Halloween really couldn't have come at a better time for us this year. Mason's latest obsession turned to zombies and mummies right before the Halloween season started so we had a fun Halloween season full of reading books, playing games, and making projects that all centered around these spooky creatures. After going back and forth on which of these he wanted to be for Halloween he finally settled on a mummy. As soon as he slipped his costume on Mason was in full character.
Brynn had known for months she wanted to be Cinderella.
She made one beautiful princess!
I decided Miles would be a monkey for Halloween since we already had the costume from when Mason was his age. The only problem is Miles absolutely would not, under any circumstance, let us put the costume on him. When we asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween his response was one of two things: mailman or big truck. Let's be honest. He had no idea what we were asking him he was just naming a few of his favorite things. I went ahead and threw together this big truck anyway and he agreed to wear it...at least long enough for a pictures.
Ellie was an adorable little mouse.
Cinderella and her little mouse friend.
Ellie has started doing this where every time she smiles she sticks her tongue way out. I absolutely love it!
We had amazing fall weather the week before Halloween which allowed us to set up pumpkin carving stations outside which was really fun.
As always I manned the pumpkin cleaning station since Scott can't stand scrapping pumpkin guts. Mason dove right in this year and cleaned his own pumpkin entirely on his own.
Scott then headed up the design and carving station. Per the kiddos request we stuck with our tradition of carving their pumpkins to match their costume.
Sorry for the picture overload, but it was impossible to get a picture of all the kids together with their pumpkins.
Mummies
Brynn's was Cinderella's pumpkin carriage.
Remember how Miles was supposed to be a monkey? We couldn't keep him away from the pumpkins all month, but when we wanted him to sit next to one for a picture he all of the sudden wanted nothing to do with it. But it was nothing that couldn't be handled with a sucker bribe.
Ellie loved her Mouse pumpkin.
There's that tongue again.
While we had fun diving into the Halloween spirit at home, we kept things pretty simple as far as Halloween parties were concerned. We still keep pretty well to ourselves these days and so something has to be really enticing to pull us out of our little bubble. The only thing that did that this year was Grandma Nancy's annual Halloween bash. It was full of all it's usual fun, the only thing that would have made it better is if Rachel Faye, Andrew, and Kendall were there.
Miles would only sit next to his big truck for the group picture, but was happy to put it on to go outside with Grandpa's big white truck, the inspiration for his costume.
In the middle of the party Mason disappeared. While checking in one of the back rooms I walked into quite the theatrical performance of Mason the Mummy coming alive out of his "coffin". After his scary performance he posed himself like this and asked me to take a picture. I actually think this is a really creepy picture. This kid is one of a kind.
Until next year, Happy Halloween
