Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Sadly, this Halloween was marked by some seriously nasty head colds among the family ranks, so we took it pretty easy for most of the day. But we did manage to get in the most traditional celebrations, starting with pumpkin carving.

The girls were having a hard time making a final decision on what kind of face they wanted for the family pumpkin (spooky face... no, wait-- a sad face... no, wait-- a happy face! NO! Wait-- a ghost!... no, wait-- just a spooky face....) Round and round we went, so I decided it would be much better to just leave the artistic work up to them, and I would carve it out.


I admit I sorta love this picture. Notice the stinkeye being given by Miss Precision in the background at being forced to let Reeve scribble all over her masterpiece for mom-mandated sharing. Maybe next year we will have to actually get them their own pumpkins to carve....


Since they are still pretty little, I didn't get them their own carving pumpkins, but I did get them each two of their very own pumpkins to decorate with stickers while I carved the big pumpkin, so luckily that smoothed things over.


Hopefully Briggs won't be offended in the years to come that Libby said she was going for a portrait of Baby Brother. =) We love you, handsome!


Next up on the Halloween docket: dressing up! The girls insisted they wanted to be ghosts this year, and I was sorta proud of them of wanting to be classic, spooky Halloween characters. It seemed fairly out of character for them to go against their typically bright and girly grain, but they consistently claimed they wanted to be ghosts and the costumes certainly seemed like they'd be easy enough to make, so we went for it.


Then it was on to trick-or-treating. Of course they thoroughly enjoyed this part, and were very excited despite their horrible colds, especially since the ward Trunk or Treat that had been scheduled for a couple of days prior had been cancelled because of a ridiculous early snowstorm. Boo!



Briggs had fallen asleep about 10 minutes before we planned to go trick-or-treating, so he stayed home with dad for a little nap, and then I had to feed him when he woke up, and once we were all done it was getting pretty late and the girls were already back home. But since I'd put a whopping, oh, 10 minutes into making him a ghost costume, too, and since it was his first Halloween and all, we dressed him up, too, for a quick photo op. I didn't get one of all my ghosties together because I didn't want to put Briggs with the girls and all their sickly germs. Sadly, poor little buddy caught it a few days later anyway. =(


Luckily all the head colds are beginning to clear (or at least move on to the chests, so there is a symphony of hacking coughs around here), and we are now moving on to sugar comas. A happy Halloween, indeed.