Happy Halloween 2011

Happy Halloween!! Here is a run down of what we did for Halloween this year. First a few days before Halloween we painted and carved our pumpkins. Here are the pics for proof!

Macie painting her pumpkin. I don't know what the face is for.

Addie painting her pumpkin.The end result. Addie's is the black one and Macie's is the colorful one with a stem.

After painting pumpkins it was time to carve the big pumpkin. Geoff doesn't really enjoy the whole seed/gut part of the pumpkin, so I took over making sure that the girls partook...I feel like they need to know how much fun it can be to get messy and play inside of the pumpkin.Here are the girls checking out the insides and what it looks like. I love Macie's face.Here she is taking out the guts! SO fun!! And for those of you who want to see me prego...here is the pic. I am 30 weeks along in this one. Macie with the guts...seriously though, I don't know what is with this face.I love this picture!! I got up to take a picture of Geoff carving the pumpkin and immediately the girls swarmed in and took over, leaving him no room to work and the girls basically on top of him. SO FUNNY!!! So, when I told him i was taking a picture, this is the look that I got!! Awesome, no...Here they are hard at work.The finished face.Checking out the candle inside of the pumpkin. Here he is all lit up.We also have these fun potato head pumpkin pieces that the girls love, so they put those around the other edges of the pumpkin that we weren't carving.

Halloween this year was alot of fun. The girls were both old enough to understand it and want to participate. They chose their costumes and told me what they wanted to be. Macie at first found this cute costume in a magazine that was supposed to be a cute/scary fairy. It had the wings, a witch hat, and a cute little skirt to it. I thought that I could replicate it for fairly cheap and I did...and then she got vampire teeth from school and told everyone that she was now a vampire...with wings...and she never wore the teeth with her costume.....everyone was very confused to say the least, but she was happy. Addie was a bumble bee, with the same costume, for the 3rd year in a row. That costume has now been used for the past 5 years and still looks good. Awesome is all I can say. It was a good Halloween with a few festivities on Saturday that we went to and then trick or treating on Monday. They had fun and now have a TON of candy! It is quite disgusting. It was weird not being with our friends in Cleveland this year. It is the first year that we have gone by ourselves. Not quite the same or as fun. The girls missed their friends as well. Here they are in their costumes. Addie the bumble bee and Macie the "vampire". (She is trying to be scary! AHHH!)Here they are trick or treating.