Halloween

Finally, it's December and I'm going to post about Halloween. Happily, Halloween corresponds with Nevada Day AND the end of term for public schools, so Ryan gets a three-day weekend for work and most kids have a whopping five-day break. Willa's preschool party was on Wednesday, since they got Friday off for Nevada Day. She decided to wear her "Mommy Cinderella" dress for this party.

They trick-or-treated around the preschool and younger siblings got to dress up and go along, too,which was the bees-knees for June. June was determined to go as Rainbow Dash even though she's the exact perfect size to wear the Lambchops costume this year! It about killed me to not use it, but she passed on all attempted candy bribes, which is saying a lot because she lovesss candy.

Luckily, I got a little photo of her in the costume while playing at home. In her defense, it's a bit of a bulky costume to wear.

Since everyone was out of school on Friday, we met the Thalmans for a hike and picnic at Red Rock. It was a beautiful day out there.

Finally, we got around the carving our pumpkins. My memories of pumpkin carving include using kitchen knives in a freezing cold garage. My fingers would be so cold and frozen after pulling out the pumpkin guts, it was miserable. Much nicer in warm Las Vegas with appropriate tools. I was expecting the worst with the girls and sharp objects, but it was surprisingly enjoyable.

We ate Halloween dinner at Rebecca's new house and went trick or treating to a few houses in her neighborhood. There aren't a lot of kids there and most of the houses were dark, but it was fun to do just a little with Rebecca. For actual Halloween, Willa was a fairy, she did her hair herself (meaning, she didn't want me to do it).

By the time we got home to our neighborhood, the girls had more fun just sitting in the driveway and passing out candy. This was awesome because it lowered our candy consumption considerably later on. There was plenty of candy, but we weren't swimming in it. The only sad part was when June went to give a teenager in a wolf mask some candy and he purposely scared her. What a punk! I should have grabbed that candy back. His friend was polite enough to take the mask off when they were passing by on the street again. Overall, though, a very fun night and weekend.