pumpkins and halloween

Happy Halloween to everyone! We don't do a whole lot for Halloween here. We decorated with a couple things that I had, made some paper bats and ghosts for decorations and carved some pumpkins.  In photos...

the before photo of the pumpkins.  you can see Ewan's first attempt at a pumpkin face on the front pumpkin

this year, everyone helped scoop the pulp out of the pumpkins.  no one freaked out at the goopy-ness.  Liam even helped by putting the pulp back into the pumpkin

the next show was watching Daddy carve the pumpkins with a jigsaw

here's everyones' costumes.  I call this year's theme "the year I didn't try".  We tried to have everyone think of costumes using some of the thins from home.  We did okay with this.  We still ended up buying shirts for Marcus and Cale, pants for Cale and Ewan and weapons.  Maybe it would have been cheaper just to buy costumes, but at least this way, they can wear the clothes again.  If you're not sure, let me help you with the costumes:  Kella was clearly a pumpkin (thanks to the outfit Aunt Bitsy gave us).  Liam was a masked soccer player (in a desparate attempt to get him to wear something, I grabbed a bunch of old sports jersies, and he liked the mask).  Ewan was some kind of ninja, the only accessories he needed were some swords and gloves (in his mind, he had a great costume-Ewan has a great imagination).  Cale was a black ninja and Marcus was a white one (he had weapons too, but about 1 minute before we were going to walk out the door, he said he didn't want to trick or treat and took off the swords.  I thought he was going to cry about not wanting to go, but I kind of ignored it, and he ended up having fun.).

our little pumpkin

a close-up of some of the brothers

We went to a trunk or treat at the church at the front of our subdivision.  The elk farm brought an elk.  I'm not too sure why, but I thought that was neat.  The boys kept calling it a moose.  Clearly we are "townies".

The protesters were even there. :-)

Kella did okay.  She fell asleep as we got back to our house

We did about an hour of trick or treating as we worked our way back to our house.  Once we got there, I put Marcus in charge of handing out candy. We gave it all away.

And, here are the finished pumpkins.  I think Marcus's is on the left, then Cale's, Ewan's and Liam's.