Spooky Halloween

Our Halloween celebration was more of a weekend than a one night thing. And it was awesome. In no particular order (because I don't really want to take the time to go back and rearrange everything--let's be honest, there are other things I need to be doing besides blogging about my awesome weekend right now) here are some of the spooooky events.

We carved pumpkins on Sunday night. The boys danced around like crazy banshees after we lit the pumpkins and turned off the lights. To me, that means it was a successful night ;) Pictured left to right: Grandma and Eli's, Marcus and Mom's, Owen and Mom's, Dad and Owen's.

Marcus told me how to carve the face and then when we were finished he went to work on "making it his own" which means he took a knife and "expanded" on all the work we'd just done. Thus two triangle eyes and a nose become the awesome cyclops pumpkin seen in the first picture.

Owen and Eli tried (unsuccessfully, thank goodness) to get their fingers cut off by Grandma's knife. My mom deserves a prize for still carving a totally awesome pumpkin despite all her "helpers." Side note, it was so great to have my mom come up for the Halloween weekend. We LOVE it when Grandma comes.

My boys went trick or treating not one, not two, but THREE times! Friday night was a trunk or treat and carnival with Grandma and Grandpa Richey and Kay. Saturday night was our church's trunk or treat, and then Halloween night around the neighborhood. My favorite is that they are all still too young to want to create their own piles of candy. They all just dumped it in a huge community pile on the table and went to work eating as much as possible. A friend asked me if we had a candy gremlin that lived at our house and planned to come and eat the extra candy we didn't want our kids to consume. I said, "Yep, his name is Tim."

We enjoyed Year 3 of our annual Murder Mystery dinner at the D'Addabbo's house. This year we all got to dress up as Zombies and it was so fun. I love my friends.


Finally, and this really should have been the first picture, we went batty at our house this year. Martha Stewart's cool ideas and my son's love for bats inspired me to create our own little Halloween creatures this year. The boys spent much of the month walking by this table and blowing with all their might at the little bats to make them "fly." What a good Halloween month it has been. And now on to November!