Halloween 2009

We have had an entire week of Halloween fun here in the Jones household. It all began last Sunday with the annual Johnson Family Halloween party. We had our traditional chili dinner here at our house. The kids all came in their costumes and had a ball playing together.

Tuesday night Gary and the boys carved out pumpkins. Dan and jack designed them and Gary carved. The boys were so excited to carve pumpkins!

On Wednesday Jackson got to dress up for preschool. He came home with lots of goodies.

Wednesday night the local elementary school held their annual "Monster Math Night." They had a chili dinner for families then the kids could walk through the hallways and play math games for treats. It was fun to see everyone in costume (and to be inside a warm building to enjoy it!)

Thursday Gary's work had trick-or-treating for all of their employee's kids. We took the boys around Gary's building and they were loaded with candy when we left. Evan was so funny. He would just stare people down as they gave him candy. I could just hear him saying in his head "I'll take the candy, but I don't trust you." He is so funny.

Friday I took the boys for our yearly Halloween lunch with Aunt Suzy and to Grandma's work to bring treats around. The boys love going to visit Susan and Mom at work. Susan took us to eat at Lonestar Taqueria and it was yummy. The boys got a lot of looks and comments being dressed as they were.

At Grandma's work we took around pumpkin bread. Daniel and Jackson both loved giving people the treats. They received quite a few compliments there on their costumes as well.

Of course, yesterday was the big day. First thing in the morning Daniel came in and told me that is was Halloween. He has been counting down the days. Gary spent the morning helping his brother Russell and his family move and they boys and I ran a couple of errands. In the afternoon we dressed the boys all up again and took them over to Russell's house to show his family and Gary's parents their costumes.

After we came home and did our trick-or-treating. It was pretty chilly out so we just went up one side of our street then down the other. The boys were happy with that, so we called it a night and came back home to hand out our own candy. I think the boys enjoyed doing that as much as they enjoyed trick-or-treating themselves. I asked them to help me sort their candy and give some away to the trick-or-treaters and they happily sorted out half for me to give away. We had Susan and Greg come over to watch the Utah football game with us and they brought pizza. When the trick-or-treaters fizzled out we got the boys in their jammies and sent them to bed. It was a fun day (week) for us all!