Halloween 2023

We had a good Halloween season in 2023! Here are all the things we ended up doing:

Now that we were back in San Antonio, we hit SeaWorld for their Halloween events. I took Noah separately at first while the other kids were in school. He still loved his Luigi costume and refused to wear anything else that day.

 

Pretty decorations!

Later, we took all the kids, and I convinced Noah to wear the family Yoda costume. All kids would have worn it at some point!

Not a fan of the Carousel! Even Eden and Joseph prefer the bench.

Joseph was a cyclops, Noah was Yoda (or baby Yoda), Eden was Stitch, and Eli was Harry Potter.

There were fun decorations, Trick or Treating, and a little corn maze.

 

 

After all the festivities we ended with rides with Eli.

Rio Loco is a family favorite!

I make sugar cookies every year for the kids to decorate. This year I got a request to make a snake and a frog for Joseph and Eli.

 

 

Eden had a special Halloween dance recital. This was also her first recital ever and it was cute to watch!

The stage.

All the kids at the end.

She did really well for her first recital and was excited to receive this little bouquet at the end.

 

There was a storybook parade at school as well. Eden chose to be a dragon from the book Dragons Love Tacos.

 

 

Later that day there was a Fall Festival and Trick or Treating at the school.

 

The Fire Department came and there were some people dressed as Barbie and Ken on stilts 😂. A lot of people were creative with decorations and costumes!

 

Time to carve our pumpkins!

 

 

On Halloween itself, we ran into our neighbors and Trick-or-Treated with them for a little bit. I wish we got to know them better before they moved, but it was fun all the same. Later we went to a Tri-Ward Trunk-or-Treat but I have no pictures. I wasn't too happy they had it on Halloween itself, haha!

And that's it! I still have Halloween 2024 to blog about, so hopefully, I get to it this year before Halloween 2025 happens.

Halloween 2022

Halloween was pretty fun this year! The older boys were (and still are) really into Super Mario. We thought it would be so much fun to have a family costume this year. Eli wanted to be Mario, but Joseph wanted to be King Boo instead of Luigi. That costume then went to Noah. I wanted to be Toad, Sam went with Bowser to match Joseph, and Eden...wanted to be Sisu from Raya and the Last Dragon. To satisfy my desire to have a family costume this year and Eden's to be a dragon, she ended up with two costumes, Sisu and Princess Peach. Now that we had our costumes, the festivities could begin!

Wearing costumes at dance.

Time for the Monster Mash!

 

Attending a Halloween Party at the local community center:

Coloring Trick-or-Treating bags.

He had a mustache face-painted on.

Eden wanted a rainbow.

Costume Parade!

Eden and Eli's age group.

Eli won Cutest Costume!

Joseph in the older kids' parade.

Really laying into the character here!

Joseph won Scariest Costume.

Another Halloween-y thing we did was attend our ward's Trunk-or-Treat. There was a potluck, games with prizes for the kids, a pumpkin carving contest, and of course Trunk-or-Treating. This was the most decorated trunk I've done and I'm mighty proud of it!

The whole crew!

Look at Luigi's gut!

 

A true Princess through and through!

It's a Mario Time!

  

Boo!

I'm not sure I would ship these characters but we're sure cute!

I had Super Mario Music playing in the background as well. The star became a favorite in the household so much that Eli named it Numi. I couldn't tell you why!

There was a costume parade at the boys' school. I was sent these photos in the parent chat of Joseph.

Joseph still working it.

There was a Halloween party at Eden's school. There were little games, a costume parade, and some Trick-or-Treating. She went as Sisu this time!

I helped with the fishing game.

Costume parade!

Lastly, actual Halloween night. The kids were so eager to go that I had to keep telling them to come back home until everyone was dressed and ready. Sam took them out while I stayed to hand out candy. Sadly our porch light only lights up with motion so we might not have gotten as many Trick-or-Treaters as we could have. The kids joined a gigantic group of other kids from the block to bombard houses. There was one young couple that just gotten back from the store, not even out of their car and there were swarms of children surrounding their vehicle asking for candy. Sam told me about it and I felt a little bad for them! But makes a funny story. Sad to know that we won't be walking this neighborhood next Halloween. There are a lot of kids our kids' ages and they knew them from school so it was extra fun.

The costumes were a hit and Noah loved his so much that he wears his hat constantly. We might have a use for them later as Super Nintendo World has opened at Universal Studios in February. We have plans to go and I think it would be super fun to go in our costumes, ha ha!