Yikes! It's November!!!

In my last post, I was lamenting that it was September already, and here we are now at November.  How can that be?  We will be listening to Christmas music and wrapping Christmas presents before we know it.  Wait, that means I need to get Christmas presents first.  Agghhhh!  We also have 6 family birthdays to fit in before then with the first being for my sister, Marcie, tonight.  It's a crazy month.  But before all that happens, we get a little break and the family is heading to sunny California (I'm actually not sure how sunny it is going to be) to visit Mickey and Shamu.  We are also going to be visiting our fabulous friends, the Goves, who moved back down there over a year ago and have been begging us to come down ever since.  Unfortunately, we will be driving down and back, but the time in the middle will hopefully be fun. 

Before I have tons of Disney pics to share, I wanted to make sure I got up my Halloween photos up, especially for my in-laws who have probably given up on my blog altogether and figured they would never get an update.

Although at the last minute, we did do our regular trip to the pumpkin patch where the kids each picked out a large and small pumpkin to decorate.

 



Justin's pumpkin.  You can't see it, but there is a knife sticking out of the side of it's head.



That night, we carved the pumpkins.  All the kids drew their own faces and went right to carving.  Hannah got extra fancy this year on her face.  Owen's was very cute, although mommy carved it and had to adjust the mouth since he drew just a single zig zaggy line.  He also always has to have the line between the nose and mouth, which he for some reason calls, "the soap."  Here are their jack-o-lanterns all lit up on Halloween.

Owen's pumpkin is on the left and Hannah's on the right.  Some creature was already nibbling on the mouth Hannah carved, so it wasn't quite as perfect as it originally was.

We got a little creative on Halloween costumes this year too. I actually didn't go out and buy a single thing for costumes except for a gold medal and red curly ribbon.  Those items were for Justin's costume.  He originally wanted to be Tony Hawk, the skateboarder, but I just couldn't figure out a way to make him stand out from any other skateboarder, other than the fact that Tony Hawk is now in his 40's and we'd have to draw wrinkles on Justin's face or something.  I decided that by getting a red wig and a gold medal, Justin could be Pro snowboarder and skateboarder and Olympic gold medal winner, Shaun White, or the "flying tomato."  Wigs were way to expensive, so I improvised with red curly ribbon taped to his helmet.  He actually skateboarded around the neighborhood while we went trick-or-treating. 

Owen decided that he wanted to be Pingu, which is a penguin from a not very well known clay animation cartoon that is in some swedish language or something--actually I don't know if it's a language or just sounds but it's kinda weird but oddly cute whatever it is. By borrowing a friend's penguin hat and adding some orange feet and bow tie to normal black and white clothes, we made him Pingu.





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hannah decided to be a "Smarty Pants" which basically involved pinning Smarties candies to her pants and then dressing nerdy.  She was a very cute nerd, I must say.  She actually did not go trick-or-treating with the boys and I, but went out with a group of friends.  They were out for a couple hours and came home with quite a haul.  Kinda sad that my "little" girl is no longer trick-or-treating with us but she had a great time.