Happy Halloween!!

Fall is my favorite time of year. I love the cool crisp mornings that make you want to snuggle up. And Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. This year Halloween just seemed to slip by. I did a lot of Flu Clinics this year and somehow didn't get but 2 decorations up. My poor kids were begging to put stuff up. And now it is over. Hopefully I can impress them with Christmas. It is just around the corner you know!!

To begin our fall festivities we went to a small pumpkin patch of sorts (more like a road side stand). The kids were excited to pick out their own pumpkins. I told them one each and somehow we ended up with eight pumpkins!!

Jon loved this picture of Jackson so I had to share it.

Picking out the perfect pumpkin Jon was trying to save this pumpkin from Jackson, who was playing ball with it!! We carved a cat into this pumpkin and it turned out amazingly good. Our only error was doing it on Monday, by Wed. it was really wilted. I even put it in the fridge. And I forgot to get a pic Very excited to see the goopey guts of the pumpkin.
Drawing her pumpkins face! This was the face that Olivia drew on her pumpkin. She even got to cut out some of it. She decided it was too hard.

Cute little pumpkin head!

Jackson was not so excited about the pumpkin goop. This is a look of disgust after sticking his hand in the pumpkin. He was so funny to watch, his expressions were GREAT!Mr. Pumpkin HeadJackson was a cute SKUNK this year. I thought it was fitting since I always call him a little "stinker" Katie finally decided she would be ballerina of sorts. This was an old costume we had for Olivia. Katie refused to wear the bumble bee costume that I made her. She was insistent on being a Pink Ballerina and would settle for nothing less. I did get her to wear it from the car to the church building for a play group activity. And after shedding the bumblebee tutu she said she was a black ballerina (she was wearing a black leotard). You could say she is particular!! I wonder where she gets that?

Olivia on the other hand was the subject of envy. She was a pink ballerina. She loved this pretty ballerina dress that Noni sent. Thank you Noni.Just before we went Trick~or~Treating.

We made these cute bat hats with our play group. Thanks Brooke for such a fun day. You did a great job putting it all together.

Olivia with her pink nose (from a stamp).

Katie and another one of her great faces!

Jackson being his sweet little self. He is so full of smiles lately.

After going to the church to do some Trunk~or~Treating, play some games and eat some chili, we headed home to hand out candy. This is how our Halloween evening ended. Olivia pulled a chair up to the front door and waited for some kids to come. Luckily we did get a few, or we would have had one disappointed little girl.