Happy Halloween!

What a fun Halloween we had!

I haven't blogged in a while, so here's a run-down of the fun.

We went to our favorite farmer's market for one of our October FHEs and picked out pumpkins and gourds.

 Emmitt HAD to pull the cart. He picked a huge pumpkin. It was 30 pounds!

 Then we enjoyed tasty mummy dogs at grandma's house.

 The next night we colored our pumpkins. We gave the kids the choice to carve or color, and they chose to color. I was glad.

 Sam helped Emmitt with his, but Mila did hers all by herself. It's supposed to be a pumpkin version of Sam.

 Then we had some yummy mummy cupcakes. I used the Krusteaze double chocolate mix, and they were delicious. I actually liked them better without frosting. They were that good.

 After the kids went to bed, I walked past the kitchen table and caught sight of Mila's pumpkin. It made me burst out laughing. Like I said, it's supposed to look like Sam and after I took the picture of the kids with their pumpkins, Mila suddenly became concerned saying she needed to work on the chin. I didn't think much of it until I saw the pumpkin later. Notice: Sam has dark hair, pumpkin has dark hair, Sam was wearing his glasses that evening, pumpkin is wearing glasses, Sam hadn't shaved that day, Mila realizes this so Mila adds scruff to pumpkin's chin. It struck me as so funny to have a whiskery pumpkin! 

We've spent many afternoons raking up leaf piles just to jump in them.

 Sam threw the kids (gently) into the piles.

 We played a fun game where Sam would launch a pile of leaves with the rake, and they would rain down on the kids. They loved it! I'm surprised we didn't have a trip to the ER or something with a chunk of leaf in an eye.

Trick or Treating was on Saturday. It never seems to be on actual Halloween here.

Mila was set on being a mermaid, and Emmitt wanted to be a football player.

 Being a mermaid with pink and purple hair was a dream come true for her!

 For the church party, which I was so glad was actually on Halloween, Emmitt wanted to be a pirate. I got both of his costumes on clearance last year.

He was so cute!

The kids had so much fun trick or treating on Saturday. Mila was so funny because sometimes after someone had already put candy in her bucket, she would keep standing right in front of them long enough that it was awkward and some of them would put more candy into her bucket!   Emmitt was so cute saying "trick or treat" that he had all the old ladies drooling over him. The kids didn't want to stop even though it was quite cold and they weren't getting much candy. They got twice as much walking the halls at church last night. We couldn't trunk or treat since it was cold and raining. Very fun Halloween season!

We already went Halloween clearance shopping today and got Mila's costume for next year.

We love Halloween!