The boys and I went to the student center for the Spooktacular on Thur evening while Ryan was in class. I was lucky to get out the door at all so the boys were some of the only kids there without costumes. Alexander ate more tootsie rolls than I could count and Benjamin really enjoyed the bounce house.
Alexander wasn't too excited about getting his face painted, but he endured it.
The boys sharing candy.
James was along for the ride.
I didn't get a picture of Benjamin at his preschool party, but he didn't have his costume on while I was there. Apparently, he was really excited about the cupcakes all morning, but then didn't even eat his during the party?! Sometimes I don't understand that kid at all.
I carved pumpkins with the boys on Friday evening while Ryan was at work. I've never used a pumpkin saw before and it was great. Benjamin wanted the Jack-o-Lanterns to look like one on the knife package and on a Halloween frosting tub. They lost interest before the second one was carved, so I finished it on Sat morning. I've never left so many guts in a pumpkin before, but it still worked out fine. I'm glad I brought the electric tea light candles with us when we moved.
So, on Friday night, I was cleaning out the diaper bag and removed the harness because there's no way Alexander would willingly wear it. Benjamin saw it and wanted to know if it still fit him and if he could wear it. It did fit and so instead of being a Knight for Halloween, he wanted to be a dog (probably in part because we wouldn't let him take the sword out of our apartment). I cut out felt ears, spots, and a tail and thought it would be cute if Benjamin wore a sweater... so we were already to go with the costume, except Benjamin misplaced the harness... so 5 minutes before heading out the door to go trick-or-treating he wanted to go back to the knight costume.
I wasn't sure if Alexander would be able to go with because he was napping. He woke up about the time of the costume change and ended up being the dog, which was a bit fortuitous because I'm sure he wouldn't have kept any part of the knight costume on.
The nice thing about being in Utah is that there isn't a question about Trick-or-Treating on Sunday... it's just expected to happen on Saturday. They had trick-or-treating on campus from 4-6 so it was an early evening, but it was also raining so it wasn't the most pleasant evening to be out. I ended up staying home with the baby because of the drizzle.
Ryan and the boys didn't make it out the door until after 4:30 and were home before 6. There was a ward Halloween party that evening, but the boys were tired and we normally start their bedtime routine at 7, so we all opted to stay home and have a little family party by drinking apple cider and reading spooky bedtime books. The boys also reenacted trick-or-treating by knocking on the bedroom doors and having Ryan and I "reuse" their candy.
These are cupcakes I made for the ward party. I'm still figuring out our gas oven because they we slightly over-baked. (I've never had the cupcake papers separate from the cake before.)
This was Benjamin's favorite piece of candy... a lollipop with a bony arm for a stick.
Alexander was eating a full sized tootsie pop and drooling/dripping it all over the apartment.
We signed Benjamin up for the Cosmo Club and we got a four Football tickets (probably a good thing we waited until BYU dropped four games in a row and people were giving away their tickets because to site said we'd be getting 2 tickets). There are also 7 Basketball tickets which we'll be using. Due to my Army Drill schedule, the UNLV game was the only one we could go to. So I spent all week trying to get Benjamin excited about the game. I was successful as you can see from the picture.
The other two tickets for the game I gave to one of the guys in my Chaplain program and his wife and one of her friends came. Thankfully, she has a Droid phone, because if she had not loaned it to Benjamin for him to play a bunch of games on it, we probably would have come home at half-time. I was able to keep him there the whole game.
Once Benjamin got bored of the phone, then he began to slide down the banisters at the stadium. He did that for the majority of the fourth quarter. But, I still got to watch the game. Hopefully, my son will begin to enjoy watching college football. We'll see if he is any better with Basketball.
