Halloween!

We had a great Halloween this year... there was much anticipation between Allison and Lauren. Grandma Tew sent us a CD of Halloween music that the kids LOVED...especially Lauren...and we listened to it a LOT during the month of October. So much that the songs have been stuck in my head pretty much all the time and we have most of it memorized. It should be nice to put that one away for a while :) Although, I'm sure it will be requested again soon...

For Lauren's preschool party we got to bring the "special treat" so we brought...

Spider cupcakes! We had fun with that...

Allison took a field trip with the kindergarten classes to a pumpkin patch and picked out her very own pumpkin... Unfortunately Lauren was sick the day preschool had their pumpkin patch field trip, but her teacher brought back an extra pumpkin for her. Here are the girls scooping out their pumpkin guts, and Megan watching.

Allison LOVES putting her hands inside and squeezing all the squishy stuff. Lauren, on the other hand, did NOT want to touch it! She got a few of the seeds out with a spoon and had me help her with the rest.

Here are the girls with their carved pumpkins. They drew out pictures of what they wanted first and Matt and I carved them.

Silly girls!

On the day of Halloween Allison decided she wanted to make cards to hand out to the people who gave her candy. Here she is with her little stack of cards...

The one on top has a riddle on it: What did one ghost say to the other ghost? (Answer: Boo!). On each one she wrote her name and "Happy Halloween" and drew a picture inside of pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, etc. She carried them in her treat bucket and handed them out as we went along. The recipients seemed to genuinely appreciate her cards. One older lady seemed particularly pleased and told her she was going to put it up by her computer. After we left her doorstep, she came back out and said it was the first time a trick-or-treater had given HER anything before. Another lady gave her a "bunch" of candy in return. Great job, Allison!

And here are our little witches. Thanks, Grandmas, for making their costumes. They received many compliments!


And here is our little dragon...isn't she cute??

Megan was really tired by trick-or-treat time so we weren't sure how she was going to handle it. She had no problems though! She LOVED it!! Once she figured out there was candy involved, she got really into it. She was one happy girl--as long as you didn't take her candy away--and anxiously walked her way to the next house.

Hope you had a HAPPY HALLOWEEN too!!