Hall-oween Festive

This year Halloween celebrations were a plenty. We decided not to trick or treat on Sunday so we had fun the Friday & Saturday before. 

We started Friday morning with Warren's costume Parade at school. He was a dragon. 

Here he is with his good friend George. He was a shark. I told them to each give me their costume face. I thought their character interpretations were such a hoot!

I have no idea who these kids are but I thought this scene was hilarious. Ariel fresh out of the water has finally discovered her whole new world. "hhuuuuuhhhhuuuuu hhhuuuuuuuuuuhuuu". 

Warren got out of school at 11:15 so we headed out to "Zoo Boo" at the Houston Zoo. They decorate it really cool and the kids can dress up. Before we left I dressed Ben up in his cowboy costume. He was supposed to be a chinese man to coordinate with Warrens dragon but he wouldn't have that costume what-so-ever. So, I dressed him up as a cowboy cause he loves Woody. He thought it was cool for about 1 minute and then threw his hat off and started ripping his chaps off next. Oh well, at least I got 1 cute picture of him in his costume. lol

 The boys enjoyed the pumpkins carved everywhere, the giant candy corn, playing in the fountain & feeding the fish. 

Downtown Houston is filled with Live Oak trees. They are so gorgeous. They often grow spanish moss which looks beautiful hanging from them. I thought all the pumpkins hanging down looked cool. 

Next stop was the children's museum. It was decked out with spooky decor. They had a scavenger hunt for the kids. At each treasure spot there was trick or treating.This was Warren's first time going and he loved it. 

Decorating Halloween cookies. 

 Ben LOVES playing in the ambulance. Warren approved too.

I think the grocery store can be officially deamed my boys "hot spot". Warren loved it too. 

Ben ran straight to the best part in every grocery store...

"Spoo-ky!" After the children's museum we joined our ward for a trunk or treat of which I took no pictures. I know, can you believe it? ha ha

The past several months have been crazy busy. We usually always get pumpkins and for the past two years we have have created my pumpkin snake (you see above). Weston is the ward mission leader now and the stake is currently doing a big "rescue" initiative and so he has been gone nearly every night the past several weeks doing his visits. Needless to say we waited too long to get our pumpkins. Saturday night before Halloween this is all I could find in Kingwood that even came close to resembling a pumpkin. I managed to convince Warren that the huge green gourd would be an awesome dragon head! 

Sunday night we passed out candy and socialized with our neighbors for a little while. It's a yearly tradition that everyone in our circle comes and sits out together and passes out candy. It's always fun to hang out with everyone. 

We excused ourselves early when the missionaries aka "God's angels" arrived at our house. They arrived in stages by bike, by car & then by truck. Seeing their glowing white shirts in the dark,  our neighbors were like...."who are they...the ghost busters?!" It was funny. 

The boys LOVE to see the missionaries as much as we do. We are so grateful for Weston's calling because we get to see them so often now with all their meetings, etc. They are a wonderful blessing in our lives! 

 My missionary in training. :D 

I hope you all had a great halloween too!