Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Halloween

We started our Halloween festivities with a trip to the Houston Zoo for Zoo Boo on Friday morning with Gretchen and the crew. For Zoo Boo they have little stations set up with different activities, trick-or-treating, a pumpkin patch, etc. This year they also had actors from the Renaissance Festival passing out candy. Sam was totally weirded out by that. Of course that also happened to be the coldest morning of the past 7 months or something. But that actually worked to my advantage in getting Afton to keep her hat and mittens on, but she had to wear a jacket. Some people asked if she was Shrek. Does Shrek have three eyes? No.
 Carter really loved the lions.






I think the kids caught colds at the zoo. Friday night was the church Trunk-or-treat. Dan and I got in on the costume action. Dan was Bob Wiley from "What About Bob?" and I was Tony Perkis from "Heavyweights." No one knew who I was, but everyone was telling Dan that his costume was the ultimate in awesomeness. Not that I'm jealous or anything...


Our outfits were going to be a little better (Dan in shorts w/ tall socks, me in workout pants) but it was a little too chilly, unfortunately.

After our church party we headed to Kirk and Gretchen's to watch BYU get whomped by TCU. Someday I will have my revenge! (I went to the BYU/TCU game two years ago and it was terrible. I want to beat them!) But Riley Nelson high-fiving the ref was pretty awesome if you didn't see that. Here's a clip.
Sunday the kids were sick. Dan carved a happy pumpkin.



Yesterday (Halloween) around 5, Sam started crying and saying that his ear hurt really bad so we spent the actual Halloween holiday at home trying the help him feel better. I asked him if he wanted to go and get candy or stay home and he said stay home. I'm sad he missed out on trick-or-treating, but he was a pretty sad dude. And I'm sad I didn't get a better picture of Afton in her alien outfit, so I may dress her up again today and take some more pictures.

One last story. This morning Dan was eating breakfast with Sam. Sam let out a huge toot and Dan said, "Sam, was that a toot?" And Sam looked at him and said, "No, that was a goofy toot!"

6 comments:

Fabulous Featherette said...

What a cute Buzz Lightyear and a little Toy Story person (don't know the name)! Sorry Sam wasn't able to enjoy the festivities and get all that candy for mom to eat! Hope he's feeling better. Ear aches are the worst. I love the last pic. In the carousel pic, what is Carter sitting on? What is the leaf hut thingy?

SAM!!! said...

Wait so what is wrong with his ear? Cool costumes. (I like your better) The pic of carter enjoying the lions is fun but where is all the ren fair actor candy passing out cleavage?

C&C said...

glad you got the jacko wig to work for you. Nice costumes! Poor Sammy.

Julie said...

Your costumes are awesome! You both look hilarious. The kids look cute, too :) Caden probably would have wanted to be Buzz more than a pirate, but we didn't even give him a choice! Next year I'm sure he'll have a say.

You're family pics turned out great! I like your yellow dress...so cute! I got a kick out of the family pics you took at the pumpkin patch.

Betsy said...

Looks like fun, minus the sick kids on Halloween. Poor guy. Afton's hat is so cute.

Brittney said...

They look so cute! Sad that Sam was so sick he didn't even want to trick-or-treat. And Ryan and I totally kept rewinding to watch Riley Nelson give the ref a high five- we were dying laughing!