Halloween

Our Halloween was not nearly as exciting as my friend Suzzanne, who is living in Nottingham, England right now. William and I went to Boo at the Zoo on Saturday the 25th. He dressed up as Darth Vader and carried his Darth Vader head as his candy catcher. It was WAY cute. It was kind of crazy though, because there were bees everywhere at the entrance of the Zoo. This little kid got stung on the face by a bee. It was crazy. This is Will blocking the way of the kid who got stung.
William was really tired and so I gave him his binky to calm him down. We waited for Donald and Michelle at the front entrance. This is Will sitting with his Chewbacca and his binky waiting for Donald and Michelle.
When they got there, we went into the zoo and hung around in line for movie passes waiting for Matt. They also had chocolate milk and milk nog, so we got some. If you have never had milk nog, it's half egg nog and half milk. I like it better because it isn't as heavy.This is Will with his chocolate milk mustache.

When Matt got there we went to the parade. All the kids lined up and marched to some music. It was soooooo cute. Matt and Will got distracted by the sea lions who's enclosure they were supposed to be marching around, so I didn't get any pictures from that, but it was still cute.

We just wandered around going to the tables that had candy. Will tried to say "Trick or Treat" but it came out "teet". It was cute. The zoo had a haunted pirate ship in the old gorilla enclosure. They really went all out. It was very cool.This is the entrance with a skeleton. This is the shark on the haunted pirate ship who has a skeleton in it's mouth.

We stopped to pat the Buddha's belly and pose with him.Will patting Buddha's belly like Daddy showed him.
Will posing with Donald and Buddah. You can't tell, but Will is folding his arms just like Donald.
On our way out of the zoo we stopped by a table that had a warthog painted behind the table. Will ran over to it and called it "Pum" because it looked like Pummba from The Lion King. It was so cute.

At the exit they had tractors that kids were pedling. Will was too little to be able to pedal the tractor himself so Matt and I took turns pushing him around. It was pretty hard because you had to bend over so far plus you had to steer while pushing. Will enjoyed it though, so that is all that matters.After the pushing and trick or treating it was time for a snack. Even Darth Vader has to have a snack. Darth Will had juice and a candy bar. It was the only time I could keep Will's "hat" on because it was too big and had no way to stay on his head.
This is Darth Will wiping his face after his snack. Just because he is a super villan doesn't mean he can't be clean, right?
On Wednesday night we went to my in-law's ward's Trunk or Treat. My father in law went way crazy and decorated his truck to the hilt. It was so awsome. He was the only one that got crazy. There were only two other cars that bothered to do any decorations at all. Maybe Dale will have inspired others to decorate next year. I guess we will see.
This is the driver of the truck.

On Halloween night Will and I picked up my friend Dave and drove out to his sister, Trisha's house. Trisha has three kids, the youngest of which thinks Will is his best friend. We went Trick or Treating with them. I left my camera at home that night by accident, so I don't have any pictures of the event. Dave's mom Patty took her camera though, so I bet I could get some from her.

After the first few houses Will got the hang of it and didn't need me to hold his hand. He would run up to the houses with the other kids and elbow his way to the front of the line. A couple of times I thought he was going to go into the houses, he got so close. He and Brady (the three year old) ran around through the neighborhood. After a while Will wanted to eat candy and wasn't as interested in getting more candy. He was so overwhelmed, but it was great. I hope we can go next year too.