Halloween Happened!!

Two years without makes you appreciate something you generally loathe.

I'm no converted Halloween believer, but this year I was at least a smiling tolerator.  And that's saying a lot.

We carved pumpkins.

 Itty bitty pumpkins because the grocery store was out (which, by the way, who runs out of pumpkins a week before Halloween???), and I wasn't going to another store to try to track down some stupid gut-filled gourds.  So we used what we had. 

 The kids were all gung-ho to carve, until I opened the tops.  Then they all went scarce. Because they seem to have forgotten what the inside of pumpkin looks like??? And Allen was at a fireside, so I got to be the de-gutter.  And scraping out scraps in itty bitty pumpkins is knuckle-bruising.  Big time.

Also, daddy came home just in time for the fun part.  Naturally.

I'm the room mom for Tessa's preschool class.  Worship me.  I threw one rip-roaring Halloween party.  Also, Eden hated every part of that danged skunk costume.  Stinker.

We met up with our favorites for some downtown Summit trick-or-treating.  Because it was strangely, yet deservedly, warm.

Also, that is the only picture I got of the children.  Ryder was some freak skateboarding skeleton thing and the girls were characters from Littlest Pet Shop.

Obviously, I am way past having any say in the costuming department.

Then we came home, I stuffed scrambled eggs down their faces, then sent them out the door with their father to trick-or-treat the neighborhood (while Eden slept and I handed out candy). 

They came home with way too much.  Way, way, waaaayyyyy, too much.

90% met the garbage can 3 days later.

So, yeah, definitely not converted.