Halloween 2016

(The Man in the Yellow Hat holding a turtle, wonder woman, Mr. Bones (PJ's), "Blue Storm" (Keith insisted I needed a name :) ), and Captain America.)

Unfortunately Grant and Brett were sick this past weekend, and into the week.  We did manage to carve pumpkins on Sunday night before these boys crashed into bed with a good dose of Ibuprofen.

Brett thought the "guts" were cool.  Grant wouldn't even look at them!

I always think they look cool too!

We saved all of the seeds and I roasted them in the oven that night.

Camille's Ghosts

Grant's Scary Eye

Brett's Happy Pumpkin

Keith's Bat Cat

My peeled pumpkin.  I wanted to try out a super squash peeler I'd been borrowing from Keith's mom.  It worked great on my butternut squash that I'd used for soup that night.  It was trickier to use on the pumpkin because of the bumpy skin.  

By the next morning this skinless pumpkin had collapsed!  I guess that thin layer of skin is really needed to hold up those pumpkins!

The boys were still sick on Halloween morning, but we got them into their costumes for a quick picture anyway.

Brett was pretty super considering how miserably sick he was.

After getting ready for the day I put my wig on and came out to see my kids.  They thought I looked so cool!  I wore it most of the day just to brighten their day.

This pic is from the Fall Festival on Saturday night.  Keith won the costume contest for the adults.  I think the monkey pinned to his shoulder was a nice touch!

Camille was our only trick-or-treater this year.  Keith took her to a few houses and of course over to his parents house that's close by.  The boys stayed inside (mostly) and watched a movie.  They were really good sports about it all.  Keith and I sat outside on our driveway handing out candy til about 8:00 when I deemed it too late for trick-or-treating and I gave out big handfuls of candy, to get rid of it, and then went inside and turned out the lights.  Then we let the boys trick-or-treat inside from door to door in the house.  They got a kick out of that and then they went to bed.  Unfortunately they were both up most of the night crying in pain because their ears hurt.  But that's for another post!  

Even though it wasn't the ideal Halloween for all the kids, it was still great and definitely memorable!