Halloween Hap-nins :)

Halloween was a little "off" this year.....we were facing COLD and whirlwind weather from Hurricane Sandy, the girls were recovering from colds (and Clairy still had an "iffy" tummy), and Grandmama and Lea also had the sickies. Still, we had a swell time!!

Normally, we have our pumpkin carved about a week before Halloween, but this year, some sort of rodent "had his way" with our beautiful, round pumpkin, so we had to get some rinky-dink pumpkins at the last minute. Therefore, we carved our rinky-dink pumpkins THE DAY BEFORE Halloween. Of course, we had to get homework done first.......here's a little video of my bilingual baby reading one of her Spanish books....

Once homework was conquered, we could focus on the rinky-dink pumpkins. Nora and Ella decorated their's and Clairy's with stickers. They were very proud!!

Then, it was time to carve the main rinky-dink pumpkin. Daddy, Ella, and Nora dove in....

Nora thought it was "wayyyyy, gross!!"

Claira and I hung out on the porch and watched all the pumpkin-action....

However, I did make my contribution by drawing the face of the little pumpkin (ya know, that takes REAL SKILLS!!!)

Daddy "cheated" this year by using his "power-tools" to carve the rinky-dink (if you look closely in the background, you can see our initial beautiful pumpkin that had been violated by a large rodent......and yes, it's sitting on our deep-freezer....that's in the yard.....waiting to be cleaned.....it's all about CLASS and impressing our neighbors this Halloween.) ;)

Our rinky-dink turned out pretty great if you ask me.....ears and all....

The next day was finally HALLOWEEN!!! Here's our witch, the witch's black kitty......

.....and the witch's "magical pumpkin" (head-piece compliments of the pipe-cleaners of one of Nora's FAVORITE teachers ~ art teacher Mrs. Fulton!!!)

Here's our special 3 together......

Off to Grandmommie's & Paw-Paw's we went (and this is one of my FAVORITE pictures of all time....for many reasons).

 I was a deer (again, pipe-cleaners compliments of Mrs Fulton!!! And Clairy-Berry was either really mesmerized or really scared of her little "light-up" ghost).

And Daddy was the deer-HUNTER.....can you see him in his camouflage??? (Holding Matthew and Claira....who had already changed into her pajamas....I so wish I had gotten a picture of both of them in their "pumpkin onesies!!")

And Lilah was a cowgirl.....

Finally, it was time to go trick-or-treating .....

 We ran into Senorita Hutchinson with her son, Christopher (which excited Nora soooooo much), but since I had an "extra bundle" to carry this year, I had to leave the camera at home. :( But thankfully, I got a picture of all of us before retiring the camera for the night....

Happy Halloweenies!!!!!! ;)