The Bunker Home: Halloween Wrap-Up

Before I play catch-up on all the comings and goings here in the Bunker home, I suppose I should do a quick wrap-up of our Halloween. Despite the fact that Jared, Avery and Austin all complained to me individually when they saw me putting away our Halloween decorations last week (lucky for me Quincy can't talk) we really did have a very full, very eventful Halloween. I didn't mind packing things up since we really did get our month's fill of spooky food, scary stories, costumes, haunted events, decorations, Halloween parties and not to mention candy out the wazoo.

Halloween Eve's Eve-

What's Halloween without the annual trunk-or-treat? Jared and I went in our "Up" costumes and Austin and Avery were Robin Hood and Maid Marion. Austin was pretty stoked about his bow, arrow and "diver" (quiver). He took his part very seriously. My favorite part of the costume? (not the men's XL shirt I had to cute down to a size 3T an hour before the trunk-or-treat started with a 3 year old waiting at my elbow the whole time asking, "Is it ready yet?") It was the arrow through the hat. And I LOVE that it was Austin's suggestion putting it there.

Saturday was a crazy, busy day for me and Jared worked all day at the office and didn't come home until it was time for the party to start so our trunk decorations were less than steller but hey, what we lacked in preparedness we made up for in candy. Besides, everything looks better in the dark of the night, right?

Avery fell in love with her hair so she made sure I took a picture so I could remember how to do it again for school on Monday. She did make for quite a beautiful Maid Marion, I loved her dress.

Halloween Eve-

Since our weekends were too packed this year to have our annual Halloween party, we thought we'd at least have a little Halloween dinner to celebrate. We invited two of my very favorite people that I've grown up with (we missed you Berni!!) and their cute little families, to come over and brave the Bunker madness.

Jared wanted to make it an arachnophobia themed night and they were troopers to put up with the frozen spiders in their ice cubes, the webs overhead and the spiders hanging down from the ceiling . We didn't have them come in costume since it was the Sabbath but we did make everyone pick a hat from our costumes to make it a bit more fun.

Avery was in heaven surrounded by all of Shanna's boys. We told them if they wanted to watch tv later than night it had to be a church movie or a Halloween movie. (ha!) Here they are enjoying "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Halloween Morning-

Though I think 8 am is a bit early to be in full costume (thank goodness for the trunk-or-treat trial run) the kids and I made it to the school all ready for the fun times to continue. And continue they did!

There was the school costume parade:

Not to mention the Halloween carnival and classroom trick-or-treating.

While I worked at my little booth Avery and Austin were busy running around with all their little school buddies. Who doesn't love a cute kitty-cat version of Maid Marion?

Halloween Night-

Michiko and Cosette were in town for Halloween while my brother was out of town which made the night extra spook-tacular. Here are the kids during their pre-trick-or-treating dinner trying to load up on enough carbs to give them enough energy to run around like crazy monkeys for the next three hours. (I love that they are "cheers!"-ing their witch's grog here)

Love their costumes.

Now, ready for those TREATS!

(Notice the change of costume for Avery. That's what happens when you're 6 and have more costume ideas than actual Halloween nights. Since she had already been Maid Marion that day, she was ready to take the plunge and be Mermaid)

Trick-or-Treating-

We had an awesome night out on the town. We went to an awesome neighborhood where Jared's boss lives and the kids loved running around together. They scored on candy, I think they each had 1 piece of candy and the rest was all CHOCOLATE!!! Forgot the dum, dums, bring on the full-sized candy bars. I haven't really had chocolate cravings this pregnancy (weird, I know) but Jared has been in heaven ever since robbing their booty each night while they're in bed.