The Halloween Extravaganza has Begun!

"AAARRGGHHH Pirates!"

We went to a children's Halloween party today at Geoff's work. I know I am biased but I LOVED them in their little pirate costumes. And W must have enjoyed being a pirate because he surprised us by wearing the hat the eNtIrE time...including for an hour before the party and for about an hour and a half after the party. Jack didn't have much for it though. He humored us by wearing it for about 5 minutes while we took these outdoor pics and for the parade. I really really like this picture. It makes me smile big:

Still running (at the building before going into the party):

J in a rare moment with the hat on:

The boys had plenty of treats at the party. They started out the sugar-fest first with dum dum lollypops:

and moved on to pretzel rods and newton pops:

Then they filled their homemade paper bag with more goodies including goldfish, teddy grahams, M&Ms, fruit snacks, pumpkin medallions, crayons, play tatoos, and mini play doh containers. Then they did a fishing game in which they scored three matchbox cars each. And they made sure to get a couple of more dum dum lollypops after the pumpkin pinata was busted open. It was a challenging pinata....all the kids at the party had a few whacks at it and it wasn't budging. So one of the dads had to beat it to a pulp.

After all those goodies, the boys kept a close (clutch) grip hold on their treat bags:

Here is W checking out what J got in his gift bag:

J trying to swat at the pinata:

W's turn!

J proudly/smugly marching through the end-of-the-party parade set to Michael Jackson's Thriller jamming in the background: