Halloween!!

The week of Halloween was a really busy one for us! We finally finished painting the deck and staining all of the deck furniture, so we were ready to put it to use! I invited a couple friends over to carve pumpkins... Daniel invited the rest of the church. :) We ended up with about 12 people and 2 babies carving pumpkins on the back deck. It was a blast! 

These are our finished products :)

 Daniel made the cool deer, and I made the Trick or Treat!

I've always been a big fan of crafty things. I *almost* majored in elementary education so that I could do fun crafts with my kids and have a cutely decorated classroom. Then, I did 20 hours of observation in an elementary school my first semester of college... and I hated it. So I switched my major, made Daniel and teenagers do crafts with me, and consistently decorate my classroom. :) 

So, now that Sawyer's getting a little bigger, I get to start doing crafts with him! We did this craft the Monday of Halloween week.

 Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures of us actually *doing* the craft, because it was a little sketchy to have paint all over a toddler's feet and leave him to move however he wanted for the moment it would take to take pictures. We cut his candy corn feet out and made Halloween cards for all of the grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

Then, even though I had the PERFECT costume to wear to school on Halloween, my body insisted on getting the stomach flu (or the Plague as our family calls it) on Halloween. So if you're waiting for your Halloween card, they'll be there at some point. And if you're wondering what my awesome costume was, stay tuned for next year. 

After puking awhile (and no, I'm not pregnant), I felt better enough to sit in the car in my pjs while Daniel took Sawyer trick-or-treating. 

Since Sawyer has a love for Curious George, and we already had a banana costume for Maggie, obviously we decided to make him a monkey for Halloween. 

 He didn't seem to care that he had a costume on. I'm pretty sure he didn't think it was any different than having regular clothes on. He was, however, quite interested in Maggie's costume.

Enough pictures, Mom! Let's go trick-or-treating!

 Daniel took him to our neighbors' houses (who loaded him up!), and then we went to Grandma Pollitt's and Grandma Brinegar's for some treats.

 Once he figured out that he was getting treats, he was very interested in the process. He stood like this waiting for Daddy to open a treat for him!

 He was also more interested when he found out that he was a monkey!

Sweet chocolate-faced monkey boy!