Halloween is so much fun!

Jake’s fourth grade class was asked to come up with a costume for a vegetable for a class assignment this year.  We kind of forgot about it until morning of (awesome).  Sometimes I do my best thinking when I’m under pressure.  I thought the “Mummy carrot” was pretty darn cute!  Jake dressed as Harry Potter was off to school on time……

Costumes:  So Cole relates to the Hulk pretty well.  His whole third year of life was devoted to honing his Incredible Hulk skills I swear.  It was not the easiest year for him nor I.  He gets angry pretty easily and kind of flies off the handle without much provoking and turns into Hulk junior.  Hitting and screaming sometimes biting!  We just keep reminding ourselves that one day we will laugh at this and look BACK on it.  So the perfect costume for him this year was definitely the Hulk. 

 

Carter and Hanna had a lot of fun this year dressing up!  For the base activities this is what they came up with:  These awesome ZOMBIES!  They were kind of shocked when I told them that it was acceptable this year since I’ve kind of had a no creepy costumes rule for years.  I think kids should be lots of OTHER things first before they move on to the gory stuff.  Carter was even more shocked when I told him it was okay to cut these jeans up for the cause.  It’s so easy to shock my children!  As soon as we arrived on base at Donnelly Park these two were off on their own.  Its so nice that they are so close in age and get along so well.  They are becoming really good friends again now that they are both in Middle school together. 

The base puts on a huge party on Donnelly Fields.  They have hotdogs, popcorn, trunk or treating (what a Zoo however!), A giant jumbo screen playing the Charlie Brown Halloween special, and games for the little kids.  Trick or Treating in the neighborhoods on base was really fun this year too.  It is more American style except the houses are duplexes and really close together so it means you get to grab candy even faster from each house!  I think the candy just circulates….they ask people to bring candy bags and give it to the houses that are handing it out and then I swear the candy from their kids’ bags goes back in the bowl that they hand out.  Its like a giant CANDY CYCLE of suckers and chocolate.  Its awesome no one complains! 

 

Jake went as Harry Potter this year (fitting since this was his Harry Potter year for his birthday and reading the books!), and Josh dressed up as Captain America from Avengers.  He’s just so dang cute in this costume.  I LOVE my kiddos.  It was nice to have a break from matching costumes and from buying costumes.  I offered, but only Josh took me up on it this year.  Everyone else wanted to do their own thing or use stuff we already owned.  Easy Peasy…..and cheap! 

 

After we did all the base activities and Trick or Treated the base housing neighborhoods, we headed back home to drop off the little boys and mom for bed.  Then Dad and the two Zombie kiddos headed back to base for the Haunted Tent city in the forest.  Apparently it was pretty awesome!  You drive in to the forest (one of the many on base) and they have a bunch of tents set up.  Then you walk through to each tent that has different scary stuff in it.  One was a hanging hockey mask tent with all of these hockey masks just hanging around….then a few of them jump out and scare you because they have people in them!   A chain saw and people pushing back that turned out to be scary workers is really all I can remember…… because I was at home with the little ones.  Hanna and Carter talked about it for days and had so much fun.  Jared is an awesome Dad to take them and stand in line with them!  It really made their Halloween awesome.