Halloween

This year Halloween landed on a Saturday which was fun so we could celebrate the whole day!  Madelyn was a witch and Jack ended up being a skeleton.  We had a fireman costume but we were lucky to get him in his skeleton shirt so I didn't push our luck!  The kids missed their school Halloween party as we were in Iowa for Ryan's uncle's funeral so we decided to head to one of the strip malls in Maple Grove where they were doing a special trick or treat on Saturday morning so the kids could dress up.  They loved it!  It was a little rainy and cool but that never seems to bother the kids.  There were bouncy houses and of course lots of candy!

We continued our tradition of trick or treating with the McCormick's in their neighborhood.  Oh my gosh the kids got a ton of candy!  There are so many houses and kids all over -- it is so fun.  The girls enjoy it more and more every year and now we even see people we know which makes it even more fun.  Way too much candy but totally worth it!  Jack was tired about 1/2 way and requested we head home.  Since we weren't on the ball like some of the other families who brought a wagon or stroller, Ryan and I took turns carrying our little (but growing bigger!) skeleton!

Tegan the butterfly fairy, Madelyn the witch, Jack the skeleton and Evie as Ariel!!

The triplets! :)

Each of the preschool classrooms decorated a pumpkin.  I was very impressed with all the pumpkins but was biased to the TMNT which was Madelyn's class and the ghost from Jack's class!

 Then we did our own pumpkin decorating at home.  We used Mr Potato Head which ended up looking super cute.....since neither Ryan or I are very artistic or clever when it comes to carving!