"Pre-Halloween" Trick-or-Treating

The kids and I went with my sister Becky and her kids along with Grandpa and Grandma to trick-or-treat downtown again this year. Thankfully, it wasn't raining like last year!! I decided to re-use the costumes I had made the kids for Star Wars Celebration V, so we all went as Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back characters. Ben was Luke, Anna was Leia (wearing her Cloud City/Bespin outfit), and Peter was Yoda. I wore my snow speeder pilot costume.

School Halloween Party

Benjamin's class party was on Thursday, October 28th, 2010. I signed up to help, hoping that I could make Halloween themed sugar cookies to bring like my Mom used to do. However, I was asked to bring grapes and Ritz-type crackers because they're trying to focus on more healthy options. The kids aren't allowed to wear costumes at school, which was always the highlight of the Halloween parties for me when I was a kid, so I was disappointed about that. But, Benjamin still had a lot of fun. I was in charge of helping the kids make spiders out of pipe cleaners and Tootsie Roll Pops.

Benjamin's first "station" was making a scarecrow from a brown paper bag:

The second station Benjamin had was to dress his teacher as a scarecrow, but I didn't get a picture of that one since it wasn't in the classroom, where I was stationed.

Here is the third station Benjamin had, mine: making spiders:

This classmate of Benjamin's was particularly proud of her spider!

Benjamin with his spider:

"Pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern"

Beanbag toss:

Playing with plastic bugs and "creepy" animals in a table of shaving cream (Mommy wasn't so thrilled with this one) :

Snack-time:

Danish Festival (Belated)

I was downloading pictures from the camera and came across pictures I had taken of the Fireman's Parade on Friday August 20th, 2010 and the Grand Dansk Parade Saturday August 21st, 2010. I completely forgot to post them. Every year, a theme is chosen based off of one of Hans Christian Andersen's stories. The theme for this year's Danish Festival was "The Princess and the Pea". I entered our house in the "Tivoli Town" contest, a house decorating contest. We got third place, which I thought was pretty good considering it was my first year. I wonder though, if they saw the intricate paper cut (Hans Christian Andersen did a lot of paper cut, it is sort of a traditional Danish thing) that I had done with the Princess and the Pea theme... I didn't get any pictures of my decorations, though I thought I had. :/ Here are the pictures of the parades:


This is the Fireman's parade. They go down one way with just their lights on, then come back with lights and sirens on. (It was very handy just walking down to the end of the block and there was where the parade would be!)















The Grand Dansk Parade: