Halloween

I don't know if Halloween really wore me out that much, or I'm just being lazy, but everytime I thought about writing a Halloween blog, I found something else to do! In fact, I've shampood our rug and couch and ottoman, cleaned the outside windows and door, and pulled up weeds in our flower bed all after I thought about writing a blog. I guess all that physical labor sounder easier at the moment than downloading and uploading pictures, learning how to make a slideshow and getting all my thoughts down. Now, after a busy day of family pictures, I'm ready to sit down and share.

We had a fun Halloween. Monday night, we painted the rest of our pumpkins. I ended up harvesting about 6 or 7 from our own garden, getting 4 from grandma and grandpa, and buying 2 from pumpkinland. After carving 3 earlier in the season, I thought painting would be MUCH easier. And it was, the girls were so excited to get started! Ella lasted longer than Emily and cried when we were done. Steve was excited to paint the Impossible Man on his pumpkin. The girls basically did solid colors on there. We added a Y to a blue pumpkin and a N to a red pumpkin and some poke in ears, eyes and nose in another pumpkin. We certainly had an array of pumpkins on our small porch!

On Halloween, the girls got to dress up for their library classes. It was the last class and we sure enjoyed going. Ella's mommy and me class is a hoot! The teacher is so fun and very creative. This week was about India and she tied fishing wire from a recorder to a stuffed snake that was inside a treasure chest. As she "played" the recorder (actually a CD) she stood higher and higher and danced around so it looked like the snake was being charmed. She went around and let the snake kiss everyone's toes! Emily's class is not as exciting because the librarian basically just reads book after book. After library, we took an early nap so we could go trick-or-treating downtown to the Main Street Stores. The girls had a blast, but Ella really slowed down by the end. Other than that, they did great walking! We tried to order pizza for dinner, but every pizza place was busy. So we finally did leftovers - Again. We started trick-or-treating after we'd gotten a few at our door. I loved going out early in the daylight. Emily had a BLAST! She literally RAN from door to door! Ella climbed in and out of the stroller everytime. We actually made it down our entire street and a couple of cul-de-sacs. That's the furthest we've ever gotten. We enjoyed seeing so many of our neighbors. We were surprised by how many families walking around we DIDN'T know. We have quite a variety in our neighorhood. We didn't get many trick-or-treaters after we got back and ended up with TONS of candy left over! I always overbuy. Too bad! (I did use coupons for all the bags I bought this year!) We played Sorry together as a family and I lost MISERABLY. I think I only got out of start once and only for one turn. Turns out it's not as fun to play games when you don't win all the time!