Halloween... finally posting!

Finally uploading my pics from Halloween. I am getting at bad at blogging as I am at journal writing. I don't know how to change my pics to get them in the correct order- I am still working on this blogging thing... hmmmmm.........

Because we had such a busy week prior to Halloween we didn't get to carve or in our case paint pumpkins untill the day of. I kept thinking we would do it one evening that week, but it seemed every night we had a meeting, or something. And to be honest we didn't get to a pumpkin patch until Thursday. I finally found a patch that a local farmer was doing, which I was thrilled about cause I would rather support a local farmer, than Walmart or Smith's. Plus, I think it is good for the kids. So I painted a pumpkin and so did Carter and Ella. Lincoln was sleeping and Matt was at work. It was fun! I think the kids really enjoyed it. I know my kidsa re naked- it is cause I don't let them paint with clothes on becuase we use acrylic paint, which totally stains clothes, but washed off skin easily! And lucky for Ella too, cause she looked like she was painting herself, as well as the pumpkin! Carter's face was painted by the way cause he came from school about 2 hours prior and they had to dress up!

So as you see from the pics above, which isn't the greatest picture, but we couldn't get Lincoln to be still, surprisingly!!!! So it is what it is! But obviously Carter is a ghost, Lincoln a dog and Ella is a cow. Man, the costumes were hard this year- not because I put all this effort into making them, but because you have never heard so many opinions regarding what the kids were going to be. Luckily Lincoln doesn't talk, not a word, yet, so he was easy! And he loved his costume and was so cute in it! So now Carter, every time I asked him what he wanted to be he said something different. Somethings were just too difficult, or required to much effort for me to make, and it just wasn't going to happen. He actually initially wanted to be what he was the 2 prior years, a dragon, but the costume doesn't fit anymore. A ghost was the only thing he said twice and it is luckily easy enough. And Ella, when I bought Lincoln's costume at Costco, like 6 weeks before Halloween Ella was with me and insisted on wanting the cow costume. It was cheap, so I bought it for her. Well, I think for those 5 minutes in the store looking at it was the only time she ever wanted to be a cow... I should have known better. Yet, it was wonderful the I had the costume for her cause it would have not been easy finding one for her in the middle of nowhere Iowa, sorry mom and dad. Ella wanted to be a Princess, like she was last year, which she tons of photos of. And last year she was a super cute princess, but here in Utah, you never know what the weather is going to be on Halloween and so I wanted something warm and not just cute! Unfortunately the costume was too small, which is why she isn't wearing the "hood" of it on her head. When we did try and do that, I was picking a wedgie out for her!!! Charming, I know. The size was 2T-4T and she is a 3T, but lesson learned- try the costume on before the night it is needed!

Halloween in our neighborhood was straight out of 1950's tv!!!! The weather was warm, although it did sprinkle some. The night was perfect because everyone was outside. I am not sure one doorbell was rung all evening. My neighbors sat on their front porch and gave out hot chocolate and doughnuts to the adults and big candy bars to the kids. Two doors down from them were sitting in their driveway with chips, bean dip and doughnuts! The neighborhood kids, which there are million, well, like over 50 10 and under were running all around. It was so fun to see every one's costumes. Several neighbors had haunted houses done up in their basements and all the outsides of houses were totally done up, well except for ours! It was soo fun! We have never lived in a neighborhood like that. Most of our houses had like 10 kids visit on Halloween- doesn't feel very halloweeny when that happens! But Halloween night was one of the best, maybe ever!!! I LOVED it!!!