Slacking on Halloween (or not)

Ya I know I've taken forever to post these, but I've had good excuses this time. We just have so many fun things to do for Halloween (on top of the fact that I got all the girls' pictures taken at Penney's on 3 different days, and McKenzie's baptism was the day after Halloween oh and ya, family coming in for that baptism, it's just been a whirlwind of fun).

So to start we went to pumpkin land and had a fun afternoon. We went in the corn maze, played on their play ground, saw some animals, and got to jump on some bounce houses. We carved those pumpkins the weekend before Halloween, and this is is the finished product. We got an email last month showing this pic of a carved pumpkin that had beer bottles around it and it looked like it was vomiting. The funny thing was this guys had carved his other pumpkins to look at the puking pumpkin in disgust. It was hysterical. So this is our attempt at Pumpkin Ralph. Pretty funny I think. McKenzie wanted her's to be a vampire, Morgan (the one below, is a pretty basic one (but she came up with the design herself), Micah's is the multi colored red one (he likes to paint) and the other's are one's that the girls got from going on pumpkin field trips. Halloween evening, my sister from Washington was able to come down for the baptism, and made sure they got here early enough to go trick-or-treating with us. They made it just in time to enjoy our annual tradition of eating Pumpkin Bob (this year was Pumpkin Bobbie, I made a girly face this time on it). It's actually pretty tasty, it's dinner in a pumpkin, you puts lots of different things in and cook in a pumpkin, when it's done cooking, you scoop the dinner along with a little of the pumpkin onto the plate. In the beginning of Pumpkin Bob the kids weren't thrilled about it, but as years have come and gone, they get a little more and more excited to see for this tradition. Unfortunately I was unable to get a pic of it cuz we ate it soo fast. Next year maybe. This is Ellen's little man (Spud) who is a month younger than Malia.

Here's the rest of the crew minus Elvis who was much too busy running around with his dad to sit still for a quick shot.

Earlier that day I was pretty much at the school all day. Each of the kids had parties that I helped with and their annual Halloween Parade through the school that I didn't want to miss. McKenzie is a Asian chickadee. (pretty much a Geisha without all the accessories that go along with that costume).

Morgan was a cheerleader who apparently does not have pom poms. She forgot them and then i forgot to bring them with me when I went back. Oh well, she's still cute.

All in all it was a fun day/week. The kids were counting down the days and just really enjoyed themselves.