We Had A Happy Halloween

Brace yourself for a couple of picture posts, and I do mean Tons-O-Pics!! Between Halloween and Meggie's birthday there was a lot of camera time here lately. ;-)

On Halloween I finally made the chocolate pretzels. I'm not the best when it comes to working with chocolate and molds, but I didn't do too shabby. The kids seemed to enjoy.

Meg enjoyed hers later than Ali & Josh because she took a power nap. She needed to be rested up for the long night.

We carved pumpkins on Halloween. (Note to self...Don't do that again! Too stressful!!) We found out that Meg's pumpkin was rotted, and when Jeff went to set it back down, it bit the dust big time. Check out the mess we were left with.

Thankfully I got that cleaned up before the trick-or-treaters stepped in that mess. Ick! Daddy did a great job carving the pumpkins. He gave the kids what they wanted. Of course, Meg supervised to make sure he was doing a good job.

After pumpkin carving, we had our traditional Halloween night dinner...sloppy joes. Yum!

Then it was time to get all the kiddos in their costumes.
Meghan was Raggedy Ann.

Josh was a Motocross racer. He was quite the poser. Here he is all sassy like a true model.

This pose says, 'I have got to go poo.'

This pose says 'Oh, I threw my back out!' I'm tellin' you he was cracking me up!

Ali was the devil.

I highly doubt the real Devil is as beautiful as my baby girl.

I love this picture of all three of them together. Ali is her cute self. Meghan is being cheesy, which is so normal for her, and Josh is too interested in Meg's to even look at the camera. Those are my munchkins!

Either we got ready early or it was taking longer to get dark than usual. Daddy was convinced they shouldn't go trick-or-treating until dark, and the waiting was killing all of us. So, of course, I took more pictures. Here they all are with their treat bags.

We had a bit more time, so I took a few more pics. ;-) I love Meg's eyes in this one.

And I think Josh just looks like a handsome little guy here. Notice that his cast is off (Yahoo!), and also notice that the fingers on his right hand are curled under. He starts therapy on this on Tuesday. They are just so stiff. Also, his dr. thinks he bruised his ulnar nerve when his bones broke, so his pinky and ring finger on that hand may take quite awhile to go back to normal.

Ali is just such a beautiful little Devil!

Finally the waiting was over, and Daddy took them out trick-or-treating. They started going around our neighborhood, but it was quickly apparent that not too many people were handing out candy. We are assuming they weren't home. Kind of sad! They went on to my mom's neighborhood. Jeff stayed at her house and passed out candy. She took the kids around, and while they were out they went to the haunted house that is located at this home. Apparently Meg's got scared and cried, but Josh & Ali enjoyed it and went through twice. After they were done at my mom's house, they went on to Jeff's parent's house. They hung out there for awhile.

While they were doing all of this, I was enjoying passing out candy at our house. I had the Halloween lights on, and I had candy in our ghost head.

I lit candles and enjoyed the scent, as well as the coziness.

I even went outside to check out our pumpkins. I had plenty of time to do this, since we got less than 30 trick-or-treaters all night.

The lights inside the pumpkins change colors quite often. Fun!

I got to talk to both of my sisters while the kids were out. It was odd not being interrupted a million times or trying to hear them over the screaming.

Of course, my little goblins got home safely, and they were only on a minor sugar high. Meg was all smiles as she wore her bag around her neck.

Josh looked like he was coming down off of his sugar high. More like crashing down hard and ready to sleep.

Ali, as usual, was wide awake and ready for more action.

Eventually we found Meghan doing this on the kitchen floor. I think Raggedy Ann had just had too much. She isn't sleeping, but she is pretty darn relaxed.

I would have to say that our Halloween was a success! Fun was had by everyone!! The kids got up earlier than mommy, and when I got out of bed, this is what I found.

They were trading candy. Too cute! I was actually awaken by Meghan who wanted me to open a Tootsie Roll for her. Thankfully she hadn't eaten any candy before that. None of them had, so I rewarded them with a piece. Josh tried to make his piece a full size 3 Muskateer bar. Crazy kid! He must think I am nuts to give him that before 7:30 in the morning. LOL!

I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween too!