Trick-or-Treat!

Happy Halloween! We learned the hard way our first year down in Texas that if you carve pumpkins too early you will have to throw them away before Halloween. They just rot in the heat within a couple of days.  So now our tradition down here is to carve them the day before Halloween! That's what we did Saturday.

Chloe watched:

And now for the finished products! Here are mine and Chloe's (Chase decorated hers with stickers; She's on the bottom):

And here are Daddy's and Chase's:

Bet you can't tell whose is whose!  Ha ha!  Chase told me what he wanted and I drew and carved it for him.

When I was outside taking pictures of the pumpkins Chase decided he wanted to take pictures of them, too.  Mom and Dad, this is for you!

Chase wanted to be a pumpkin for Halloween this year. I have decided as a mom I should make the kids' Halloween costumes every year. I don't know why I feel like it's my duty as a mom to be domestic only at certain times of the year, but I do. Last year I made his ghost costume, which I was so proud of. This year I made his costume again. Now, unlike last year when I found easy instructions for his costume online, this year I had to make it up on my own. I must say I am pretty pleased with myself. My son won best costume in his class at daycare! GO, MOM!  All I used was a sweatshirt, some felt, scissors, elastic and sewing glue:

Chloe was the most beautiful spider you ever did see!

Here's the rest of her:

And here are the kids with Daddy:

We have had a lot of Halloween fun this weekend. Last night we were on our way to a Halloween party when we noticed a bunch of kids in costume running around our neighborhood. We had just assumed trick-or-treating was on Halloween but I guess we were wrong! We ended up doing a little impromptu trick-or-treating before the party last night, and then tonight we met up with Chase's friend Nathan (and my friend, his mom!) in a neighboring town to trick-or-treat again. They were ADORABLE running from house to house shouting, "Happy Halloween!"

I hope everyone had a fun, safe Halloween!  We sure did!  More photos are in our Photo Album if you're interested!