A Law Abiding Halloween!

Halloween this year was pretty awesome. Especially when compared to last year. Last year I was pregnant and not feeling well, Matt worked, and we didn't have Kylee. And we ran out of candy super early. This year, we made up for it and celebrated Halloween the entire month of October!

I already blogged about the Zoo Boise Spooktacular which was the first Halloween event of the season. Next on the agenda was a "grandkids" Halloween party put on by my parents. There was a pinata and Halloween bingo and lots of deliciously themed food. Nice work mom (and dad)! I'm hoping this becomes an annual tradition (wink, wink).

The week of Halloween also happened to be Red Ribbon Week at Kylee's school. There was a fun theme each day of the week, including Crazy Hair Day that Monday before Halloween. Kylee's hair-do for the day might not really be "crazy" but we sure had fun transforming her hair into a spider!

I also got to make treats for Kylee's class Halloween party... zombie eyeballs!

We had gorgeous weather the entire month of October, so we waited until just a few days before Halloween to carve our pumpkins so they wouldn't get moldy before the big day. I love that Kylee designed and carved her pumpkin all by herself! Crazy that she's big enough to do that!

We also roasted some pumpkin seeds, which were a big hit in our house. Kylee requested that we make pumpkin seeds every year! We followed the directions on this site and boiled our pumpkin seeds in salt water. We let them dry overnight on a cookie sheet and then used recipes from this site and made ranch and cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds. Kylee's favorite were the cinnamon sugar.

We had a lot of fun trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Mandi and her kiddos joined us as we walked around the neighborhood. Kylee was a cop and Tyler was a jailbird.

This is Kylee's "I'm going to put you in jail" look.

And the "I gotcha" picture. Tyler wasn't too happy about this!

While we were out trick-or-treating, Kylee kept asking when we could go home. She really wanted to pass out candy with dad and scare the kids that came up to our door with a giant spider (much like they did the night before at the ward Trunk or Treat!). I thought it was great that she would rather pass out candy than get candy. Both she and Matt had a blast - like father like daughter! Matt is already planning what he might do differently/better next year!