Halloween 2014

We did it - another Halloween in the books!  I took the day off to clean the house, get prepared for the evening, etc. and instead fell asleep and took a long nap.  Pregnancy really screws with your ability to get stuff done!

I did manage to wake up in time to head to the elementary school and watch the costume parade.  Logan decided to go with astronaut for school, and vampire for trick or treating.  Joey was a skeleton for school and a ghoul for trick or treating.  Emmie was the cutest witch on the planet for both!

Costume Parade

Kindergarten class pic

Seriously the cutest!

We got home to find a pumpkin full of chocolates at our front step from neighbors we don't really know. So sweet of them!  Logan immediately began working on a thank you note for them (I was so proud!).

Trick or Treating with our neighbors and their extended family was a ton of fun as usual.  We are so lucky to live next door to such wonderful people.  They have become great friends to all of us, we have never in our lives had neighbors like this and it is awesome!

At every door Logan said, "trick or treat!  Do you have Kit Kats or M&Ms?" and Emmie made sure to say, "thank you" then proudly informed her daddy (after every single house!) that she said thank you.  Two solid hours of trick or treating and Logan proclaimed this was, "the best Halloween ever!" - Until next year!

We missed Cheri last night though!  A bad cold had her out for the night which was a total bummer.  Hard to believe next year we will have another little one in tow - actually two more little ones in tow since our friends Easy and Christina are expecting too.  How fun!

Pumpkin Carving

Pumpkin carving with little kids is basically them telling you how they want their pumpkins to look and you having to do all the work.  We had 7 pumpkins to carve this year thanks to various field trips, and despite our intentions of purchasing a fancy saw (they were out at Lowes and Home Depot) we were stuck with those little kid-safe plastic pieces of crap to carve them with. Needless to say my hand was cramped for hours after I carved 5 of them!

At one point Joey actually said, "okay I drew the face, let me know when it's done" and went back inside to watch a movie.  Oh well, it was still fun and the fire pit and hot chocolate made it even better than last year. 

Dave's Pumpkin Patch ~ 2013

We did manage to squeeze in a trip to our local pumpkin patch before Halloween.  We are lucky to live 5 minutes from a pretty cool one, so a Sunday night trek was totally doable.  Plus I got a Groupon so had to use that!

Emmie was more than happy to let her brothers bury her in corn kernels.

And then she decided to take a nap all snuggled up in corn...

Corn Angels

5th Annual Halloween Party

We did it!  Another successful Halloween party!  We partnered with our family friend Christina again this year, moved it to the Boathouse Community Room (to spare our houses), and sugared the kids up for a couple hours of Halloween fun.

Below are some of the highlights from the party and the party prep.  Looking forward to next year - it gets better every year!

Food ID signs thanks to the dollar bins at Target

I made these treat bags for all the kids to store their candy, prizes from games, and craft projects they made at the party.

My favorite new treat this year - "Monster Mallows" 
Marshmallows dipped in colored chocolate with sprinkles for hair and candy eyes.

Mummy juice boxes

The kids all helped with all the food for the party.  Here is Logan with the sprinkles.

White chocolate dipped pretzels.

A returning favorite, owl cupcakes.

Monster/vampire cupcakes

Cuz that's how Logan rolls...

Dance Party!

Me and the little lion Emmie