halloween 2009 . . . our own little pumpkin patch

we've been counting down to the big day for quite some time . . . like since july! the girls were so excited to see that the halloween witch had left them some goodies in the haunted house and filled their trick-or-treat bags with some goodies too! :) they all had fun playing with sticky hands . . . daddy included! :)

the hit of their treat bag was the silly string . . . thanks for the idea miss s! :) bailey and i did a sneak attack on the girls . . . then they got their cans and had fun spraying everything! what a fun start to the day! :)

we carved our pumpkins outside in the beautiful weather! we carved all 6 pumpkins . . . or i should say daddy carved most of them! i gutted them . . . with a little help from ken, less from mck, and absolutely no help from kam who just said "disgusting" after touching the inside once! kam decided on a cinderella pumpkin . . . a tough task on the "baby" pumpkin she picked out! ken's was super cool . . . sticky eyeballs everywhere! and mck wanted belle . . . a "challenging" design that daddy was able to pull off! my pumpkin was a vampire and daddy and b.c. had traditional jack-o-lanterns (read "we were too worn out to be creative"!) next year, it'll just be pumpkins for the kiddos . . . a 4 hour long pumpkin carving marathon is a little crazy! :)

the girls and b.c. got all dressed up in their co-ordinating pumpkin outfits! i am hoping to convince them to match next year, but not counting on it! ken was pumpkin spice, mck was a pumpkin princess, kam was a baby pumpkin fairy, and b.c. was the most adorable pumpkin ever! what fun! our own little pumpkin patch! :)

we went trick-or-treating with the same bunch we've been with for several years now . . . old friends from ken's daycare! :) it was so fun to see the big girls all back together. . . and the little kids managed ot fit right in! (thanks ms. t for hosting us . . . AGAIN!) the kids all snacked on fun halloween goodies and then headed out!

the kids were all so funny . . . ken stopped after EVERY house to show me what she had gotten! seriously EVERY house! mck wanted to lead the group . . . a group of 6 year olds! she wanted to be the first at every door! and little kam quickly realized that her cuteness paid off and said an extra loud "trick or treat" by the end of our venture! b.c. was great all night - chilling in his carrier and eventually falling asleep!
we headed home and the girls sorted their candy . . . i told them they could each pick one piece to eat . . . they never argued! (weird!) mck picked m&m's, kam picked nerds, and my weird oldest child picked a brain piece!