Halloween Happenings

Our kids love carving pumpkins, or actually they love watching dad carve pumpkins because nobody likes cleaning out the pumpkins. It took a lot of convincing before Lyda and Kode would help clean them out. But there was absolutely no way Ruby was going to help. It totally grossed her out. This year we just had the kids draw the faces on that they wanted and then we cut them out for them. We had some very interesting looking faces.








Kode went easy on me this year and wanted a store bought Transformers costume. The past two years we have had to be creative when making his costume.


Ruby was a fairy princess, or something. She begged for the wings at the beginning of September and we sort of built her costume from there. Whatever she was, she was pretty darn cute.


Lyda was our creative one this year. She had initially envisioned every member of our family as somebody from the movie Princess Mononoke. But the other kids had other ideas. She stuck with the idea and I think she made a great princess. She was a little frustrated that everyone thought she was an Indian princess. Guess not everybody watches Miyazaki movies like we do. She is in total character in this picture.


We trick-or-treated at a couple of the neighbors houses. We always start with grandma and grandpa's house.






After we visited grandma and grandpa, we finished up the evening at the church party. We love this party. The kids are contained in a backyard, they can play games, see their friends and get half the candy they would if they went door to door.


Overall, I would say that Halloween was a success. And of course the kids are already planning their costumes for next year.