Halloween Fun!

FALL FESTIVAL

On Saturday night our church had their huge fall festival. This year it was at Westworld and not on the church campus. It was a huge event and tons of people showed up. They had bounce houses, lots of games, food, a horse drawn hay ride, and of course tons of candy for the kids. Kaylee was excited when she learned she got to also wear her costume this night. Poor Lex was fussy this night and I thought she was just tired from having to wake her up from her nap earlier in the day to take Kaylee to Ballet. Turns out she was getting sick and was sick most the night. :( Poor thing. Luckily she bounced back really quick and felt better by the next afternoon so we let her trick-or-treat to a few houses. I felt bad keeping her from the fun when she was running around and acting like herself again.

Here Lex is at the toddler area of the Fall Festival





while Lex was playing Kaylee enjoyed the bounce house

Petting the horses

On the hay ride

Kaylee finished the night off with playing games

HALLOWEEN DAY

We started off the morning with Pumpkin pancakes. This was a new recipe this year that also has a homemade syrup that goes with it....super yummy!!! (thanks Katie ;))

Then it was time to carve pumpkins. Poor Lex missed out on this. She slept most the day recovering from being sick the night before.

Kaylee was ready to dig in to the pumpkins this year. Other years she has been a little cautious about the pumpkin goo but she could not wait to help pull out all the seeds. With Ryan's help she helped out with most of one pumpkin. Then it was uww..."I have to wash my hands", and "Mom, can I color now"....and so Ryan finished carving that one and then did the other one by himself. Isn't that always the way....good old Dad does most the pumpkin carving. :) We also remembered to save some seeds out for roasting for the first time since we have had kids. I roasted them today with butter, garlic salt, and seasoned salt, and they are really yummy!

Posing with the finished product!

TRICK-OR-TREATING

Our cute Sleeping Beauty and Tinkerbell ready to go!

The girls helping daddy put the tea light candles in our little pumpkin lanterns out front

Anxiously waiting for Memaw and Auntie to come over so we can all go trick-or-treating

Going to the first house. Lex did so good and even said trick-or-treat a few times. And Kaylee was such a good big sister and made sure that Lex got candy at every house. She would grab some and bring it back to her pumpkin if Lex did not walk all the way to the door.

We just went to a few houses on our block all together and then me and my sister took Lex home so she did not over do it from being sick.

Back at home passing out candy. I got Lex all comfy in her pj's and then she helped me and my sister pass out candy. We just sat out on the front porch and ate pumpkin bread and drank apple cider and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

Lex had a great time bringing candy back and forth from the trick-or-treat basket to her own basket.

When Ryan, Kaylee, and My Mom got back Kaylee took over passing out the candy. She was so proud to have that job. :)

At the end of the night checking out some of her candy. I say "some" because I can see she still has a ton in her pumpkin. :)