Halloween Happenings - January recap!

Happy Halloween, in January!!!

Yes, I've been busy. Sorry, but better late than never, right??

I have a LOT of pictures here.... halloween is my favorite, so I take a lot of pictures, and want to share them all!! So get comfortable...

Starting out in October, the kids helped decorate for halloween... they were really into it this year, but maybe got just a little side tracked at times :)

Here is proof that even though Claire is a girly girl, she has a tomboy streak :)

She thinks worms are really cute.

We read a lot of books and watched a movie this summer on making faerie houses in nature, and the kids were pretty proud of this one.

Claire said the worm could live there too. :)

Here is a picture of my front garden, .... some of it was dying since this was October,

but you get the gist.

I also included some pictures of the porch and some of the pots.

Claire went to the pumpkin patch with her preschool class to pick out pumpkins.

Our Halloween Family fun day in pictures:

We ate lunch in "Hell, Michigan" at the only restaurant in town, which happens to be really good!

Then went to Hell's little halloween gift shop for some of Hell's famous "Screams Ice Cream".

The kids each made this little walking spider craft.

Next we went pumpkin picking

Afterwards, we had doughnuts and the kids played in a hay maze!

I have a couple of pictures from another day, same place :)

Grandma Grimmett came to play with us for a week!

She helped the kids carve pumpkins :)

Claire insisted we carve her tiny pumpkin "Bingo".

Bingo is a gourd, so you can imagine it wasn't easy to light, let alone carve.

But somehow Jason managed... Go Daddy!

COSTUMES!

Our family theme this year was "toy story".

I don't know how much longer we can swing a theme, so we may as well live it up!

Jason and I were Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.

You can see the resemblance, I'm sure!

Everything was attached with velcro, so we could switch the pieces around, putting the eyes where the mouth goes, and replacing an eye with an ear... etc.

Josh wanted to be a cowboy, so I dressed him as Woody.

This actually started our theme.

But if you ask him, he is NOT Woody... he is just a regular cowboy ;p

Claire was "Princess" Little Bo Peep.

I have a few pictures because I'm pretty proud of how this actually turned out. It was a compilation of old dresses with a new overskirt and some new accessories to jazz it up.

(ruffly blue bloomers!)

She has a cane, but it's not in these pictures.

And Wyatt was Bo Peep's sheep.

We had a trunk-or-treat at the church, so the kids got a TON of candy!

My friend Abrea and I threw a little Halloween party at her house.

I decorated the walkway with ghost lights made from milk jugs:

And I dressed up as the tooth fairy for this party.

(my Mrs. Potato Head costume wasn't ready yet!)

I had a dental floss necklace, and toothpaste cap earrings, plus a little bag full of money, and a toothbrush magic wand, of course.

And just for fun I put Wyatt in Josh's halloween costume from when he was a year old.

(I was a beehive that year)

Here is Wyatt... having a pumpkin party on the porch!

Look how strong our kid is!

Ok, it's plastic.

A pumpkin that size would weigh more than Wyatt does!

Did he fool anyone?