Happy Halloween

I love Halloween. I love the whole month of October with it's crispiness and cooler weather. I love the amazing fall colors and falling leaves. I love visiting the pumpkin patch and watching Chris carve the pumpkins with the kids. I love the creative costumes and the giddy anticipation of the kids for trick-or-treating. I love all of it. Having just pledged that loving ode to October though, I could do without waking up on November 1st to the ridiculous mountain of candy procured the night before and my darling kids asking every 5 minutes for just one more piece of it :). Ahhh, opposition in all things.

Happy Halloween...

Nicholas and his pumpkin before...

and after...

Some of our favorite friends come over every year to eat, play and carve pumpkins. This year the kids created and ate mummy dogs while the adults feasted on Andrea's homemade chicken and dumplings. These are the carvings that came from the evening together...

The 1st grade Halloween party was fun - it was at 9 o'clock in the morning if you can believe it but still a lot of fun. The kids decorated sugar cookies (of course), played games, make jack-o-lanterns out of Satsuma oranges and made gak - which was the highlight of the party for both Grace and Olivia. What more could a 1st grader ask for?

And the costumes...Mocky and daddy spent many nights creating his car costume. Many coats of spray paint went into that creation and Mocks was thrilled with the result. Olivia was a darling witch and thanks to Mom, Grace was the cutest clown that ever was. Nicholas was sick on Halloween and went to bed early, but we put him in his sweet elephant costume for the pictures.





Happy Halloween!