BOO

The week before Halloween is the 3rd hardest holiday for parents (Birthdays and Christmas take first and second in my book). Days ahead we run off to pumpkin patches, church carnivals, shop for the RIGHT costume and face make-up, carve pumpkins and then FINALLY the day arrives. We are then forced to entertain our children (if they aren't off at school yet) until sundown. Among all the chaos I love it! I love the cooler weather, seeing the kids excited, having an excuse to eat more chocolate and need I say more?

This year Larry attempted to appease the girls by carving Cinderella and her Pumpkin Carriage. He did a wonderful job!!

I was really surprised that Sydney had no qualms about sticking her hands in the gushy pumpkin guts and it was Emma that wouldn't have anything to do with it!

As for the costumes I do have to admit it is partially my fault for loving musicals. I've created Sydney into another fanatic! She loves "High School Musical". I'm not sure if she even knows what High School is, considering she hasn't even made it into Kindergarten yet...But she loves to sing and dance (I also blame that on Ella Romney and Sunshine Generation). Hence she was Gabriella. And I love the fact she even sang to me one of her songs!! Go Syd!!

("Soarin', Flyin', There's not a star in heaven that we can't reach.")

Emma defaulted into Little Red Ridding Hood. I'm not sure she really cared what she was. Since I am strongly against dressing up for Halloween as a princess, she wasn't very passionate about anything else. (sorry, Em's...when you play dress up every day as Cinderella...it's not very exciting to do it on Halloween, too!)

We had originally planned on Ben being a Bee. However he grew WAY TOO fast and we had to make a quick dash to the store. So we opted for a little MONKEY! Although sometimes I think we should just embrace his extremely white skin (donated by Larry) and dress him up as Casper.

To make my life easier we met our friends at CiCi's Pizza for dinner. It's not the classiest place, but it works. The kids ate some extremely healthy pizza and brownies while the parents took a break before the whirlwind of Trick-Or-Treating!

Of course, before we started we had to force the kids to take a group photo of all our hard work (Alex-Thomas the Train, Taylor- Spiderman, Isabelle- bunny, Kajsa- Kitty and Asher- Kangaroo).

Even though the kids out number the parents with 8 of them and only 6 of us, we were able to keep everyone out of the street, only limited trips down a few stairs and made sure everyone said "THANK YOU".

Oh and props to Sydney and Emma for doing another whole street more then their friends. I guess it takes more to tire them out!!