Halloween

Its Trick-or-Treat time!! In years past I had made costumes for the kids, which I enjoyed especially the Cinderella and Snow White costumes. I thought about doing it again this year, but Matthew wanted to be Batman...I can't make a Batman costume!! So we go looking for Batman costumes, you'd think every boy wanted to be Batman this year because we had a hard time finding one in his size! After searching every rack at several store we finally found one

that fit!!

I thought that if Matthew is Batman I guess we'll dress Tyler up at Robin! Great, we have the boys squared away! Tyler was the easiest since he didn't have much of an opinion on what he wanted to be. And he looks so darn cute in that outfit!

Amanda, wanted to be a kitty cat, a black one with pink in the ears, but then she wanted to be a fairy, then a kitty-fairy (yeah, I don't know either). Well we could find a black cat with pink in the ears, and she didn't like the fairy costumes. She went as Ariel instead.

They all had a blast Trick-or-Treating, even Tyler got the hang of

holding out the bucket for candy!

Pumpkin Carving

For Halloween this year we got a pumpkin for everyone in the family. Two big ones for Mom and Dad, and three small ones for Amanda, Matthew, and Tyler. We each picked out our own pumpkins, at our local pumpkin patch (aka Kroger). Since no one and I do mean no one is brave enough to gut the pumpkins for carving, it falls to mommy to brave the orange squishyness.

Amanda wanted a princess pumpkin. I carved hers with a pretty smile and round eyes with eye lashes.

Matthew wanted a scary face on his pumpkin. Daddy carved his with fangs and mean eyes.

Tyler wanted nothing to do with the pumpkins. Mommy carved a silly face on his.

Daddy did an awesome Haunted house on his with a tree on the side and a moon and clouds. All free hand I might and NO pattern!! All the trick-or-treaters were impressed with the pumpkin.

Mommy carved out "Happy Halloween" with a witch on hers. I'm not sure about daddy but my hand sure hurts after all that carving!!