This is Halloween, Halloween

Since it's been a month since Halloween, I thought I'd finally get around to blogging about it!

This year was so much fun. Halloween is a lot different with a house and a baby. We loved decorating our house, dressing Jaden up, taking him trick-or-treating to some of the neighbors, and handing out candy to all the kids who came to our door.

We had a week's worth of festivities before the actual holiday rolled around. First, a town in our area had a mid-week Halloween parade so we got to see fun costumes, hear a bunch of high school bands and wave at the cool small town floats.

We went to a pumpkin carving Halloween party put on by some of our friends from our previous ward. Jaden was pretty excited about all those pumpkins.

Saturday was our ward Halloween party put on by the Young Women and Young Men. Sadly I didn't get any pictures...?!?! It was dinner and trunk-or-treating, but unfortunately it was too cold for us to actually use our trunks. So no worries, we just trick-or-treated in the building instead! The YW/YM also held a dessert auction as a fundraiser for their camps this coming year. I may or may not have spent $45 on the most amazing/deathly butterscotch caramel cheesecake our friend Camille made. Steve and I shared one piece when we got home and he took the rest to work with him. It was intense stuff and there's no way we could have finished it.

On Monday--the actual holiday--Jaden and I went to see Daddy at work so everybody could see him in his little chicken costume.

I may be biased, but I thought he made a pretty cute chicken. :)

I surprised Steve with a Halloween dinner when he got home from work. We had butternut squash soup and salad. It was basically the same meal we had at the Howell Halloween party in Utah, so I wanted to recreate it for Steve since he missed out on that one.

Then it was trick-or-treating time! Jaden loved seeing all the kids coming to the door and couldn't wait to head out himself!

We very daringly set our candy bowl out on our front door step so we could both go with Jaden to visit some neighbors. To our surprise (and disappointment) there was still quite a bit of candy when we got back. Every single Reeses was gone though, darn it :).

There is a house close to us that TOTALLY goes ALL out with their decorations. It's like an outdoor Halloween museum. We had to go check it out to finish out our night!