Halloween

Happy Halloween, everyone!

These past few weeks we went to several Halloween activities.  The funny thing is, Cosette didn't want to dress up for most of them.  We explained that many of the other kids would be wearing costumes, but Cosette just wanted to wear her regular clothes.  I did insist on a costume if she wanted to go trick-or-treating, however.

On the 18th Jeff took Cosette to an activity at the West Jordan Museum.  Cosette's favorite part was riding around in a little "train" (see picture).  She also got a handmade wooden car.

On the 25th we all went to the Pumpkinpalooza at the Veridian Center.  They had booths set up where you could play games and get candy and prizes.  Cosette's favorite thing was making a pumpkin balloon.

On Monday night we carved pumpkins from our garden for our Family night activity.  Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the results until after they had been sitting outside for several days and got rained on, so the carvings drooped a bit.  Cosette's stayed inside as her night light, so it looks a lot better.  I carved a green pumpkin to look like Mike Wyzowski, and I was pretty pleased with how it turned out.  Jeff designed a random face for his, and one of the trick-or-treaters thought it looked like Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon.  Cosette asked us to carve a face like the one on her pumpkin balloon.

Christine's pumpkin, Mike Wyzowski

Jeff's pumpkin

Some of the pumpkins from our garden this year

Cosette's pumpkin

Then on the 30th we had a ward Halloween activity.  We had a dinner and Cosette got to play a few games, get some candy, and take home a small pumpkin that she decorated.  Both of our girls dressed up for the event.  Heidi was a cute pumpkin and Cosette was a princess.  A few weeks ago I thought she was going to dress up in her favorite Bear outfit, but she changed her mind.  I didn't want to go out and buy anything, so she wore one of her fanciest dresses with a dress up crown she got from the conference store earlier this month.  They were both super cute.

On Halloween Jeff took Cosette trick-or-treating on our street while I stayed home with Heidi.  All in all it was a fun Halloween season this year.