Halloween take THREE
Sunday, November 01, 2009 - Posted by Sunny - 5 comments
**WARNING: Very long post and lots of pictures**

We had three Halloweens this year. Three different Halloween events...and it was exhausting but SOO much fun!

First up was the ward/neighborhood trunk or treat and Halloween carnival on Wednesday. For this event Hyrum wore his Mickey Mouse costume again because it was going to be COLD, and outside for part of it so we busted out the costume from last year. It fit him better than last year and this year he's actually going to MEET Mickey so I figured that it would be alright.

Yes he kissed the pavement AGAIN! Off the concrete stairs AGAIN! I wonder if our next one will have a better relationship with the stairs.

Hyrum got the hang of this trick or treating stuff quick and sometimes even said "trick or treat" too. He has been SOOO excited about Halloween this year ever since I pulled out the decorations. He even loved the scary decorations, although I'm sure he had a few nightmares because of them.

When we went into the carnival Hyrum did some pumpkin rolling...

Some fish ponding...

Ring "tossing" ( actually for Hyrum it was more like ring placing!)...


And even a little cat walking...

That was that event. Then two days later (one of those Hyrum didn't see his dad at all) was the Omniture Halloween Horror Horrah ( aka Omniture (an Adobe company) Halloween INSANITY!)

Ok first of all I have a problem. For some reason I always take pictures when I should take a video and I always take videos when I should take pictures. One of these years I'm going to get it right but in the meantime this doesn't do it justice (as if ANYTHING can)

Hyrum wore his new hand me down Blue's Clues "Blue" costume. He was BEYOND excited to wear it because Papa brought him Blue's Clues DVD's and he watched it altogether TOO MUCH.

He kept running around saying "BA BOW!" I of course not being able to think of another costume was "Steve" it was pretty lack luster and I don't think many people got it but at least I knew what I was.

At Omniture ( an Adobe company) they had Looney Tune sections...





Star Wars sections...

This is one of the times when I should have taken a video rather than pictures. They had a green screen set up so you could watch yourselves lightsaber fight up on the big screen they had set up in a conference room. Hyrum lightsaber fights with anyone and everyone who will with him all the time. He fights with paper towel rolls, wrapping paper rolls, spoons, pens even down to just his hands but when he saw himself on the screen with Star Wars characters...he was awestruck.

He didn't show up very good on the screen because he was wearing just the right shade of blue so you could really only see his face.

He even got to meet Darth Vader...he wasn't sure what to think of that or the rest of them...

As you can see there was plenty of fog makers in the area. :)

They also had a Flintstone section

Stimpsons section

A Care Bear section

A Peter Pan section

"flying" over London


A Pac Man section



And of course they saved the best section for last...the section that Derek and my dad worked on...The Star Trek: The Next Generation section.

It all started with a crashed shuttle on an alien planet...

This was WAY too long in coming! So many people have said how much my dad looks like Capt. Jean Luc Picard. It was so fun to really make him look like him. I should have gotten pictures of him checking himself out in the mirror. I really think he liked it too. :)

Anyway as you enter the shuttle (Derek was the shuttle team lead) you are asked to put on some "gamma ray protection eyewear" ( which were chromadepth glasses ) and they gave everything a 3D quality. It was really cool and again none of this does it justice.






This isn't even pictures of everything we saw when we were there. Once again it was amazing and Hyrum left with a sufficient sugar rush.

The next day was the actual day. We only planned to go to 4 or 5 houses but as soon as we got Hyrum into his Mickey Mouse costume again and put a pumpkin in his hand he was ready to get more candy.


We'd go to one house and coach him to say "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you" and "Happy Halloween" as soon as we got off the porch he was pointing at the next house saying "MORE CANDY!" The next thing we knew we were half way around the neighborhood.

At one house we were so hovering in our coaching that the home owner seemed convinced we were training a "Stepford child" we laid off a bit more after that and he did it all on his own without any coaching by the end. He loved it all and we all had the time of our lives as well.




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5 comments:

    Stephen and Gabrielle said...

    Love the Stepford comments:) Just the reminder that I need to lay off the kids a little bit!

  1. ... on November 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM  
    2. Brei said...

    That Omniture party looks like a blast! And Kyle will gladly be Hy's light saber dueling partner anytime!

  2. ... on November 2, 2009 at 4:25 PM  
    3. Harrisons said...

    Don't apologize for too many pictures. It's so fun to see the creativity of all the Halloween loving co-workers! Thanks for sharing.

  3. ... on November 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM  
    4. Nikki said...

    jean luc!!!!!!

    LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT ALL!!!

  4. ... on November 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM  
    5. Jenn J. said...

    Oh gosh! It's all so darling, and creative, and awesome. Looks like you guys had plenty of celebrating. Hy is, of course, as handsome as ever. I agree... never too many pictures. But speaking of, shouldn't we be documenting a certain "weight gain" situation?? :)

  5. ... on November 10, 2009 at 8:36 PM  
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