Halloween Week

WHOO-EE! This is a lot of photos for one blog post!

Festivities began on Thursday night with pumpkin carving. Chancho did the most work for sure. Here he is carving the face on String Cheese's pumpkin. I think String Cheese liked the guts of her pumpkin a little too much! Deedle liked the guts a little bit too little.
Loumy tried to draw a picture of how he wanted his face but then just got out a book and showed us instead.Friday morning Loumy dressed up in his Mace Windu costume for his preschool party. After dropping off Loumy, we raced up to the school (late of course) for Deedle and SC's Halloween parade. Patti held my little skeleton while I took photos of the girls. I also snapped a shot of friend Jenna...... and this cool "old man". I think any parent who would cut their son's hair like this for Halloween must be super cool (I know her and she is).The kids were thrilled to basically have two Halloweens since they partied all day Friday and still had the best-still-to-come on Saturday (the trick-or-treating, of course). The weather was very cold this week, even with some snow. This morning, however, we woke up to sun and a little higher temperatures.

The highlight of Halloween week for me personally was going for a bike ride down on our trail with the entire family! Chancho spent quite a bit of time fixing all of our flat tires and hooking up the trailer for Finn and that type of thing. And if you are wondering whether or not Loumy is riding a girls' bike, he is NOT. It just happens that it used to be his sisters bike and it is purple (just like Mace Windu's light sabre). But it no longer has any girl stickers, rather is now be-decked in Star Wars stickers and is a full-blown Star Wars bike for a BOY. And don't any of you dare tell Loumy otherwise! It was so gorgeous on the trail with the sunshine and the fall leaves and the river...but after about one second I dropped all of the batteries out of my camera and could only find 3 of the 4 so these are the only shots I got.

When we got home, it was FINALLY time to start putting on costumes and makeup. String Cheese would not allow me to do her face white again, but she still looked awesome. The kids were amazingly patient while I took their photos, even though they were super anxious to get their trick-or-treat on.
Deedle, by the way, is an Ice Princess or a Snow Queen. But not an Ice Queen. All month people have been asking her what she is going to be for Halloween and when she told them, "Ice Queen", much to her dismay they would respond, "An Icecream? How cute!" The "icecream" accusation inevitably led to much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. So, I convinced her to call herself "Ice Princess" or "Snow Queen" instead (depending on her mood) and that helped us avoid the "icecream" landmine. I thought the geisha was quite original for SC this year, but at the parade at school I saw 4 of them in second grade alone. Funny how that works. SC didn't care one bit, so I didn't either.

At last the kids were off. Finn and I stayed home to pass out candy while Chancho took the kids around the block. I snapped this shot of one of our neighbors. She always dresses up cool to take her grandkids around for treats.

We finished off the night by going over to Chancho's parents to visit and do a little more trick-or-treating with Uncle Brian (aka Cookie Monster) and Myely-the-amazing-Lobster-dog.
I hope ya'll had as happy of a Halloween as we did!