Halloween 2025

We've had so much fun this Halloween, but at the same time it hasn't felt like it normally does. I think just because it got so busy with soccer and all the activities at the beginning of the month. However, we still squeezed in ways to celebrate when we could, so here's what our Halloween Season looked like this year:

-I watched ALL the scary movies and made sure to wear all my Halloween shirts as often as I could. I gained a few more shirts (which I didn't need, but it's SO hard to resist when they are so cute). We also pulled out our decorations at the beginning of the month. I used to be SO into decorating, but now it's always so overwhelming so I had the kids just pick what they wanted and put it wherever they wanted. I decided this year we're going to only have certain spots for decor and we'll switch it out each month/holiday and with that limited down it should make it feel not as chaotic to me.

-Getting costumes. We decided to get Cara's and Gwen's at Target since they were cheaper there. Cara earned money for a wand to go with it (We let Gwen get one with her costume since Cara already had a scarf). Lucy's we found on Walmart's online shop, she just really wanted something with a skirt that went straight out (so she's a ballerina for, like, the 3rd year in a row, haha). Pierce REFUSED any and all costumes, so we got him some cute pajama outfit that is Halloween themed. Larry is the Colossal Titan from Attack on Titan, so definitely freaky, haha. I couldn't find anything that coordinated with anyone else's so I just stuck with one of my (very many) Halloween shirts. They loved wearing them for our City Halloween event (it gave them an excuse to wear them early haha)

-Thriller with Mom (18th): I just HAD to bring the girls again. I absolutely love making this a tradition each year, although, Lucy still hates the walkers, but the girls love Bubbles. They had a couple new dances I didn't feel were as good as their others, but they changed up the regular ones and they are still awesome! They did this at the SLCC theater which was a bit smaller, but I think it gets the girls more excited to see dance now that they all do dance.

-One of our neighbors threw Halloween party the weekend before Halloween. I went into it thinking we'd visit, maybe snack, and leave, but it ended up being SO much fun! They had lots of food, we joked around with all the neighbors, and played a fun charades-type of game, it was women VS men and even though the men started to get ahead in the end us women won! I've always said I would love to start doing a Halloween party for the kids friends in the future, this really made me want to do it!

-The girls got to have Halloween parties during dance the week of Halloween. The kids had so much fun with these! They got to dress up, color, play games, do freeze dances, hear stories, and get goodie bags. I'm glad their dance place makes it extra fun for them!

-Drive around to check out decorations on the 28th. The kids said they were looking forward to this all week. This year, we went to further neighborhoods (because Larry saw some when taking Gwen to soccer and knew we'd have to check it out this night...it made me so happy he's getting more into it) and other parts of the neighborhoods we usually go to. Pierce fell asleep at the beginning so he missed all of it, no surprise there. I also got lots of fun ideas of things to add to our home for future years (Larry even said we need to amp up our yard decor and next year he'll turn the water off early so we can actually put our inflatables out).

-Carving pumpkins, we saved for the 30th (which I wish we would've done a little sooner since we decided to bake seeds again and it took SO long, but it was fine) We got our pumpkins on the 25th from Wal Mart, which was a first. It's always fun letting the kids pick the designs they want. Unfortunately, one of our pumpkins went bad (big crack on the bottom and it started to leak out), so Larry had to sacrifice his idea, but the baked seeds and final carvings turned out really good (Lucy chose the same thing as last year - ballerina. Cara chose the HP, Gwen chose "Trick or Treat" words. Pierce wanted a typical Jack-O-Lantern face).

-The kids had their usual Halloween parades this morning (except Pierce, who doesn't have school so he got to go to school in his "costume" on Thursday). Unfortunately, they were both at the same time, so Larry had to go to Cara's and I went to Lucy's and Gwen's (since it was Lucy's first one). We both recorded the kids so we could each see them in their parade. Gwen and Lucy's was fun, I ended up being next to the guy Kinder teacher's wife so it was fun chit chatting with her and there was a guy from New Zealand on the other side of me, who had a lot to say about the differences between American Halloween and what he's used to (we do it big, what can we say? haha) and told us about his experience with Covid in another country (he thought for sure it was a death sentence). My favorite part of these is when the kids see you and just light up! I was smart this year and used PTO for this time away (instead of trying to make up the time later), which was nice because I could stay there after dropping the girls off and take my time rather. I even made sure to buy all the kids some "boo grams" they were selling (which turned out to be purple colored lemon lime suckers shaped like a skull), so they were excited for that.

We braided the older girls hair for a "Hermione" effect
And Lucy got a ballerina bun and red slippers, of course!

And, of course, Trick or Treating tonight! We had a lot of fun with that, but Pierce was done by the 5th house (we did start early so we hit up some houses that weren't ready in the beginning). I told him he had to keep going to get more candy and he'd say "I have enough candy" and when I told him we had to keep going he said "fine, but this is the last one" for each house. Gwen and Lucy wanted to quit by the mail boxes (we had 2 turns left, so I told them since we had 2 more turns that we might as well do the ones we haven't hit). I totally made them push through and told them they'd be happy they got more candy (which they are).

So even though it felt chaotic, it was a very fun season and I look forward to the rest of Fall time!