I think I always forget how many Halloween activities there are each year. We started with the fall festival at school. There was downtown trick-or-treating in Childress; the movie theater had a costume contest and movie; we carved pumpkins; we had the church trunk-or-treat; then there were class parties; and finally, we went door-to-door trick-or-treating. Phew! It was busy!!
Fall Festival
The PTO organized a fall festival for the first time in several years. The girls and I went to the school the day before and helped to assemble and organize some of the games. The next day we had Stake Temple Day in Lubbock, so we raced to the temple and then raced home in time for the games to start. It was a long hectic day but still fun. There were games set up in all the classrooms with prizes and candy for them all. High school kids volunteered to run the games and the kids played over and over. The boys were able to run around with their friends and had a really great time.
Radley playing games
Kyler playing a ring toss
Damon target shooting
Not my best, but we took a turn on the hayride.
Yeah, we need to work on our selfie game!!
Damon golfing. We need some practice
Bentley had fun playing the games too. She was pretty shy, but she shot some baskets like her brothers.
The Ritz
Every year the movie theater in town has a costume contest and movie for the kids at Halloween. They take can donations to get in and then they show a Halloween-ish movie after the winners are announced. Some of their cousins came from Childress so the Keys took up more than an entire row! Kyler won Best Costume!! He was excited because his friends were cheering for him. We didn't win best group, which we definitely should have, but that's ok!
Taking up the whole row!
So many kids.
Kyler up with the other winners
Pumpkin Carving
Kyler and Radley shared a pumpkin and did everything on their own!!
Bentley doing her own thing.
Bentley now trying to carve the pumpkin herself.
This girl and her independence/dependence drive me crazy, but I can't help but love her.
Damon cleaning out the guts!
Lighting up their bat, scary face, and cat pumpkins.
And I didn't realize until after I took the pictures that Bentley, as usual, wasn't wearing any clothes. Oh well, it's her in her natural state.
Blurry cold picture of them outside with their freshly carved pumpkins.
He was so proud!
The kids were excited about carving pumpkins. They did a lot of it on their own this year which was fun to see.
All of them in the kitchen is a crazy time!!
The kids also painted pumpkins for the library. They had to paint a pumpkin like their favorite character from a book. Damon painted a dog (again, it's what he did last year), Radley painted Spiderman, and Kyler painted Mew from a Pokemon book. Bentley also painted a pumpkin all purple, then red, then black, and a couple other colors. She called it her rainbow pumpkin.
Oma did it again!! Every year she pulls through and delivers amazing costumes, in a box to our door! The kids decided on the theme of Aladdin this year. They picked on their own without any fighting but total encouragement for one another's costumes, and I love that they still want to do a theme!! It's so fun for me! All of it turned out great. I can't believe she can make such amazing costumes without ever trying anything on the kids. Every time we looked at Radley we laughed because only that kid could own the Genie with such pride. Damon was bummed he had to wear a shirt to school for his costume. Kyler was the best Jafar ever. Bentley loved her costume so much and wears it at least once a day. And Mackenzie was such a good sport and never complained about her costume!
The whole crew!
Radley as the Genie
Damon as Aladdin
Kyler as Jafar
Bentley as Jasmine
Mackenzie as Abu
First time trick-or-treating
Radley and Asher found one another of course and Bentley got to walk with Taysom.
Taysom and Bentley
Checking out their candy.
These two are hilarious, Radley and Asher!! Never a dull moment around them.
Cutest monkey ever!!!
Love that tail!
I was shocked at how well she kept her hood on! It ever really seemed to bother her.
The kids never seem to mind getting pictures for Halloween! They looked amazing!
Mackenize was adorable crawling around in her monkey suit
Radley woke up one day with a red spot in his eye. We decided to take him to the eye doctor, just to be sure it wasn't anything serious. All was good, and his vision is great!
We had some mice in the garage, and Kenney was excited to see that he caught two mice at once!!
"Look Mom we all match!" They were proud of their matching. *Oma, I think they've grown since you made these pants almost a year ago!!
Of course Queen Bentley couldn't be left out.
We had about 2 days of cold (30-40 degree) weather followed by a day in the 50s. I guess they boys acclimated to the weather pretty quickly to be running around outside without shirts on. Well, except Kyler who had long sleeves and pants, haha!
Radley was even wearing shorts!!
Dressing up with Asher. Radley was Batman and Asher was Black Panther.
Mackenzie is so close to walking on her own!! She really can do it, but she is more timid than any of our other kids.
One day we did a lesson about the Armor of God. We used superhero dress up as our armor, we had to use what was on hand! They each took turns with it on, but Bentley was pretty funny!
WTU Alumni here in Wellington organized a mother/son barn dance to raise money for scholarships. The boys were actually really excited to go. I told them they couldn't wear their typical mesh shorts and t-shirts, because they needed to dress nice. Since it was a barn dance they assumed they needed to dress like cowboys (like costume dress up). They were majorly disappointed when we didn't have any western clothes, boots, belts, or hats. They tried to wear the straw hat that comes with kids meal from the Big Texan, but I told them no! We ended up being some of the only people there without boots and hats! Damon and Radley decided to wear belts (regular church belts) thinking it made them look more cowboy. I guess since we are Texans, we should invest in that stuff, boots especially!
I have 3 amazing boys! Love them so much.
Bentley didn't want to be left out.
They loved being with all of their friends.
Such cute boys!
Damon was my most willing dance partner. Neither of us really knew what we were doing. I'm far from a dancer and even further from a dance teacher, but we did it anyway!
At least we both tried!
Kyler is about as coordinated as I am when it comes to dancing so we made quite a pair!!
They ate on the ground because there weren't too many tables, but they didn't seem to mind or question it one bit.
The boys all ended up running around in the arena most of the time. Radley was there basically the entire night, but got hit really hard by a rock when the boys all decided to start throwing rocks. He wasn't too happy after that.
But he's so dang cute!
Kyler and Jeremiah
Cix and Damon
Hayes and Kyler
Our attempt at a selfie as we were leaving. Radley was in a bad mood, so he was trying to hide.
The boys all came running for Old Time Road. It got almost everyone to dance. Damon also got into this song with one of his friends.
