Halloween Week!

We had a week long of Halloween excitement here! There was a lot of excitement building up to Halloween this year, so it was fun that it FINALLY got here!

The kids each had fun Halloween shirts to wear throughout the week. Our little camera monster! Emmit is obsessed with the camera lately, so it's impossible to take pictures w/o him throwing a fit and wanting the camera!



Ellie in her Halloween shirt



And the two of them together =)



A not-so-scary Frankenstein



Little monster is right! And with a runny nose...the house seemed to come down with colds last week =P



And a bubble monster too! One night last week, Colin turned the jets on in our tub for Ellie, resulting in this. It has become the new favorite thing at bathtime, for both kids now!



On Thursday they had Halloween parties at school and each got to wear their costumes. Ellie was SOOOO excited! Here we are in costume ready for school!



On Friday morning, Ellie got a special treat getting to come to work with Mama. We had trick-or-treating around our office from 10-1, so we just hung out at home in the morning and then headed to work for 10:00. I had every intention of taking pictures, but then found it time to go without having taken any! Ellie was just having too much fun talking to all of Mama's friends and filling her pumpkin full of candy!

Friday afternoon we all headed to Madison for a fun weekend with Shannon, Andy, and Henry.

All the cousins getting ready for dinner on Friday night!



Henry the big boy, eating food now!



Ellie & Henry playing



Auntie Steph came to visit too



On Saturday morning, Colin and Andy left on their road trip to Iowa, so Shannon, the kids, and I started our fun-filled Halloween day. First the kids dressed up and went trick-or-treating over to Steph and Mike's apartment.

Our attempt at a group shot - this about sums it up!



Little Nemo



Later that afternoon we got dressed up again, ate snacks, and painted pumpkins. Our friends Mary Ellen and Alexis came over to visit, so Ellie and Alexis had lots of fun painting together.

Pumpkin painting fun



Henry hanging out and watching



Painting hands and feet (they all went right in the bathtub after pumpkins!)



Emmit got in on the action too!



Ellie and Alexis



And the wine witches too! =)



Sunday morning we made our way back home, and it was finally time for trick-or-treat, FOR REAL! We already had more than enough candy than we needed, but dressed up one more time to walk around the neighborhood. Ellie had a bit of a tantrum getting her costume on, not wanting to put ANYTHING warm under her princess dress. We finally compromised on a long-sleeve t-shirt (which wasn't warm enough), so trick-or-treating didn't last too long for us. The time we were out though, Ellie and Emmit both had a lot of fun!

Princess Ellie (Ariel) and Emmit the crab





Our whole clan, Sara and Matt joined us too...Emmit insisted on walking so we weren't moving at the fastest pace =)



Sara and I were Burt and Ernie for Halloween, probably when we were 4 and 2 or something like that...so look at the shirts she found =)



Little crab learning the tricks of trick-or-treat! It only took him one house to catch on!



After trick or treating, we headed back home, and the kids had a lot of fun handing out candy then too. Every time the doorbell rang, Ellie would go running to get the bowl to give candy to her "customers". She would tell the kids, "You can take 2" or "You can take 3"...she pretty much ran the show! =)