Halloween 2015

I absolutely love Halloween time and today we have had an absolute fantastic time with our pumpkins, dressing up and going out trick or treating. Our day started with the usual football training and I was pleased to see that Joshua was doing some light training today which was a first since his operation. After football the two boys had a football party over Bromfords school. Once all the football was out of the way, then it was back home to get prepared for Halloween fun.

 

Holly went to the football party wearing her pretty "Frozen" Halloween dress.

Joshua and Brandon sprayed their hair blue ready for the party and for the Halloween celebrations. Mind you the colour goes well with their football kits.

 

 

Pumpkin carving with the boys this year was thoroughly enjoyable, albeit very messy!! Brandon did a fantastic job and designed his own haunted house with bats all on his own on a sheet of paper. He then asked me to transfer it onto his pumpkin and then he cut it all out himself. Joshua wanted to carve a purple Minion and again as he struggled with the drawing, I copied the design onto his pumpkin and then he cut the entire thing out on his own. I think Tina was having kittens seeing him with a sharp knife, but the end result is outstanding and if I am truly honest it gives my simple Olaf pumpkin a run for its money. Joshua was even learning from me about how to do partial cuts though the pumpkin skin to get different shades of colour.

 

Me helping the boys do the messy part of scooping out the insides of the pumpkins.

And off we go, sharp knives in hand, let the artistic juices flow.

I marked out Joshua's purple Minion, but then he did a top job of cutting it out all on his own.

Brandon concentrating hard on cutting out the bats for his haunted house.

Brandon with his finished haunted house work of art.

Brandon's looking good all lit up.

Joshua's purple Minion came out absolutely fantastic and he is so proud of his work.

My Olaf looks pretty pathetic compared with what the boys have churned out. Not one of my best pumpkins.

Holly obviously could not carve the pumpkins however we still bought her a pumpkin and then in the morning Joshua helped to show her how to push in some plastic face pieces to make her own pumpkin design. What started like a simple one sided face soon turned into a cluttered, colourful, multi face design!!



Brandon teaching his little Sis how to design her pumpkin.

Holly wanted every single piece inserted into the pumpkin creating a rather colourful and cluttered design.

Scary dudes Josh and Brandon all dressed up and ready to head out trick or treating.

Fright Night comes to Wickford.

Holly showed no fear of the costumes or any of the Halloween decorations.

Holly changed her "Frozen" dress to a lovely little Witch outfit ready to go out trick or treating.

Holly looking as beautiful as ever. Loving her little Halloween tights as well.

Holly was absolutely amazing with the trick or treating and pretty much walked (I mean ran) around the whole estate tonight. She very quickly learnt that you knock on these random doors and the nice people seem to give you sweets which you then fill up in a little cauldron. Furthermore the clever little girl worked out that with her cuteness and charm she could go back to most of them and grab a second handful of sweets and not one said no to her!!!!



Holly taking some sweets from off the head of snake ladies snake.

One house around the corner that puts on the most amazing display even had projectors running this year which projected spooky animated pictures onto picture frames out side his house. Just amazing.

The creepy carnival featured the fortune teller, sawing the lady in half, bearded lady, Siamese twins, knife throwing, haunted carousel and so much more. Crowds gathered outside the house to take in the spectacle.

 

As the temperatures started to drop we headed home with lots of tired legs after loads of football and loads of walking. Even the sugar rush wasn't enough to keep three very tired kids awake for too much longer.