Halloween

The week before Halloween we had my friend Thao over. I've been tutoring her in English for the past few months. Neither her or her husband had ever carved pumpkins before. It was so fun sharing this tradition with them. We also had some yummy soup and a pumpkin roll. 

 The Friday before Halloween we went trick-or-treating at the Commons with my parents. 

Is it just me or are these two the cutest Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee boy that you ever did see? I'm obsessed with them.

 On Saturday, Darin had a workshop to go to at school, so it was extra nice to have my parents in town to brave the Wizarding Weekend with us downtown. We started out by going to the wizarding family story time at the library.

 They had some fun Harry Potter themed crafts around the kids section of the library. We made these wizard/witch hats there.

 Following Harry Potter (in his invisibility cloak) around the library. The wrong way, it would seem...

 We found the Restricted Section!

My parents took off to go back home Saturday afternoon and we went to our branch Halloween party. I somehow didn't take any pictures. Darin dressed up as Lightning Bug Boy with his superhero costume from a few years ago, and we made him some antenna out of foil and a headband. I wore some butterfly wings to be Butterfly Girl to complete our Bug Squad Family.

 On Monday Shae had his Halloween party at school. Belén was super excited that she was invited to participate as well. They got to trick or treat around the school. At the Cosmetology school they got combs and hair gel :). 

Such a big girl.

 On Halloween night we scarfed down some mummy dogs (and skeletons and ghosts) and then went out for the last of the Halloween hoopla.

 We went to the street behind our apartments and they apparently rarely get any trick-or-treaters, which was golden for us because just about every house gave the kids handfuls of candy. It was so sweet to see some of these older couples faces light up as they saw the kids and exclaimed, "We never get trick-or-treaters! This is great!" 

One of the houses had a video going of a witch in the window that the kids were mesmerized by. It was fun to watch them.

 We ate so. much. candy for about a week and then I ended up giving a huge bag of it to Thao for her birthday so that she could taste all the American candy that she wanted.

 Funny story from Halloween. We told Shae that if people let him choose the candy, to always go for the orange packaged one. He obeyed, but also decided it was his favorite candy. That was what he chose to eat every single time so they went pretty quickly--but luckily he had chosen a bunch. The funny thing was, at houses where they stuck the bowl out, he would walk away saying, "No thanks," when they didn't have Reeses. Ha! Silly boy.