3 Little Monkeys . . .: Halloween Week

Between school parties, work parties, Primary parties, friend parties, family parties, and the actual trick-or-treating day, I think we celebrated Halloween about 57 times in the last week. Whew! But it's been a fun time. Check out some of the things we've done:

Kasidee originally wanted to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween. But after wearing the ears for about 5 minutes, she said they hurt and ditched the whole Minnie Mouse theme and opted for an old princess costume in our dress-up box. At least she was happy! Kiera wanted to be Hermoine and Makenna wanted to be Ginny from Harry Potter. I still don't understand this obsession they have with Harry Potter. Must be the friends and cousins that are into it! But Quentin took them to the DI to find their Harry Potter costumes. They might not look official, but it's what the girls wanted, and it was cheap!

QUENTIN'S WORK PARTY ON FRIDAY
Quentin's work had a Halloween party for employees and their families. It was geared toward young kids - they got to go trick-or-treating to about a dozen stations, then there were lots of carnival games where they could "earn" more candy. The girls had fun. Since we were near The Gateway, we decided to check out the free exhibits at Clarke Planetarium. Kiera is really into science lately and just ate it up. We spent over an hour there.

Walking on the "moon"

It's hot on Mars!

It's been a long day!

TRICK-OR-TREATING ON SATURDAY
Of course the girls have gotten billions of pieces of candy during our month-long Halloween celebration. There is a local dentist who offered to buy Halloween candy for $2 a pound. I thought the girls would totally go for this idea, but they seemed hesitant. They sorted through their candy and were only willing to give up a handful of it - which wasn't going to cut it. So...we decided to forgo selling the candy. Instead, the girls each picked out some of their favorite candies which they can eat. The rest has been used for experiments. The girls came up with some fun things to do with the "junk pile." They've sorted and graphed their candies; they've played Post Office all week and have used Starburt candies as their stamps; and this weekend we're hoping to do some more "official" experiments with the candy - check out http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/experiments.html

JOHNSON FAMILY PARTY SUNDAY NIGHT
Kerry and Joey invited the Johnson clan out to their place for dinner on Sunday. Little did we know - they had something up their sleeves! Since they work at a storage unit place, they have the perfect area for Easter Egg hunts - and a Halloween spook alley! The kids ran down the alleys, where Kerry, Joey, Ben, Aaron, Eric, Mischelle and Quentin were in costume handing out candy. But the kids had to dodge the flying bat, the King Kong scary guy, the floating/roaming skeleton, and lots of screams and slamming metal doors. The kids got a kick out of it, and later they even did a spook alley for the grown-ups!

Kasidee and Jordyn (sorry it's blurry)