Happy Halloween 2013

Halloween was wet and cold this year, but that didn't stop us from having a lots of fun. A few weeks before Halloween we did our annual pumpkin carving party with the neighborhood. It was pumpkin madness in our garage, and I got no pictures. There were people in our garage, in our house, in the backyard - no time for picture taking! It was fun though - the memories we're making in this neighborhood are too many to count. We also made a ghost to make our front yard extra spooky. Ellie and Emmit thought this was pretty fun =) Here are some pictures of the kids with our pumpkins and our ghost.

Ellie had black and orange day at school on Halloween day. Here's the outfit we put together =)

Trick or treating was on Halloween night. It was cold and rainy, but that didn't stop the kids from coming in packs. Our neighborhood is a destination for area trick or treating. SO MANY kids! Our gang gathered right at 4:00 and headed out. We had anywhere from 5-25 people with us at any given time as the little kids were lagging behind the big kids and the parents were having to divide and conquer! Ellie and Emmit were running most of the time. Emmit called it quits after about halfway around the neighborhood. He had a full bucket and wanted to go home with Dad to hand out candy (and eat what we had). Ellie, Sara, and I made the full loop, along with Ellie's friend Ellie ("the other Ellie" in our neighborhood) and her Mom, Katie. It was a lot of fun =)

Ellie was a cowgirl this year - she decided this a long time ago (summer) and stuck with her decision.

Emmit on the other hand, could not make up his mind. He was going to be Captain America at one point, and then he changed his mind and decided to be Hawk Man. Well I searched high and low for a Hawk Man costume (Superman, Batman, Spiderman, no...he wanted Hawk Man!) We couldn't find a costume and making costumes just isn't my gig...so what did we do...quickly divert attention to yet another Marvel character - The Flash! We found this costume, and Emmit was easily convinced that this would be a really cool costume! He liked the idea of being able to run SUPER fast with his Flash costume.

And some more shots of the group and us in action =)