Halloween

Another fun Halloween this year! The kids had lots of opportunities to wear their costumes from the Pumpkin Festival, to our friends, the Bairds party, to Trunk-or-Treat, to class parties, and the actual night.
Jake veered from his and Jonah's standard Star-Wars theme and opted for a skeleton. I have a $20 limit on costumes and Jonah wanted this Clone Trooper costume so bad he chipped in his own money. Elle and Mae were butterfly fairy princesses (?). The kids PE teacher at school taught all the kids a version of the Thriller dance which they performed after their costume parade. It was so cute, like a little kid flash-mob.
Pumpkin carving took on a central theme this year - vomit. The kids saw their cousin, Emmas, pumpkin and wanted to have "pumpkin throwup" too. Caroline's pumpkin made the most sense since she spits up ALL the time. I even put long eyelashes on hers.
We also cheated with trick-or-treating rolling in Jen and Mark's golf cart, but felt a little like those buses in India with 9 kids and 3 adults hanging off a four-seater cart. We had both sets of parents, Traci and Samantha, and the Tingeys over for our annual potato bar dinner. It's such a nice way to have the grandparents see the kids in their costumes. We are so lucky to have them all here with us!