halloween - just a little late

halloween has come & gone. we went to trick-or-treat on the square in 50 mph wind gusts. olivia kept losing her hat. rachel cried that she was cold. we were half way around the square & olivia asked if we could leave. she is officially the only kid in the history of the world that doesn't like getting free candy for wearing a costume. i made her finish out the square. she griped the entire rest of the time. and i turned into the mom that was all "this is supposed to be fun. i don't want to do this, you want to do this" and i'm leading the way for my girls. every other kid there is running a good 10 feet in front of their parents & i am dragging mine. awesome, friends. just awesome.

when finished on the square we went home to wait for daddy. the girls suckered me into carving pumpkins - which i detest. the smell. the mess. all around disgusting-ness. i didn't have any templates or the carving kit things because, as i said, i don't dig carving pumpkins. so i'm left to my own devices. old-school. a black sharpie & my wolfgang puck knife set. they turned out alright. but i only had 2 actual candles. (sidenote: i don't have candles anymore because scentsy is my new kryptonite.) so in the 2 smaller pumpkins are birthday candles bundled together with teeny rubberbands sitting in shot glasses. which is now my very own hint from heloise. you're welcome. funny that i don't have 4 candles in my house, but i had 6 shot glasses.



(left to right) rachel's, jar's, mine, & olivia's - but really all mine because it did them all. by myself.



we did pictures outside after dark because i felt like we had to. it was fuh-reezing! they wouldn't really cooperate. they were cold. it was windy. halloweentown was on inside & they wanted to go back inside to watch the movie.

olivia said "it's halloween, i should do crazy eyes". mission accomplished, my dear.

and rachel's crazy eyes are courtesy of my camera flash & i didn't even fix the red-eye. happy halloween!

my favorite thing about halloween - my mantle. i love it. (but i'm ready to get those corn stalks off there & put up my christmas stuff.)

when jar got home, we went trick-or-treating at his mom & dad's - where rachel was scared out of her mind. and screamed bloody murder for a solid 5 minutes. this girl is scared of her own shadow. but in her defense, vanessa does go all out for halloween - it was a bit scary. probably super scary for a 5 year old little prim & proper lady.

we hit up my mom & dad's too. they were exhausted. but were super happy to show off their costumes (which everyone had seen already at rachel's birthday party 3 days earlier)

we didn't eat dinner that night. we just ate candy. and i feel like i have eaten candy every single day since. tis the season to put on that extra weight.

there you have it. oh what fun we had on halloween night!