Halloween

Our Halloween festivities started on our weekend visit back to Tallahassee. Angela and Aunt Julie joined us for a visit to our favorite Pumpkin Patch. It is the same one that we have been going to since before Madison was even born. The kids jumped in the bounce house, got their face painted and picked out a little pumpkin. Hudson decided on becoming batman and Madison was a princess.


The next event was Hudson's Costume Parade and Halloween Party at his school. He strutted around in his batman costume and enjoyed sharing some yummy treats with his class. Really cute!!

The next fun event was "The Not So Scary Fairy tales". This was a haunted house type play, put on by the arts department of UWG, based on scary characters of common fairy tales. We traveled through the various tales with some new friends and their kids. Their children are more on the shy and reserved side, so our kids seemed extremely outgoing. Both Hudson and Madison really got into the stories and interacted with the actors. Madison could have been one of the actors...she played along perfectly! There were a few scares along the way as well. The scariest and funniest part was at the end of the show. The last room was the Three Little Pigs. The pigs all get away and we are left in the room with the Big Bad Wolf. So to finish the show the wolf says to all the kids, "The three little pigs may have gotten away, but if you don't run away too I am going to EAT YOU ALL UP!"....and he lunges at them. Hudson lost it, let out the most terrifying scream and jumped into my arms. He really thought he was going to get eaten! It was the first time we have truly seen him afraid like that. It was well worth the money!

Most of the counties in our area decided to celebrate Halloween on Saturday instead of Sunday. We prefer it on Halloween, but we didn't have a choice. So we spent Saturday carving our pumpkins. Madison chose Jack the pumpkin head from the movie The Nightmare before Christmas and Hudson chose Batman.....Shocker! The kids scooped out the guts at first and then Hudson decided he didn't like it, so he left it for Madison and Daddy to finish. They did a great job!

That night we decided to leave our neighborhood and go trick-or-treating with some friends in their neighborhood. The only little girl Madison knows in our neighborhood was out of town, so she decided it would be more fun to spend Halloween with friends...and it was! Brent, Joy, Jordan, Jackson and Mia have become good friends of ours. We ate together, went trick-or-treating and then had a bonfire and roasted marshmallows. The kids had a blast and of course got too much candy!

Below is a slide show of more Halloween pictures. Enjoy!