Halloween was a lot of fun this year. We started off the season with our ward's annual Fall Carnival. Mike made our White Chicken Chili recipe this year, and he won "Best Non-Traditional Chili"...
He kept saying, "It's a major award!", a reference to the line from "A Christmas Story" if you're not familiar with it. And, if you're not familiar with it, you should get familiar with it. It is such a great movie...
Vivvie got to wear her Halloween costume to dance class the week of Halloween. Here's our little Elsa with her friend, Anna (Reese)...
At the end of dance class, they got to exchange candy with each other...
Here are all the little cuties dressed up...
The elementary school held their annual Halloween parade...
And then that afternoon, Mike's company held a Halloween party for employees and their families. Each department decorated a different room as a spook alley. It was fun to go through all of them. Some of them were surprisingly scary, others were funny, and some were cute. Here's Mike and Vivvie walking into one of the scary ones...
Of course, you can't go to Mike's work without stopping in the "Zen Den" for a turn in the reclining massage chairs. How do these people get any work done?!?
Viv liked looking at the view from the 4th Floor...
That night, we came home and carved pumpkins. Mike's parents were in town at the time, so they were there to help...
Here are the finished products. From left to right, there's Cohen's scary pumpkin, Aiden's classic pumpkin, Connor's pumpkin in a pumpkin, and Viv's cute pumpkin...
Halloween fell on a Saturday this year, which meant I had to work. If you're going to work on Halloween, why not have a little fun with it? My management gave me approval to dress up for the morning show and 5:00 show, and Kristin provided me with this cute witch costume...
I did the weather live from my neighborhood during the 5:00 show, with a bunch of cute Trick-or-Treaters that just happened to belong to my neighbors. It was fun, and it allowed me to be home for awhile to see the kids in their costumes. A win-win...
Here's the only picture we got of all the kids in their costumes. Unfortunately, we forgot to take the picture before they went Trick-or-Treating, so this pic was taken after they got back. They all look a little haggard. Trick-or-Treating is hard work...
Connor was a Crypt Master, Aiden was Mario, Cohen was Captain America, and Vivvie was Elsa. It was a fun Halloween. I know I don't have too many more of these where all four of my kids will dress up and go Trick-or-Treating, so I tried to soak it in as much as possible. --Lindsay
