This is Halloween

Halloween was a big deal at our house this year. We started celebrating it a few days before Frankie's party at the end of August, and I let him keep the decorations up for another week or so after Halloween was over. My favorite decoration this year, which I swear I took a picture of, but can't currently locate, was a bunch of 4x6 size foam pieces which Frankie adorned with his foam Halloween stickers. They are really great stickers: haunted houses and such in bright colors. We lined them up below the shelf in our living room.

I have a lot of pictures and not as much time, so Picasa collages are helping me out with this:

Our first official festivity was making sugar cookies. Sugar cookies are one of Frankie's favorite things. I've decided I'm going to be brave and help him make them more often.

Then we carved pumpkins with Kennadi. It took Frankie quite a while before he would brave getting the guts out of his pumpkin, but eventually he did. He drew the face on his for me to cut out.

Frankie's pictures of our creativity. He cracks me up with his photography. It is a serious business to him.

A few days before Halloween Frankie got to don his official (improved) ghost costume to join Tayden and Jarek for their ward/neighborhood Halloween carnival. He was amazing at the bean bag toss, and all of the boys loved the little train ride. Since Christina works for the college, she had heard about a trunk or treat hosted by the sports teams. The college kids were really cute, our favorite was the football team that had this 70's van all decorated. 

 Then we went and visited Grandma at the high school, for more trick or treating. Frankie ended up being the first child the high school kids saw. They thought he was really cute, and consequently he ended up with far too much candy. My favorite moment was when a girl wanted to pull him into her choir class, and it was nuts for me to see Mr. Moore, formerly my choir teacher and student council advisor, standing in front of the class. My nephew Hunter was in the class and came over to give Frankie a high five.

Finally the day had arrived! There was a Halloween party at my Mom's with his cousins. Mayzie had planned some cute games including a treasure hunt and a pumpkin roll. I love the group picture, they all had such cool costumes.

Trick or treating Grandma's neighborhood, and getting a Halloween present from Jeremy's parents. Please note the picture in the top corner, even though it is tiny. Frankie really liked the Halloween decorations in this yard and wanted us to take a picture. The flash revealed flamingos, garden gnomes, and silk flowers. Awesome.