Halloween Festivities

 On October 27 Jaki took Zack and Will to the library Halloween party.  They got to play some fun games and win a few prizes.  Some of the games were pumpkin bowling, bean bag toss, eyeball races (like egg races but with plastic eyeballs) and the monster mash.  They also got to choose a mask and color it.  It was a lot of fun.

To the right is Zack doing the bean bag toss.

 Will was taking a crack at pumpkin bowling.  They rolled a little pumpkin covered in clear tape to knock over the pins.

Here are Zack and Will doing the monster mash.  It was like a cake walk but they got to choose a prize from a big black bin.  Will won after just a few minutes but Zack walked for about 45 minutes before getting a prize.  Jaki tried to get him to leave but he insisted on winning before he would leave.

In the evening we had a Halloween party with some friends.  We had just over 40 people at it, including kids.  It was a lot of fun.  We played games and had good food to eat.  Jaki won the prize for best costume, we have everyone vote for it and for the best carved pumpkin, which Brysen won.  We didn't take any pictures just because we were too busy taking care of everything.  

 On the night before Halloween we carved pumpkins.  Zack and Will helped scoop out all the guts of Zack's and then Zack told us what he wanted.  Kip helped him carve it.

 Zack and Will with the finished product with Jaki in the background starting to carve her pumpkin.

 Zack wanted his pumpkin to have hair, ears and eyebrows, along with the different shaped eyes and nose.

HALLOWEEN!

On Halloween Zack went to school at the morning time (8:35am) so that he could participate in the kids parade.  Jaki, Addi and Will went and watched the fun.  Kip had to work all day, unfortunately.  The picture above is Jaki and Addi waiting for the parade to start in Lomond View's gym.  Will was tired and grouchy and wouldn't let Jaki take a picture of him.  Zack was cute in his dinosaur costume.  There were so many fun costumes.

After school, while Addi was napping, Jaki and the boys set up the graveyard.  They kept pretending they were zombies coming out of the graves.  They also were running from pretend zombies.

Jaki took the kids trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.  They got quite the haul of candy.  Addi was dressed as a super cute witch, although she wouldn't keep the hat on.  Zack was a dinosaur and Will was a bat.  Will was a ninja turtle on the 27 and decided he wanted to be a bat on Halloween, silly kid! Jaki was dressed as Arwen from Lord of the Rings, complete with elf ears and the Evenstar necklace from the movie.

All in all Halloween was fun, fun, fun but busy, busy, busy.  Poor Kip had to miss most of it because of work, but we all survived.  Will is already saying he wants to be Hulk Smash for Halloween next year.