Halloween 2011

We started celebrating Halloween on Sunday evening.  We headed to Bethany Bible Chapel with the Reisetter family where they had set up 20 different Western Store Fronts made out of cardboard in their gym.  At each store front there was someone dressed for that store handing out candy.  For example at the barber shop, there was a barber and a man getting his hair cut, both were dressed in clothes from the "old west" time period.  It was great because it was all inside and it moved pretty quickly.  When you were done going to all of the "store fronts" you could then have some cookies and a drink.  Jen had called that morning and invited us to go with them.  I hadn't heard anything about it, but I'm glad she called and we went, it was fun!  Before we left, we took some quick pictures of the kids in their costumes because we knew that tomorrow (Halloween) would be crazy busy.  Here are some photos of the kids in their costumes.

Our little giraffe!

Our elephant and giraffe!

Miss Norah the elephant

Holding hands :)

The gang at Bethany Bible Chapel

Halloween Day was pretty low key as we just had our normal day.  But once Erik got home from work, we were busy!  As soon as he got home, we got the kids dressed and ready to go over to my old babysitter's house.  I have mentioned before that the lady that babysat my brother and I when we were little lives here in town.  Her (Geneva) and her husband (Henry) are like another grandma and grandpa to me, so we wanted to be sure we stopped over to see them.  Here we are visiting Henry and Geneva.

After Henry and Geneva's house we headed over to Erik's parents house to see Grandma Deb, Grandpa Craig and Aunt Leah!  They had some goodies for Kyler and Norah and wanted to get some pictures of them in their costumes.  After Erik's parents house, we came home for a quick dinner and to hand out some candy.  We just handed out candy while we are dinner because as soon as we were done, we headed out to do a little trick-or-treating on our block.  We just went up and down our block because we knew we would hit plenty of houses.  We had been talking about what you say when you go up to a person's house with Kyler for a couple of weeks now.  We had been telling him that when you go up to their door you say "Trick-or-Treat!" and then they will give you a treat in your pumpkin.  We weren't sure how he was going to do because he is fairly shy around people he doesn't know, but he did really well saying "Trick-or-Treat" and then "Thank you" after they gave him some candy.  The only funny part was that if they gave him the bowl to pick a treat, he just kept taking them. :)

Heading out to Trick-or-Treat!

After we went around our block, which was plenty because Kyler was ready to be done riding in the wagon, we headed to Ashley's parent's house to see Grandma Nadene and Uncle Ben.  It was the last stop of the night.  It was fun to take Kyler Trick-or-Treating this year because he definitely knew what was going on this year and was really into it.  I'm sure that Norah will be right there with him next year!