For the Frost family, Halloween is a month long celebration full of costumes, traditions, friends, fun and CANDY! This year was no different. Here is a recap of how we celebrated the Halloween season.
Murder Mystery Dinner
To kick off the month, we had a Murder Mystery date night. We had three other couples join us for dinner and the murder mystery game. We had great food, great company and I was able to get Colby to dress up without too much persuading. All in all the evening was a success.
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| I broke out the "china" and goblets for the occassion. |
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| Gathered around trying to figure out "whodunnit." |
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| Christian's lederhousen and accent kept us all entertained. |
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| The question is, would you let these two do surgery on you? |
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| The Burstedt's pose for a picture. |
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| We had Abbi take our picture at the end of the night and, other than cutting off a head or two, she did a decent job. Haunted Houses
Possibly our longest standing Halloween tradition is decorating Haunted Houses. We had some friends over for a soup dinner and decorating. There were a lot of kids, a lot of sugar, and a little bit of crazy but we had a great time.
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| Years ago we learned that hot gluing the graham crackers together before adding frosting eliminates a lot of frustration. |
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| Colby and the kids with the assembled haunted house. |
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| This cracks me up! Some of the kiddos with their "chocolate eyeballs." |
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| Little O in his skeleton PJ's. |
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| Like I said, lots of kids and lots of sugar. |
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| This little cutie concentrating so hard to get the frosting just right. |
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| Ammon got a little creative with the frosting! |
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| It was near impossible to get a picture of all the kids and all the houses... but I tried. |
Trunk or Treat
The Saturday before Halloween, we attended the annual trunk or treat at the church. The kids had so much fun "trunk or treating" with their friends and the weather was perfect... there was even a chill in the air!
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| Pictures with friends before the trunk or treat. |
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| Caden, Carson and Ammon... the "big boys." |
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| Tanner, Carter and Austin |
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| Abbi and Brynlee... maybe taking some moves from Mr. Miyagi?? |
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| Me and my little ghouls. Check out the cheeks on that lion! |
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| Ammon and his buddy Mason were both ghosts. |
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| These three look like trouble. |
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| These little boys are getting antsy to get started. |
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| Colby and our little man cub. |
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| Trunk or treaters. Tell me you're impressed with my trunk decorating... |
Halloween Night
The one problem with celebrating Halloween the entire month of October is that I always feel a little burned out by Halloween night. (it is the very end of the month). It didn't help that this year it was 85 degrees and I had made our traditional Chili and breadsticks dinner. It turns out that no one really wants to eat Chili when it's 85 outside. We still had a great night. We had hundreds of trick or treaters come to our house and the kids got a grundle of candy. What a great way to end a fun month!
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| Four sweet kids ready to go get sweets. |
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| Batman getting ready to trick or treat. |
