If there was one phrase that sums up who I am it would be "family traditions". Family is everything to me and I cherish every opportunity to create precious memories doing our family's treasured traditions. Halloween day is another one of those wonderful opportunities to create awesome memories with special traditions.
Food is typically one of the major highlights of our fun family traditions. On Halloween day we kick off the celebration with monster donuts and yogurt. Since our family is ever growing, this year I also added in some donut holes.
Lydia could hardly wait to dig into her donuts, so much so she was nibbling off other folks plates. Good thing she's the current baby and spoiled rotten, lol.
On last years Halloween clearance sales I acquired a cute Halloween bingo game, so we broke it out this year and played a few rounds during our homeschool table time.
For lunch we had jack-o-lantern cheese crisps.
Here's the trick-or-treating crew this year! The two older boys have since outgrown the dress-up phase and no longer join in on the dress-up fun. But, this year our second oldest was kind enough to drive the truck and trailer through the neighborhood.
It was really hard to get everyone dressed and ready this year. It had rained most of the day and was bitterly cold. We just aren't used to that at Halloween time. Since it was so muddy I didn't get very many pictures and the sun was actually setting before we were all ready anyways ~
which did not leave much time for picture taking.
Lydia was absolutely hilarious about having her face 'painted'!!! She wouldn't even move her mouth to speak when I was done. Her eyes were big as silver dollars, in shock, thinking that I had done something terrible to her. But, once she saw Tabitha and me with our faces painted she was ok. 😂
Most of this year's costumes were hand-me-downs. We had a major Halloween catastrophe about 30 minutes before we were supposed to head out. Upon trying to put the children's costumes on we discovered one of our littles boys costume did NOT fit. Thankfully we had extra costumes in the hand-me-down box and we found a suitable replacement.
Absolutely NEVER a dull moment with this family!
Every year we hook up a trailer, load it up with hay, and go on a hay ride trick-or-treating through a nearby subdivision. As I mentioned earlier, it was bitterly cold and we had a house full of sick children. Most of them were coming out of their sickness, but still had terrible coughs. About half way through our Halloween night adventures, most of our kiddos were miserable, freezing cold, and ready to go home. We made a parental command decisions to take the little ones home and daddy took the rest of the children to finish up trick-or-treating. As you can see we still ended up with a ton of candy and everyone had a blast.
Another Halloween under wraps and as is our custom, another epic story to go along with it.
At this point we just own it ~ pure organized chaos folks, lol.
But hey this event came with perks....
A 'boat-load' of candy which helps tremendously when it comes to balancing out all the crazy
that makes our life ~ our life!
With Love & Hope,
Jennifer
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