Trick-or-Treat!

Our festivities actually began last Saturday at our ward's trunk-or-treat. The boys have been on a candy high all week but have still been looking forward to today with great anticipation. Our day was full of fun. Diego and Christian both had parties at school which they said were very fun. Jose took the day off so when Diego came home from school they carved their pumpkins.

Diego and Christian giving Jose instructions

Anthony checking out the "guts" of the pumpkin.

Jose getting down to business. Diego is making sure Jose is doing it right. Diego is proud and excited about his pumpkin. Christian and his pumpkin. Here are their pumpkins lit up.

When I told Anthony I was taking a picture of the pumpkins he went and got the other little pumpkins that were in the bushes because he thought they needed to be in the picture. Anthony was our little Batman. The mask didn't even make it out the door. He sure did enjoy going to everyone's house though. At one, he held out his hand, said "Trick Tweet" and looked at the lady like "I'm holding my hand out, where's the candy?" (he couldn't carry his pumpkin anymore because it was too heavy). He was too cute.

There are two pictures here of Christian but there should actually be three. Leading up to Halloween he couldn't make up his mind on what he wanted to be. One of the consistent answers was "Ben 10" ( a cartoon where the boy, Ben, turns into different Aliens to save people). I actually found a costume of that at Toys r Us on sale (otherwise I wouldn't have paid any money for it.) He wore this costume for our wards trunk-or-treat. Then today at school they had a parade and he decided to be Spiderman. Then tonight he wanted to be Batman, with muscles. Thank goodness we have a good supply of dress up clothes.

And then there is Diego. We finished reading a book about spiders a few weeks back so he decided to be a Black Widow Spider. This had me worried because when he would carry his pumpkin he looked just like a boy dressed in black. But this beat out his earlier suggestion of being an ant. He just can't get away from the animal thing. Oh well, he was happy.

Here are the boys with their loot. We were surprised on how many people made "goody bags" that were filled with candy instead of just handing out pieces of candy. Their pumpkins were so full they each asked if we could hold their pumpkins for them. Thank goodness we had the stroller to hook them to. We were able to go around the neighborhood with our neighbors and had a great night.