Halloween Parade

Ok, so I have some catching up to do. Unfortunately, updating the blog took a back seat to several other activities, both home and work, in the past week.

Looks like the poll wasn't very exciting...so here is the big reveal...

Saturday morning before Halloween is the big parade in our town and for the first year since we have lived here, we decided we would go. Well, the parade has been going on for 32 years now and this year is only the second time it has been held indoors due to rain!!! (The first time was 5 years ago when the DC sniper was around). I won't mention that it had stopped raining and the sun was shining by the time the parade was supposed to start. Oh well, they moved the parade and costume judging inside to the boys school.

Our second trip to school on the weekend was for the annual Haunted Halls/Monster Mash party on Sunday. This is also the first year we have attended and it was a really great event for the kids. They had the kindergarten hallway turned into a mini haunted house and the teachers and 5th graders made up the witches, goblins, laboratory workers, etc. Then they had pumpkin decorating, coloring, fortune telling, and a DJ in the cafeteria/gym. The DJ stopped about half way through the party and had a couple of contests. Mark volunteered to help out not knowing what he was getting into. The first contest was a dress up relay race, so here is Matt finishing his dress up (with dad's help) and racing back to the finish line...

But wait, it gets better. The next event was to take teams of school kids and have them wrap the "adult volunteers" in toilet paper to resemble a mummy. I'm proud to say that Mark and his team of kids came in last, but I think they had the most fun trying to make it work. In the second photo, you can see the competition on the right side - they had a really tall girl on their team, so now we know the strategy for next year.

On top of all that, we decorated and carved pumpkins tonight and the boys are getting ready for the big parade and party tomorrow at school. Next week is all yogurt and low calorie/fat free food, ugh!