November 8, 2010

all things halloween....

i was a really good mom this year for halloween...
a) i made my daughters adorable costume from scratch, no pattern
b) i threw a cute little halloween get together with some friends
c) i decorated with spider webs and all the garb
but then also i was a really bad mom this year for halloween...
a) i took no actual pictures on halloween day
b) we trick or treated to two houses + grandparents
c) charly didn't even like our ward activity...wouldn't let us put her down!
d) and no pictures of our cute pumpkins that we carved, now long gone at the dump!
okay... so here's what I did capture...

THE CUTE OWL
THE PARTY COMERS
(by the way...so cute)

little lamb leighton jo


the whole gang
leighton - charly - mack - nyasame as above
drivin' the helicopter
mack the monkey

thanks guys for coming! i wish i would have got them all in their costumes...but it just so happened to be 80 degrees that day. the kids got too hot and we had to take off their costumes!

CHARLY'S FIRST PUMPKIN CARVE
she liked it, but didn't really want to get her hands dirty...weird since she loves to play in the mud and sand! oh well, it only took about an hour to empty this cute little pumpkin out! then i carved a baby jack-o-lantern (no picture) and that was that! later i lit them and her lid shrunk and fell into the pumpkin only to burn to a crisp!

so here's to next year...i'm hoping i can be a fun AND on top of it mom for halloween!