Halloween!!!

We love Halloween in the Hansen house. We celebrated many ways this year. We had a thrilling Pumpkin Party, I volunteered at Xander's school carnival, and for Xander's class Halloween Party. I was in charge of the Monster Claw. By far the most fun game!

Of course the most important part of Halloween was trick or treating. We started out by eating dinner at Bachan's like always. She made a wonderful dinner of soup, salad, and bread. Auntie Sam was there too! It is always fun to see her. Then all the kids got ready in their costumes. Josh was a dead person, cleaver through the head accident. That'll get you every time. Xander was Dr. X Death. Maybe he is responsible for the cleaver accident. Michael was the Joker. Pretty scary if you ask me! Jalon was a very realistic Batman. I almost forgot it was Jalon. Farrah was a Princess riding a magical unicorn. She even had beautiful princess makeup and glitter. And Mya was a princess ballerina. Complete with flowing curls and a tiara.

We got a late start at trick or treating, about 7:45 so we had to be quick and efficient this year. Jalon did great keeping up with the big boys. I got the impression that as long as there is candy involved he is willing to run for it. Farrah visited about 10 or 15 houses and just chose to relax after that. She said she had enough candy. Josh, Xander, and Michael agreed there was no such thing as too much candy. Taffy had fun trick or treating too. She got a lot of practice at being calm. She really wanted to chase the boys. People started to turn out their lights about 9:00 pm so we decided to call it a night. The kids got so much candy and then Bachan gave them a GIANT bag to split up between them. The night ended with all the kids playing trade the candy. Even Jalon and Farrah were trading. I am not sure they understood to trade things you don't like for things you do like because they were trading straight across, Doritos for Doritos. So cute.

We got home and packed up Brian for his trip to Chicago...

Pictures are not organized yet on Flickr but you can scroll through the photo stream to see them. And when they are organized they will be under "sets" then Halloween 2008.