Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

This past week has been jam-packed with Halloween Holiday fun.  The festivities began on Friday night when Celia's preschool had a carnival.  Thanks to resident photographer Emily for taking pictures of us during the evening (we forgot our camera).  Yes, Celia was Rapunzel again this year.  (With all that work I put into it, I was glad she was so excited to wear it again.)  Sabrina is also reusing the pirate costume Celia wore when she was two.  But she was a very convincing pirate and would say "ARRRR" with a lot of vigor. We also discovered at this carnival that Sabrina has amazingly good luck.  She won the cake walk on the first try and the subsequently won every other game she played that involved luck (numbers on the bottoms of swimming ducks, suckers marked with pen, etc.).  She did not realize that losing was an option because winning was her default. Then on Saturday, Celia got to wear her costume again to dance class.  On Monday, Emily (same one that took our pictures on Friday) threw a little Halloween playgroup for the older girls.  Celia got to wear her costume again and came home with all sorts of Halloween goodies.  

Also on Monday, Tom and I did a footprint craft with the girls right before bathtime.  They loved it and both kept chanting "trick or treat, smell my feet" and laughing uproariously.  

For Family Home Evening, we went ice skating (more on that in a separate post) and carved pumpkins.  

Tuesday evening was the Halloween carnival sponsored by the Young Men and Young Women.  The girls got lots more candy, colored pumpkins, made bags, got their face painted, and went fishing.

It was finally Halloween and the girls were so excited for the evening.  We took pictures next to our pumpkins, got one trick-or-treater at our house before we left, and then we were off to Trunk or Treat at the Church.  

Friends in our ward that run a funeral home always bring out the big guns.

And Sabrina stood by this looking at me like this until I took her picture (PS - not a real baby behind her).

Trunk or Treating is a fabulous idea in Alaska because it's cold outside.  And in literally 20 minutes, the girls hit up about 50-100 cars, got a full bucket of candy each, and then we headed home.  Love it.  On the way home, we stopped to trick or treat at cousin Taylor and Travis's house.  They made sure the pumpkins were filled to the brim.  When we got home, we watched "Nightmare Before Christmas" and the girls ate candy like crazy people.  

And then started acting like crazy people.

Right before bed, Celia said: "Why did you let me eat so much candy."  I said: "We only get to do that once a year... On Halloween.  Didn't you want to eat candy?"  Celia: "Yes, I did.  But now my tummy hurts.  I ate too much candy and now my tummy is junk."  Celia has been fine with us being in charge of the candy from here on out.  Sabrina, however, woke up and threw a giant fit that she couldn't eat more candy.  I'm still waiting for the post-Halloween sugar rush to wear off those kids.  But it was a fun holiday week!