Our Awesome Halloween

We must have been busy this year because we didn't get to do all of the fun things we usually do for Halloween. We usually carve pumpkins every weekend, we usually go to a pumpkin patch, we usually take the time to watch our Halloween movies, we usually go to a Halloween party, etc. You get the picture. Despite not being able to do all of the usual, fun Halloween things that we love, it was still awesome. D carved his first and only pumpkin the first weekend in October--it's his favorite keep-me-awake activity while we watch General Conference. I absolutely loved the pumpkin he carved though! It's an adorable mummy couple looking at each other...I don't know how well you can tell what it is in the picture:
D baked the seeds and made our scrumptious Halloween mix that we've enjoyed snacking on all month. Our good friends Courtney and Wayne had us over for dinner and we decorated some fun Halloween cookies, but didn't get any pictures of them. Then D dressed up for school on Thursday and his students and the other faculty members absolutely loved his costume! He had a blast with it too, and totally played the part of Jack Sparrow.

He was trying to get a picture, and I jumped in to join him :)

Then, yesterday, the weather was absolutely beautiful for Halloween!! We went to our ward trunk-or-treat, and several people came and told D he had the best costume there. Everyone loved that he played the part, and a member of our bishopric actually thanked us for our entertainment in Sacrament meeting today. Haha. People in the ward who weren't there last night, or missed coming by our car kept asking us throughout church what we did to entertain everyone. I just said I had nothing to do with it...it was all D. :) I seriously have the best husband ever. I'm glad he's such a people-person and everyone tends to like him. The rest of the pictures are from the trunk-or-treat:

Jack Sparrow handing out candy

Believe it or not, several of the kids were afraid of him and wouldn't take candy from him, so that's when I would take over and put candy in their bags. Poor kids...they didn't know what they were missing out on.
These adorable grape bundles belong to a couple of our friends.

These boys loved D's costume so much they were throwing candy to him! It really was hilarious to watch...I couldn't resist getting a picture of them!
Some of our friends dressed up as characters from one of our all-time favorite movies. We loved their costumes!
We tried to be a little creative with my costume since we didn't have time or money to get one for me to match D's, so I dressed up as Jack Sparrow's love: "the black pearl." Cheesy, I know, but it was fun anyway :)
Our favorite picture

Then, last night we only had about 4 or 5 trick-or-treaters after the trunk-or-treat, we got an unexpected but welcome phone call from an old family friend--it was great to talk to you for a minute, Bill!! And finally, we had our friends Jaime-Lyn and Buckley over for dinner and to play some Wii. It was super fun as usual. Halloween was pretty laid back, but very enjoyable.

Happy Halloween, everyone!