Halloween 2012

It's time for ghosts and goblins to come out and play.  This time last year I had a pumpkin in my belly; this year my little pumpkins have been gearing up for Halloween for weeks.

We took advantage of a rare free Sunday a couple weekends ago and hit up a pumpkin farm with our buds, the Willes.  They have two of the cutest girls you've ever seen, and the four kiddos together were adorbs.  The place we went decided to be all fancy this year and we discovered - too late - that they wanted like $8 a person to go on a hayride.  Uhh, veto.  So we decided to pass on spending $32 for a few gourds and instead let the kids run around all the free stuff.  Let me give a public shout out to Joe Suburb though for introducing us to what could be the best kettle corn I have ever had.  Holla!

As the kids started to melt down we decided to hit the road, swing through the Golden Arches, and head back to the Willes for a little lunch & football.  Two dozen wings arrived and Dan and Matt immediately disappeared.  What can I say, it's not often that we can schedule a playdate with those boys.  They missed each other.  The big girls ran themselves ragged and everyone enjoyed looooooong naps that afternoon. 

lift with your knees!

ry at 3 and g at 4

and l at almost 1

are our moms seriously still trying to take our picture?

g to ry: let's be all 'extreme photo face'.  ry to g: um, i don't think so.

when we used to take pics like this, it was with bars and boys, not minivans and babies

pretty proud of himself

luke is once again not amused!

hey sis, whaddya say we get outta here

fam (props to erin for capturing a shot which did not include a car or some random person in the background!)

We carved our pumpkins on Friday night.  Luke stuck around for long enough to check out what this carving business was all about but then he was down for the count.  It was up to G and daddy to create our jack-o-lanterns and they took it pretty seriously.

family carving pic

and with our spooky pumpkin faces

getting down to business

baby and his pumpkin

mmmm, cool and mushy.  nothing better for incoming teeth

assisting with the carving

final product #1!

When I came back downstairs after putting L down, GG and Matt had carved the other two pumpkins.  Genevieve volunteered to show me their faces:

Saturday night was Trick or Treat in the Grove.  As we transition from 2 naps a day to 1, I have to be more and more regimented with Lukie's schedule.  Dinner really needs to be in front of him by about 5:29 so we can avoid a meltdown and get to bed by 7:30.  Not so much for Saturday night (he gets a pass though as there are four teeth coming in right now.  The only thing I did less than shower last weekend was sleep.  Poor Boo Boo!)

tolerating the dino costume

see mom?  i'm smiling

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand done

our little meower

and her tail (note the kalua in the background for mommy's special trick or treat hot chocolate)

ready to go!

not impressed

now that she's 4 - aka all grown up - she took off like a rocket to go from door to door.  it was fun to see her feel so much more confident in the whole process this year.  ps, sorry for blogging your house, neighbors

luke can't take the wagon anymore so he does a little street crawlin

loot!

There are some Halloween activities tonight in the Village which we are choosing not to attend.  Having done trick or treat four days ago makes Halloween seem like it has already come and gone.  Plus I haven't showered today.  So unless I truly want to scare all the children, maybe we'll just call it a night.