halloween.

well this year we decided that since Halloween fell on Sunday, and with everything that has been going on,  that we would try and do something fun Saturday night for the kids. so we decided to come up with a few fun games and a scavenger hunt so that the kids could still have fun and get some yummy treats. first we did a scavenger hunt. here are the kids at the door waiting for their first clue. don't you just love cullan's face? geez what am i going to do with this kid? ( now that i look, i guess Kael's is kind of crazy too!)

 we even decided to bring baby ayla along for the fun. by the way... i LOVE my moby wrap!!!

 

I guess garran does too for that matter! he said he thought it was pretty comfortable to wear.

so the kids went on the scavenger hunt and at the end they found a bag for each of them with fun Halloween things like a pumpkin flash light, candy necklace, ring pops and a few other fun things. 

then it was on to the games. we played  a game called trick or treat. i printed these cards of a great website http://preparednotscared.blogspot.com/. so basically if you get a treat card, then you get a treat, but if you get a trick card, then you have to do what ever the trick is on the card. for example, walk like a mummy or moan like a ghost! it was pretty fun. 

however the big hit of the night also came from this same website. 

"DON'T EAT FRANK!" 

oh my goodness. this was so fun to play with the kids and i think will definitely be a keeper. everyone agreed that it should be a new family tradition at Halloween to play this game. so this is what the board looks like for the game.

you get whatever small candy you like, we used m&m's. you place one on each square. then you send  one person out of the room. everyone else decides which character is going to be "frank". then the person comes back into the room. that person starts slowly eating the candy of each square. when they get to the square that has been designated as "frank", everyone yells "DON'T EAT FRANK"  and the person has to stop eating the candy. it might not sound like it would be fun, but it is. cullan went first and when we all yelled "DON'T EAT FRANK"we scared him so badly that he ran half way up the stairs. we were all dying laughing. the sister missionaries stopped by our house while we were playing and so we got them to play as well. one sister jumped back and screamed! it was really funny. 

hope everyone else has a happy Halloween and enjoys all their yummy treats!!