Trunk-Or-Treat

Paige and Maddie (The Mad Hatter and The Red Queen)

The kids parade

Lydia and Taylor (hippies)

The 'gross' molds of jello and my worm jello

Maddie with Hunter and Payton

Emmie as a baby

Happy Halloween!

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Halloween Night Party

Halloween night the Martindale's had a fun dinner party before trick-or-treating. It was potluck and there were yummy appetizers, soups and desserts!! What a fun night!

Halloween at School

Payton and Emerie

Sadie, Paige, Taylor and Sophie

I think Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! The great parties at school, the parade, and the costumes! Emerie decided to be Mulan this year, Payton a witch, Taylor an 80's girl (sad for me as I grew up in the 80's) and Maddie a masquerade queen.

Payton and Taylor in the parade.

Emerie's teacher and her boyfriend dressed up as Where's Waldos

Emerie's teacher reading a Halloween story to the kids

Emerie and Payton playing the witch hat ring toss

Emerie holding the pumpkin for others to throw candy corns in

Helping out with Halloween Treats

I always try to sign up to help out for different parties the kids have. If they let me bring Payton with me I will try to help out in the classroom.

For Emerie's class I signed up to make rice krispie treat pumpkins. I didn't realize they were 3-D pumpkins! I thought I just had to make rice krispie treats with orange food coloring and then cut them out in the shape of a pumpkin! Well, not exactly! I had to make the rice krispie treats with the orange food coloring, right before being fully set-up I had to make them into balls! Then I had to decorate them with a face and a stem! I went all over creation to find the shoelace style black licorice to make the mouth--to no luck! Their mouths were going to have to be red. I was told green gum drops were good for stems but who sells just green gum drops? I would have had to buy 4 packages of multi-colored gum drops just to get enough green ones! And then we would have all these extra (and in my opinion--yucky) gum drops left over. I went with rolos for the stems! YUM!

It took forever to make 25 round pumpkins and then to decorate them--especially since Emerie insisted on helping to decorate them--hence the 'unique' pumpkin faces! Also--Kerby had to join in on the decorating because it was already bedtime for the kids! And during all this I was also making chocolate chip pumpkin cookies for Taylor's class too! Lo and behold by morning most of the pumpkins heads had starting drooping and had to be reconstructed! What a nightmare!! ;)

Nobody gets in to see the Wizard, nobody, not no how!

My mom is such a talented sewer!! She not only made a Dorothy costume for Emerie and Payton but for me as well! And for Heidi...and for Mekall...and for Ellie...and for Camille... and for Aspen!! (I don't have a picture of Camille and Aspen--Yet!) Wow! We kept her busy!!

I didn't make as cute a Dorothy as Heidi and Elisa (she borrowed the costume for a party) since they have much longer hair!! But it was fun dressing up! **Emerie insisted we ALL wear the 'safety' glow necklaces!! ;)

Mekall, Heidi and Ellie

Heidi and Nate

Fred and Elisa Reese

Halloween night was a lot of fun!! Kerby stayed at home and passed out the candy and I went with Emerie and Payton! We joined up with Elisa, Sydney and Sean and walked our hearts out!! They lasted almost two hours!! Taylor and her friend Jane went out with Jane's mom!

Madison and her friends are 'older' now and didn't want to tag along with us old folks!! We sent them with a cell phone and off they went!! They EACH collected 10 pounds of candy!!! Too much in my book!! I think some of it will have to disappear... ;)

Madison, Sarah and Emily as Alvin, Theodore and Simon

Taylor and her friend Jane

Trunk-Or-Treat

Taylor--as Hannah Montana, Emerie and Payton--as Dorothy, and Maddie-- as Alvin

Madison as Alvin and her friend Sarah as Theodore

The Reese kids

Our church had Trunk-Or-Treat tonight and it was a lot of fun!! They provided hot dogs and chips for dinner and then the kids went 'door-to-door' on the classroom doors trick or treating!! Elisa and I shared a room! I wish we would have gotten a picture of it! It was decked out with scary signs, orange lights, dangling skeletons, and scary music--oh, and a ghoul (which scared most of the younger ones into not coming in for candy!) The kids had fun but since it was a school night we headed back home around 8:30pm. Fun night!! :)


My little posing Dorothy's!! ;)

Pumpkin Crafting at Michael's

My friend, Elisa, and I decided to take the kids to Michael's to see if there was some cheap fun craft we could take home and let the kids do. When we arrived at Michael's we found out they were doing a special Pumpkin Crafting. You bought their $5.00 pumpkin and you could decorate it with any of their supplies and then you got to take it home!

The kids had a ball! Emerie made a princess (notice the cute crown on top!) Taylor made a spider. Madison had to complete hers at home because she did Frankenstein and they let you do everything but paint there at Michael's.

**Thank goodness again for camera phones!! I had left my camera at home by my computer because I had just dropped the pictures from it to my PC!