Happy Halloween!

It was a busy Halloween around here.  We attended our annual pumpkin carving party where the kids (with Mom & Dad's help) carved their designs they had each punched into their pumpkins.  JP went with a Devilish looking figure, Ryan did a deer, Caitlin carved Hello Kitty & Madison choose a pretty complicated cat.  The impressive thing was she sat for over an hour punching the carving marks into it! 

On Halloween, I was able to attend all 4 of the kids parties at school.  It was up to each teacher to decide if kids could dress up or not.  It worked out OK, because each of the boys teachers allowed it, so it wasn't just one person left out.  All the kid's classes did have parties and everyone came home happy.  I didn't take any pics at JP's party.  You know the kid's are getting older when they mostly eat treats and play head's up 7 up at parties!

Ryan's class:

Madison's class:

Caitlin's class:

Halloween night everyone got dressed up and hit the streets while I stayed home to passed out our 600 pieces of candy.  We had a cowgirl, princess, ghost & ape.  It was pretty cold and windy, so I was impressed the trio stayed out for almost an hour.  This was the first year JP went out with his friend.  He is getting so big!  When he came home he immediately started counting his candy.  He said he hadn't eaten any so he could have an accurate count.  He collected 297 pieces!  He made a chart of his collection- 126 dum-dums alone!