Halloween

We carve pumpkins every year, but this year I wasn't feeling it. So when the kids asked I said we weren't gonna do it. It didn't seem like anyone really cared, but during dinner on Tuesday the idea was brought up again and the kids were like "mom said no". Obviously that made me feel terrible! To make it up to them I decided to have a Halloween party complete with pumpkin carving, cookie decorating, home made pizza, chocolate covered strawberries and other goodies. I sent the kids a text early to let them know to be home by 5. They were super excited!! Apparently waiting to buy pumpkins until Halloween day is not a good idea! Jeremy and I called and drove to every Walmart, Tom Thumb, Kroger and Aldi in our area with no luck. I refused to give up and decided to spend the money and get them from a local pumpkin patch. I'm so glad that I followed through. We had an awesome night of family fun. We made strawberries with ghost faces, a mummy pizza, a pumpkin face pizza, decorated our cookies and carved our pumpkins while listening to scary music :) Jess is addicted to cookies of any kind. In the picture she is eating the frosting right out of the jar while decorating her cookie and that did not stop her from eating her cookie too. Jeremy was "backwards" and it was so creepy looking. When kids arrived at the door he would just stand there while Bailey, Jess or Nadirah handed out the treat. Some of the kids just stared, other laughed, and others were really confused. I thought it was pretty hilarious and to quote Riley "watch out mom is having one of her can't stop laughing fits". Bailey and Jess took their "first BFF picture ". And to finish out the night of family fun our kids went trick or treating and of course brought home way too much candy for my liking ;)