Mecham Family: Happy Halloween--2014

I don't think I've ever celebrated Halloween as much as we did this year. Every weekend in October seemed to be full of events where we celebrated Halloween. Halloween definitely is more fun with kids and it's even more fun the more kids you get.

Casey's family celebrated Halloween on Friday, October 17th. Casey's mom had a fun night planned with dinner and then trick or treating in the backyard. We had fun dressing Mason and Tanner up for the first time this year and spending time with family.
The next day Casey's family decided to go to Jaker's Pumpkin Patch in Springville. Mason loved every minute of the pumpkin patch this year. We started off by playing in the corn kernel pit, then off to the slides. After the slides we took a ride on the wagon pulled by the tractor. Mason was in complete heaven riding the wagon, he loved watching the big tractor pull us. After our wagon ride we went and saw the animals in the petting zoo, then spent the rest of our night playing around in the hay bale mazes. We had such a great time.

Our celebrating continued the next Saturday, October 25th with a trunk-or-treat with Casey's extended family. Everyone takes their cars and backs them into Casey's grandmas's yard, then the kids go around to each trunk and trunk-or-treat. Everyone looked so cute in their costumes and it was so fun visiting with family that we don't get to see very often.

That night we went down to the Riverwood with Casey's cousin, Adam, and his wife Kristie and their 3 kids. The Riverwoods was doing their Pumpkin parade and we had fun walking around looking at all the different pumpkin displays. The pumpkin displays included Frozen, Lego Movie, Avengers, Frakenstein, Batman, Madagascar penguins, and Harley Davidson. After looking at all the dispalys Kristie and I went and did a little bit of shopping while the boys watched the kids and listened to the band play. Mason loved dancing to the music from the band. We had such an enjoyable evening!!

That following Tuesday, October 28th was mom and dad's ward Truck-or-Treat. They invited us to come to it. Mason got a huge haul of candy and he loved going to the different decorated trucks to get even more candy.

The day before Halloween, Casey and I decided to carve pumpkins with our little family. We went to Papa Murphy's and got a jack-o-lantern pizza then came home and carved pumpkins while the pizza cooked in the oven. I loved spending the night with just our little family.

Finally Halloween was finally here. Mason, Tanner, and I woke up early and got ready for the day so we could go see Bud and Lydia in their school Halloween costume parade. After the parade, Amy, Lin, the kids, and I went to Target where we got the kids Halloween decorated donuts. Then it was home for lunch and naps.

After Mason and Tanner woke up from their naps we went Trick or Treating. Our first stop was The Sweet Tooth Fairy. They were giving out free cupcakes if you took your kids in trick-or-treating. Then we stopped at mom and dad's then went to a few neighbors (4 to be exact). Mason's idea of trick-or-treating consisted of just wanting to run up and down the sidewalk as fast as he could.
Our last stops were Bridgette and C.J.'s, Lin and Justin's, Grandma and Grandpa's, and lastly Myrn and Garrett's. Our last stop was Myrn and Garrett's because they had a little Halloween party full of witches fingers, eyeballs, blood juice, pizza, and Halloween cookies. We ended the night by playing a few games at Myrn and Garrett's, then took the boys home and got them ready for bed.

We ended our Halloween celebrating with another party with my whole family on Saturday, November 1st. Mom made her homemade chili and bread sticks and everyone came over. We had a fun night eating dinner, munching on treats, and visiting with family.

We loved every minute of celebrating Halloween this year and I loved every minute of dressing up Mason and Tanner. We also loved seeing everyone in their cute costumes.

Casey--Mario