Halloween at Our HOuse

We had the cutest Ninja Turtle, Scooby Doo, and baby giraffe at our house this past weekend! Here are some pictures so you can agree.

As my good friend, Meg, observed...we are having the hardest time getting all of our kids to smile and look at the camera at once. I usually take several pictures and then just give up and usually have to post a few of certain poses so that you can see all of their faces. :) You will see later on that David is much better at this than I am. :)s a few more pictures 'cuz this was her first Halloween and all.
Kacianna get

This is them helping to pass out candy after they went trunk or treating. There was actually a pretty good turnout. Carter was at first unsure of what was going on, but as soon as he saw that he got candy in his bucket for going to these strange cars, he was all for it. :)




Afterwards we were able to go to Dan and Charbel's and celebrate a Halloween dinner complete with bat wings, mummy dogs, goblin hair, and pumpkin blood. What get together, especially holiday get together would be complete without a cousin picture? Here is one that I stole from Charbel 'cuz our camera died at that point: It was so fun to see all of them dressed up in their costumes, but our kids were pretty well spent at that point and would not look at the camera, let alone smile. :)




Since Halloween was on a Sunday, we did the trick-or-treating on Saturday and saved the pumpkin carving for actual Halloween. We almost got away without doing it, but our boys wouldn't let us skip it. David is, unsuprisingly, a pretty good expert at whipping out custom jack-o-lanterns and did a great job while I got to act as camera lady/baby holder.

He made this cute carving of a pumpkin cottage for Kaci for her first jack-o-lantern and here she is admiring it. In case you're wondering, yes, Kacianna is wearing diaper jeans. No, I don't make a habit of buying designer diapers for my baby...but when you can get them for 2.99 a pack at Riteaid using coupons...it's hard not to buy them. I still would have bought the regular 'cuz there're more in a pack, but they were sold out...so Kaci and Carter get to be in style now. We are hoping that Carter won't be needing them much longer. Is it mean to tell him that Santa will have to bring diapers instead of presents if he's not potty trained by CHristmas? :)

















Here is the picture that Daddy took that got everyone looking and smiling at the camera, nevermind the partially/not dressed children, they are still looking! :)