingers. Apples, carrots and dip. And dry ice in my big orange pot. It was truly the hit of the party. And then when I dumped apple juice in and it made the bubbly sound, they all screamed and ran around the kitchen. MOM POINTS, MOM POINTS!!!!

And then we made a craft. I am NOT a crafty person. I will ruin stuff as easy as putting hot glue on a little round eye. When the RS talk about having craft night, I cringe and shudder at the very thought of sitting around a table with "crafty things" all around. But thanks to the family fun website, I found a craft that maybe, maybe, I could do. I stayed up the night before and painted 10 tiny pumpkins black. Traced some bat wings on craft foam along with eyes and ears and TA DAH!!!!

This is Natalie's. I give family fun magazine credit for coming up with this cute idea. I give myself credit plus a gold star for actually doing something that turned out. Yeah me. Yeah Halloween.