Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween. This morning Madeleine had her party at school. I took the two little girls up to school and we joined in the fun. Unfortunately, right before we left for the school Miriam had a costume meltdown--it was ouchy and she refused to wear it. Fortunately, she has plenty of princess clothes to wear as costumes. Originally Miriam was going to be a fairy like Madeleine; instead Miriam was Cinderella. Because of the costume meltdown I forgot the camera, and I didn't get any pictures from school.

But I got plenty of pictures at home. This evening we went out and Trick-or-Treated on our block. Our block is crazy with trick-or-treaters. We have over 30 kids who live on our block. And since our block is so much fun, lots of people come to our block to trick-or-treat. So basically it was like a huge block party from 6-7:30 pm tonight. Heck, some of the houses even had treats for us adults.

Here is our little pumpkin with our pumpkin. Amanda got to stay up late and enjoy the fun. She had a great time watching all the kids walk around.

Joel did a great job of carving our pumpkin. Madeleine said she wanted a scary pumpkin. I think that Joel did a pretty good job of making it scary.


Miriam was quick to bust open some of her candy when we got home. The girls did pretty good--I limited them to two pieces of candy tonight and they didn't complain.


Here is part of the trick-or-treating gang. They actually were running around with about 10 kids but they were all moving from house to house so quickly that I couldn't get a picture of the whole group.


Every year, one of our neighbors hosts a pumpkin carving party the weekend before Halloween. Below is their yard. Aren't those pumpkin totem poles so awesome?!? They lit them up with Christmas lights. It was so cool!!

Here are the girls with their night in shining armor, i.e. the neighbor Joey.