Halloween 2016

We had a great Halloween this year, with lots of candy, and perfect weather. We started the morning off at the kiddie parade at school. For some weird reason they wouldn't let the Pre-K kids dress up, so I only have pictures of Danyn and Rory.

After school it was pumpkin carving time! We had lots of pumpkins this year, but we made the mistake of forgetting that with Maisie getting home so late, she wouldn't have time to carve her pumpkin. So I did hers for her with a magical theme. Finn was interested in his for about ten minutes, and then he was done. All he really wanted was a ghost.

Danyn wanted to carve a bat with a tree nearby, but learned that intricate carving can be tricky.

Rory wanted to do a witch, but she kept drawing things that were too tiny. So I suggested Teag copy the design from my Halloween shirt, and he ended up with a pretty impressive display.

I figured out that by using a dremel, I could carve through a pumpkin and get some pretty fine details, which was also how Teag did the witch so finely.

It allowed for a much more elaborate carving ability than what we've had before. And given the fact that we had pirates on our porch, I felt it was only right to carve my pumpkin into a Jolly Roger.

Once they all had lights, we had quite the pumpkin collection.

After carving, we hurried to get some pictures of the kids in their costumes. Finn was Chase, a Rescue Bot (Transformer).

Rory was a Winter Princess, whatever that may be.

And Danyn was Wednesday Addams, a role which she took very seriously, as you can see by the picture.

Maisie was a social butterfly for her party at school, but by the time we got her pictures, she didn't have the Facebook/Instagram/Twitter etc. badges on anymore.

After that, it was time to go to Grandma Rogers for the annual Spooky Dinner. It did not disappoint!

As gross as the meatballs looked, they were tasty! I also stole a skeleton cupcake for myself, to tide me over while handing out ten pounds of candy to neighbor kids. We got to see all the cousins in costume, which ran the gamut.

Teag took the youngest three Trick or Treating, while Maisie, who's aged out, went to a party with friends.

It ended up being a pretty good night, but ended rather poorly when Finn peed through his costume with no warning. Oh well. That night, we felt it best to bring our porch skeletons into the house in case any hoodlums decided to make off with them. And that gave us a great idea to surprise our kids in the morning.

But apparently our kids have no sense of humor, and didn't appreciate waking up to a skeleton sitting at the kitchen table in the dark. Can't understand why.

All in all, a great Halloween, and another one for the books!