Halloween

Instead of playing catch-up (which I again need to do...) I'm just going to pretend that I am not a month behind in updating this little piece of history. Yesterday was Halloween. It was an absolutely gorgeous day. Mike and Alex spent a good chunk of the morning clearing some trees/brush from the backyard while I took Ben to the park to play for a bit. After lunch and a nice long nap, it was time to carve our pumpkins. Actually, Mike and I carved while Alex & Ben painted. This was the 2nd round of paint for the boys pumpkins. We went pumpkin picking a couple of weeks ago and shortly there after Alex and Ben put the first coat of paint on their pumpkins. We got some very heavy rain and all the paint washed right off! So we now have paint circles on the front porch, hopefully those will wash right off too.

Anyway,the real festivities started soon after the pumpkin carving/painting. We took the finished masterpieces around front and discovered that one of our neighbors had set up a ping-pong table in the cul-de-sac. From there on out it became a sort of neighborhood (or at least our little cul-de-sac) block party. At some point we broke away from the fun, fed the kiddos dinner and got them ready for trick-or-treating. I took them down the street, initially only stopping at a couple of houses where we knew the neighbors pretty well. They were having such a good time though, that we ended up stopping at just about all of the houses on our street. I took them back to the little party and handed them off to Daddy. Mike then took them up another street. They were both having a great time. Alex loved ringing the doorbell and saying trick-or-treat. Ben insisted that the candy be put in his hand and then he would put it in his bag. At some point near the end of the walk, Ben's bag sprung a leak and by the time he came home it was completely empty. Fortunately, he didn't care, in fact I don't think he had any clue he lost his loot. I'm pretty sure it was the fault of those darn oranges someone snuck in there! Anyway, we all had a great time and here are some pictures for you.