The Halloween Marathon

Halloween has become a true marathon around here- almost like Christmas with everyone and every organization wanting to throw their own party and parade and event.  But of course it's too much fun to pass up so we do it all, cause we certainly have all the energy we need hyped up on so much sugar.

Thursday:  Here comes Pikachu Isaac at his school parade.

Missed Ethan but here he is the Grim Reaper, minus his hood since it's not allowed at school.

Ethan's class party.

Friday:  First attempt at a family picture.  No one looking.  No one smiling.  Oops that's because you can even see most of their faces and Isla is mad that it's 8am and she's cold in her princess dress.

Very mad.

And here's the next day at Miles' school parade.  Masks allowed this time.

Visit Grandpa Bill.  This is actually the last time we saw him before he passed.  So glad we visited.

And gave hugs.  We'll miss him a lot!

And we also had to visit Grandma and Grandpa-great.

Guess whose seat I stole.

Just as good of a seat.

And just in case we haven't visited enough people yet, off to dad's work for trick or treating and lunch.

Uncle Arty and Stella were the best.

Still not enough visiting?  Off to Miles' and Isla's preschool party and, yep you guessed it, parade!

Ethan and Isaac were happy to pass out treats they'd already collected themselves earlier.  We have too much candy!!!

Saturday:  Do we need one more Saturday activity since it's Halloween day and we've already been to 3 kid's soccer games?  Sure let's throw in a piano recital with everyone in their costume.  Here goes Pikachu Isaac announcing his songs.

And Ethan the Grim Reaper announcing his.  He got quite a few laughs both times he had to announce his songs.  He really can see out fine through the mask but of course we couldn't see him at all.  He really enjoyed this except that it was roasting hot.

One last group shot in front of my amazing neighbor's decorated garage (she was hosting the neighborhood Halloween dinner).

Cutest Rapunzel ever.

Still not shy to show off his moves.

And finally it's time to trick or treat for real with our friends.  First year ever that we all split up- Isla and I with other girls and moms in the neighborhood.  Taylor with Miles and some of his friends and dads.  And Ethan and Isaac with another group of neighbor boys.  We LOVE where we live!

Spoils of the last 3 days.  Finally the marathon is over (too bad mom will donate all this candy in 72 hours and too bad it's Sunday tomorrow morning and mom is in charge of wrangling 60+ primary kids into a primary program rehearsal).