Happy Halloween!

After a busy morning at church and a busy afternoon grocery shopping, we figured we'd better get on the ball and actually carve our pumpkin!! Livie and Daddy carved one at the Favorite Man event at school, but we had yet to do one with our family, so we got to work.


Daddy worked on getting that thing cleaned out after the kids pulled out as much of the guts as they could.

The kids each took turns drawing part of this guy's face. Livie drew the eyes, Noah drew the nose, and Madie drew the mouth. Pete got the job of carving it, while I got the kids in their costumes.

Can you tell they were ready to go?!

Off they went, skipping and running from house to house as I yelled at them to SLOW DOWN!

Our favorite house was the one behind us where Rod and Kendra live. They were dressed up like characters from the Wizard of Oz.

Rod was the scarecrow, Kendra was the bad witch, their daughter was the good witch, and their son was a flying monkey! They even had hot cider for everyone who wanted a cup. :-)

Livie knows how to work her daddy and convinced him early on to let her ride on his shoulders. :-)

They each took turns ringing the door bell, but when it was Livie's turn, the bell was a bit high, so she used her pirate sword to ring it. We were cracking up!

We were out for about an hour when we headed back home. We all were freezing and the trick-or-treat bags were full, so we thought it was a good time to call it a night. We were greeted by our fantastic pumpkins!!

And, we walked away with an overflowing bowl of goodies! I would say it was a successful night. Happy Halloween everyone!