Halloween 2018 Family Activities

Halloween is my favorite time of the year!  Here are just a few photos from 2018 featuring my son, Luke!  Luke doesn't share my passion with Halloween, but he does respect the holiday and enjoys it as much as any kid his age. I'm hoping to make each Halloween as special and as fun as possible for him, so that maybe when he's an adult, he'll look back and realize why Mom loved Halloween so much!

Luke and Aaron work on their jack-o-lantern at Hurricane City Park.  We're so lucky that our town offers this fun activity every Halloween!  Usually the Sunday before Halloween, the mayor (Scott Edward) and various city businesses come together to host this free, family-friendly event!  FREE pumpkins are given out to anyone who wants to carve one, and carving tools and patterns are available for anyone who needs them.  Everyone sits on a large tarp in the middle of Hurricane City Park and creates their masterpieces for the contest!  There are various age categories, but we never get to see the winners because Luke has this weird, adverse thing to being judged, and refused to enter the contest, lol.  So, we carve our pumpkin, eat our free chocolate chip cookies and drink our free hot chocolate, provided by Sheetz.

Trick-or-treat time!  Luke and Brooke tend to choose matching or complementary costumes.  This year, he went with the inflatable dinosaur, and she chose an inflatable unicorn.  That costume ATE batteries, so luckily we packed plenty of extras, and he was able to make it around the subdivision without deflating.  Brooke's lil' brother made an adorable Buzz LightYear, and Emmalin from across the street had a beautiful witchy costume.  

Since it was going to be pretty impossible for Luke to wear this dinosaur costume to his school Halloween party, he went with a backup costume for that occasion.  This pirate costume was $5 at Walmart! For $5, I thought that was a pretty awesome deal, and honestly, it didn't look any cheaper than the more expensive costumes.  We bought him an added sword (which he wasn't able to take to school) and a hook hand. 

Luke and I channeled our inner Pinterest goddess/god and made these Nutter Butter cookies dipped in white chocolate.  Some were ghosts, some were mummies, and the rest were monsters.  The two I made are at the bottom of this picture.  We had a really fun time doing this, and it was so easy to do.  And, they were quite tasty!