Halloween Part 1

Yesterday was just slightly on the other side of ridiculously insane!! This year, Halloween was "my baby". We've been planning and trying to get everything pulled together for weeks. Thankfully, things worked out so that I had this whole week off to work on things. Each kids class had a little Halloween party. I love seeing all the different costume ideas. There are some VERY creative moms out there!!
Preston's class. His teacher is the clown and the teachers assistant is the Devil. (She was so flippin' creepy!)
Mr. and Mrs. Fuson with Miss Forbush the student teacher. (Morgan's teacher)

MOGO... SOOOO CUTE!
Morgan's class.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it down to Shelby's class this year. Things got a little crazy from that point on.....
I decided to mix the Halloween carnival up a little this year. In the past we've always done typical carnival games (fish pond, toss games etc) I didn't want to get rid of that because the kids LOVE it, but I wanted to add some stuff for the older kids. We had 7 games plus a "Mad Scientist". We have a dad that teaches science at SUU, so he came and did all kinds of cool science tricks for the kids. (I was cramped for time so I wasn't able to get a ton of great pictures.)
Here is Morgan at the fish pond. The carnival ended up being her favorite part. She and her friends spent most of the night trying to get as much candy as possible at the games.
Last February, the PTA President decided to have a Family Dance. The kids had a ball so we decided to add it to the Halloween mix. We got one of the teachers to DJ it for us in the gym. This was BY FAR Preston's favorite part of the whole night. HE ROCKED OUT!!! It's fun to watch my kids "hang out" with all of their little friends. They each have their little groups. It's cute! Here is Preston with his friends Daxton and Amaya. (Yes, Preston has a friend that is a girl, but he's very quick to tell you "she's not my giwlfriend.. she's just a friend dat's a giwl even dough she wikes boys stuff." ...she's a total tomboy hahaha )

Shelby and her friend Maddie at the dance. (Her dad is the scientist.)
The big thing for the night was the Spook Alley. It took LOTS of time to plan, but I think it was WELL worth it. Once again, I didn't get the greatest pictures but here are a few (keep in mind that the flash lit up the room, but the lights were all off and we had black light highlighting everything, You couldn't really see the school walls that you see in the pictures.)

This was the first thing you saw when you walked in. The snakes eyes lit up and it played music. We're the "Rattlers" so I thought this was PERFECT!
Next was my Zombie (AKA Jana Milletts new BF..sorry Coby HA!) Between the snake and this, quite a few kids turned around and left! HA!
After that, they turned a corner and had to duck under spider webs. As they were crouched down, a giant spider came out after them.... around the next corner, there was someone with a shopvac blasting them with air. (I have to say Mr. Carter was AWESOME. He actually chased them with the hose, screaming at them) Next was a witches kitchen. One of the teachers dressed up like a witch and cackled as the kids went by. She was GREAT!!! (I would have been screwed without Jackie's help throughout the day! She's amazing!) Next they had to crawl through a tunnel that had strobe lights and things dangling down on top of them.
After that, there was the crazy surgeons O.R. (This is Amaya's dad and one of Morgan's soccer coaches.) This is how he waited for the kids...
Then he'd walk around and throw bloody body parts around as they walked by. He was great!
After leaving the Dr.'s office... they entered the graveyard... (much like what happens when you leave one of our many local Dr.'s offices).... As they walked by, they were focusing on the graveyard and shying away from the coffin.. so we had someone with these fake hands grabbing them from behind....
That, of course, would push them towards the coffin and Chris would jump out at them....
As they ran from Chris, my friend Jana was hiding behind the scarecrow and sprayed them with silly string (she ran out of silly string and resorted to wearing Preston's mask and jumping out to scare them) ....
At the end we had a big candy bowl waiting for them....

Between Mr. Carter (a teacher at the school and Morgan's friend Lainee's dad), Ryan (their soccer coach) and Chris... Morgan and her friends got a HEAVY dose of scare!!!!! At one point they decided to fight back and took a can of silly string with them. They thought that was the funniest thing EVER!!! After a couple of times, the older kids decided that the spook alley was "not scary" but they kept going through it over and over again because, "it's not scary, but it's still fun."

It was a lot of work, but it came together great and the kids seemed to LOVE it! Well worth all the stress!