We survived the month of October and Halloween is in the books. I have to be honest, I'm never too sad to see it go. We had some fun times, though.
We carved our pumpkins for FHE:
Mine and Lizzy's
Joe's, Natalie's & Nate's (done entirely by me)
Elizabeth carved hers all by herself this year!
We went to the trunk-or-treat at the church. We had some costume problems and were really running late but here we all are in our Harry Potter-themed glory:
Joe and I are supposed to be Lily and James Potter.
We were going for this look:
Not so great, but the best we could do with about 10 minutes and the things from our closets.
Joe was all costumed out after his firm's big Halloween to-do. They go all out. He might kill me for including this next one but hey--it serves him right for not reading our blog much. :)
He's the 4th oompa loompa from the right. He even had to write a song and choreograph this whole number for a skit they did. It was pretty awesome but I don't think he'd appreciate me posting that link. :)
Anyway, back to the trunk-or-treat...
I thought this was funny one, too:
The girls were really getting into character, I guess. :) They insisted on being death eaters since they wanted to be scary. I think they scared a bunch of people with their masks.
I made some kid at the trunk-or-treat pose with Nate for this picture:
We got to go on a little horse-drawn train:
Lizzy reading anything she can get her hands on, even the brochure:
We saw a ton of Monarch butterflies, got to look for eggs in the chicken coop and feed some animals.
The kids bonded with this sheep:
We were going for this look:
Not so great, but the best we could do with about 10 minutes and the things from our closets.
Joe was all costumed out after his firm's big Halloween to-do. They go all out. He might kill me for including this next one but hey--it serves him right for not reading our blog much. :)
He's the 4th oompa loompa from the right. He even had to write a song and choreograph this whole number for a skit they did. It was pretty awesome but I don't think he'd appreciate me posting that link. :)
Anyway, back to the trunk-or-treat...
I thought this was funny one, too:
The girls were really getting into character, I guess. :) They insisted on being death eaters since they wanted to be scary. I think they scared a bunch of people with their masks.
I made some kid at the trunk-or-treat pose with Nate for this picture:
I just think that's a pretty darn cute Harry Potter.
This, for sure, is the cutest Dobby (not Yoda!) there ever was:
Come on! :)
A couple more snapshots just for fun while the older kids ran around playing games:
On Halloween day, the kids had their early-release day at school so we had some time to fill before trick-or-treating. We hadn't done the pumpkin patch thing so I decided we'd do that. It ended up being perfect! No one was there and I loved the place we went to. It was more like a historic functioning farm with a small patch.
The kids bonded with this sheep:
It was a lot of fun.
We were pretty tired, though, so we didn't go out trick-or-treating for too long.
This guy had two costumes this year since we had to make sure to put him in the traditional bunny costume:
And here's yet another bunny costume comparison...
Nate
Natalie
Elizabeth
They've got their own looks but they're siblings for sure.
I just love all those bunnies!
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