Happy Halloween!

Halloween fun actually started at the beginning of Oct. for us. We went to our first Halloween playdate the first week of the month. Alex got to color pumpkins, make a hand-print bat, and do all sorts of other halloween-y art projects.

We headed out to Sweet Berry farm the next week for pumpkin picking. Daddy came with us and we had a great time. We took a hayride (a first for both the boys), saw horses, donkeys, goats walking up trees, and lots of other fun stuff. A good time was had by all!

Our next little halloween activity was painting the pumpkins we bought at the farm. Alex had so much paint on his hands he was the only kid that had to be hosed off! I thought his pumpkin would never dry. An interesting little side note to this, the painted pumpkin has been sitting outside for a couple of weeks now. The paint is starting to peel off the pumpkin, but it looks really cool and is totally in the "eerie" spirit of halloween!

Then the parties started. We had 3 parties in 4 days. I was exhausted, Alex and Ben had a blast. Somewhere along the line I found time to make a couple of costumes. I'm glad we have had so many opportunities to wear them.

I forgot to mention that prior to today, Alex would only wear his almost too small cowboy costume from last year. And, thanks Grammy, Grandpa, Grandma Rita, Great Grandma and Grandpa B., and Great Aunt Jane for all the cool halloween toys & treats!!