Charles as Iron Man with super cool muscles!
Thomas as Black Spiderman with an awesome mask (and moves.)
Charlie's candy haul.
Tom's trick-or-treat loot.
Today my mom had a Halloween party at here house. The boys wore their costumes and Brian and I went along. When we got there we were asked to go down to the costume box and find a costume of our own. Then we all went on a costume parade.
Here we go on our parade. We went up the street and even got some honks from some passing cars.
Brian was the ace of hearts. He was such a good sport to wear a costume and go on the parade.
My brother, Spencer, was Peter Pan.
Amanda: an Indian--Dan: a cow--Jayne (Spencer's friend): a ladybug--Emily: Velma from Scooby Doo.
Sam: a race car driver--Tom: black Spiderman--Mary: a princess--Charlie: Iron Man
My Dad: a devil--My Mom a sparkly witch
The devil (my dad), Me (a jack-o-lantern), Brian (the ace of hearts), Dan (a doctor), Dan (a cow)
Emily and Me.
Doctor Dan and Indian Amanda
After the parade, we went back inside and the kids made great noise makers. The decorated a plate and put jingle bells inside then attached another plate.
Charlie was taking a break during the decorating part. My dad was helping him and put the stickers on his plate and when we got back to check on the progress, he was upset that there were too many stickers and not in the right place. Maybe he should have stayed and helped.
I was helping put Mary's shaker together. Brian got hold of the camera and took the pictures.
Now Charlie is ready to work on his. He helped my mom thread the ribbon to hold the plates together. 
Tom was admiring Mary's noise maker while I'm sure Brian was tickling or making a joke or something fun.
Next the kids got to go play games. Here they are waiting so patiently and listening to the rules.
We played stick the nose on the pumpkin. Charlie went first and he got closest to putting the nose in the right spot.
Tom went later, but and wasn't close. He of course used his hands to feel if it was close to the right spot.
The next game was throwing orange jack-o-lantern ping-pong balls through the cardboard cut-out. Thomas tried to bounce the balls to get them up to the different cut-outs.
Charlie did really well, but he didn't want anyone to take his picture. I had to put the camera through the cut-out to get this shot.
We all got into the action this morning. I helped Tom with his green pumpkin and Brianna worked on Charlie's.
Tom got a turn to dig out the pumpkin guts.
He still has a problem with how it feels to stick your hand inside the pumpkin.
We finally finished. Tom picked to have the Spartans helmet carved into his green pumpkin. Charlie wanted Brianna to carve the football into his. I think that we did a really good job with these. Some of the pieces were really close together, but they turned out really good.
We had 3 pumpkins and the third was Brian's. He fell asleep while we worked on the other two, so I had the boys draw a face and helped them cut it out. We had a really good time making Jack-O-Lanterns.
Yesterday was the primary program in our ward. This is my FAVORITE week of the year (apart from church in our pajamas that was a couple of weeks ago) because it is time for the true teaching to happen.
Charlie got Frankenstein. I wish I would have gotten his picture when he had his tongue sticking out, it was very funny.
He even tried it on half way through his creation.
Tom had a mummy. He wasn't really excited about it, but when my mom suggested he color like a Ninja Turtle his was the hit.
We had to wait until he was finished before he revealed the final product.
Brianna even helped out with Sam's bat mask.
They wanted to go outside and show off their masks. I think they turned out really good. Tom did all the work by himself and Charlie did most of it alone and stayed in the lines. I helped a little with the face and hair. They did awesome!
My mom had a fun surprise that they could take home. A fun Pez dispenser and a great light up ball. I tried to take pictures of how fun they are. When they bounced around and the lights went off and they had so much fun with them.
Here's to the start of a fun Halloween season!
Picture courtesy of Charlie (not bad)
They have most of the rides open, Halloween decorations up, different haunted sites, and these funny characters. On our way out we spotted these guys. Once we told the boys that Joker was there, Charlie had to snap another picture. He was very nice to stay and let Chuck get a picture.
Here is us upon entry to the park, Tom had suffered an injury while jumping onto the brick wall and wouldn't get in the picture despite my begging, so Charlie happily showed us how excited he was for us to be there.
The first ride we always hit is the space scrambler and today was no different. It isn't Brianna's favorite ride, so she got our picture as we were waiting for the ride to start. After the scrambler we headed to the bat, a roller coaster. You have to be 42 inches to ride the bat and Charlie was really close, but they wouldn't let him ride, so he and I waited for Brianna and Tom to finish their ride. Charlie cried, but after they were finished he chose to rid the lady bug bop.
Here are Bree and Thomas waiting for us to finish our ride.
All over the park they have these vignettes set up for pictures. This one is my favorite.
Chuck was willing to step in too. Tom was still upset about his small injury to get his picture taken here.
But he was willing to try the fairy on for size. (Pink wings for the pink lady.)
Of course Charlie was game for this one too.
They liked this ninja shot too.
Ninja Charlie flying through the air.
Another favorite is the cars. They just are on a little track and they drive through, but I remember loving this one as a child too, so I can understand. Charlie usually wants the red car and doesn't hesitate to ask the ride attendant to let him have it.
Here's Tom at the end of the ride. He told me once that he does such a good job on this ride that he should get a drivers license. If only all roads had metal guides on them.
They wanted to head to the bumper cars, but they weren't there. In their place was a spook walk for the kids. They went through and they had little stations; one with a man with pumpkins, one with a witch making stew with eye balls and bats, one with a pirate, and one with a princess. They got a treat at each little station and came out with bag full.
This is Tom's happy face about the gummy earthworm they got (it really looked like a real earthworm and it smelled bad.) I wanted him to show his real emotion about the earthworm, but he eventually smiled about it.
