happy halloween!

Happy Halloween!  

Have you felt like our blog has been neglected lately?  It has.  Moving, unpacking, and simultaneously remodeling a house with three kids under three is crazy.  CUH-razy.  We are definitely living in somewhat of a construction zone around here, but hopefully after this week some of the house-wide interior projects will be finished, and we can start getting a bit more settled.  Currently all of our furniture is in the middle of all the rooms while baseboards are being caulked and painted....so that's fun when we have to get up at all hours to tend to babies.  It's dark, and you never know where boxes, furniture, and random belongings might be.  :)  However...in the midst of all this craziness, we had a very fun Halloween!

Last night we carved a pumpkin.  The plan was actually to get six small pumpkins and carve them into the same stacked jack-o-lantern that we have been reading about in Dragon's Halloween...one of Will's favorite books.  However, by the time I went to buy pumpkins, the two stores I had time to go to only had bags of assorted gourds and this one little pumpkin.  So...much like Dragon, we made it work with what we had, and carved the teeniest jack-o-lantern ever!  

strategizing

Matt drew all the different face options, and Will picked his favorite.

Digging out the seeds.  Will looks hard at work here...

In reality, this is what he did most of the time.

Matt did the carving...

And Will put in the candle.

cute!

Our Halloween girls

{they hardly ever look exactly alike to me these days, but I feel like they look pretty identical in this picture!}

For Halloween, we had a frog and two sweet ladybugs.  This was Will's first year to go trick-or-treating at houses other than his grandparents', and he had fun! {C & E came too...you get to do fun stuff when you have a big brother!}  Will also got to trick-or-treat at Matt's office yesterday, so he got the hang of it before the big night.  He also may now think that Matt works in a place with lots of costumes and candy every day.  :)

Family pictures with this crowd are not easy.

I was going to try to pick the "best" one, but there wasn't a clear winner...

We had a little more luck when we separated the kids...it's easier to force them to look in the general direction of the camera when you're one-on-one.  

And this was by far the best shot with the grandparents, so you can imagine what the others looked like, ha!

Definitely should have gotten tights or bloomers for the girls...they grew a lot this month and their dresses were a wee bit small and short.  Sorry ladies!

After the picture-taking, Will wanted to be a tree frog before we headed out for trick-or-treating.

And of course, he got to do a little flying with Daddy...always heart-stopping fun for all.

Happy Halloween from our crazy family to yours!