The Longest Halloween Post Ever In November...

 Due to the overload of photos, I'll keep it short on words! Halloween is a favorite around here and it didn't disappoint this year. Fun was had carving pumpkins, at school parties and parades, and trick-or-treating with our neighbor friends. Even the littlest brother had a fun night. (If you call being carried around the neighborhood by mom to stay asleep while your big brothers trick or treat for 2 hours!)

Halloween: 2011

All was safe in the neighborhood with these 2 watching out on Halloween:

We started the day with a party at school. All the kids in school got to dress up except Little Brother's preschool class. I have a feeling the teachers didn't want to help all the little super heroes and princesses go potty all day. So, I helped out in Big Brother's party and got to see his school-wide costume parade. After Little Brother got home from school, he immediately put on his costume. That's how I found Batman raiding my fridge for a yogurt drink!

After school, we had pizza dinner at the neighbors house and headed out to trick-or-treat. It was a fun night, just our family this time. We even trick-or-treated at Big Brother's teacher's home! He was so excited! She even gave him 4 pieces of candy!!! About 7:30, Big Brother started to ask to go home. He wasn't really himself. I should've known we were in for it. He woke up the next morning with stomach flu. Poor kid!

My Pumpkins

On our last night without Daddy (he's been in Brazil for work this week) we tackled our pumpkins! To be honest, I was kind of dreading it. In years past we've had tears and fits over the smell and slime. Big Brother started off the night by saying, "Hey, Mommy. This pumpkin looks like your head." I wasn't really sure how the night would turn out! However, this year proved to be the easiest of all!

Big Brother's practice sketches

Big Brother carved it all on his own this year. I was very impressed!

We had to finish off with a photo of the 3 before they rot or dry out. Mine is the Angry Bird, Big Brother's is in the middle and Little Brother requested Batman. They are in the back doing to the Lightsaber show for the camera in the dark!

We even ended the night with Charlie Brown's Halloween movie and some gummy worms. Not a bad night after all!

Partying with the kindies!

Yesterday was the long awaited Halloween party for Big Brother's Kindergarten class. He was so excited to dress up and go to school. Of course, he's Darth Vader this year! I'm one of the 4 Party (Room) Mom's so I got to help out. My station was making Monster Apples. After they traveled through out party stations, the kids got to lead the whole school in a costume parade. 

A few of his classmates

 This little girl has a crush on my guy! Her mom and I work out together and she spilled the beans! I'm starting to think the feeling is mutual- he's been talking a lot about her this week!

Little Yoda came along as my helper. These are some of the apples the kids decorated. They were messy, but pretty cute!

This was his favorite part, the parade. I love how he's waving to me as he walked by! How sweet is my little guy?!

Harvest time!

So our two huge pumpkin vines started many different little pumpkins, all of which wilted away except this one! We went to check on it and found some animal had been gnawing away at it! (Maybe our neighborhood foxes?) So, we figured it was harvest time. The boys and I enjoyed cutting it off the vine and checking out our first pumpkin masterpiece. It was fun to show the kids the process from seed to pumpkin and hoping to carve it later this week. The kids and I enjoyed our little gardening project!

We also did some initial decorating for fall and Halloween. The kids loved the new cling-on bats and bugs and had fun sticking them all over. I made these little BOO letters! Of course, what's Halloween without spider webs? With all this decorating, I'm thinking it's time to plan a Halloween party!