happy halloween

a banana...yep, she's a banana.  completely her idea.  oh!  lipstick is a must.  last year, she was one of the thousands of elsas.  this year, she was the one and only banana!

hulk...because avengers are awesome.  an avenger who smashes stuff is even more awesome.  plus, it's basically the most perfect costume ever for carter!

now, it's time to go get some candy!!!

we met up with dorothy, the scarecrow, a ninja, and batman (the minion was sick and we were sad).

they don't even need us now except they may not have any idea how to get back home.

checkin' out all the loot!!!

and eatin' it too!

we had another super fun halloween!

pumpkin carving

we had some friends over to hang out and carve pumpkins before trick or treating tonight.  we had lots of fun and made big messes!

tada!!!  a minion and darth vadar

trick ~ or ~ treat

Elsa:  Yep, we did our part of helping make Elsa the most popular costume of the year.  Grace was so excited about dressing up and she felt very beautiful!!!  And, I only have two words:  The Wig.

SpiderMan:  I mean, I hate to one up everyone, but this SpiderMan has a cape.  And sweatbands.  CarterMan was also excited to dress up; he felt very strong and super cool!

Love them!

We met up with The Riddler, a witch and her black cat, and a couple of Minions.  Then we froze while trick or treating!

They were so fast and so independent.  I was basically chasing them the entire time.  They are growing up too fast!

Our attempt at a family pic.  Fail!

This girl loves her some Reese's peanut butter cups!!!

While thawing out, the kids got crazy busy eating candy!!!

We had another super fun Halloween!!!

Halloween 2013

The Movie Star:  Grace's costume was an evolving one...at the beginning of the night she said that she was dressed as mommy (although, I'm pretty sure that I would never wear any of this. ever.), but by the end of the night she claimed she was a movie star.  That's her story and she is sticking to it.  I think all she really cared about was wearing make-up and earrings!!!

The Rock Star:  Carter wanted to be Oona, the purple Bubble Guppie.  I was definitely thrown by that one...how could I dress my boy in a purple mermaid costume???  I decided that he could be Oona, the purple rock star, and he "totally rocked!!!" 

We met up with Iron Man and more of our family to go trick or treating.

After the first house and the first of the candy, Carter decided to walk with his bag open...I guess it saved him some time at each door.

Saved time = more candy!!!

Grace was running to keep up with everyone.  She was not going to be left out!

We went back to Grandma and Grandpa's house to eat some candy (and a little bit of real food)

and do some other stuff too!

phone pic dump

It's been a little while since I've posted my phone pics, so here goes...

We bought Grace some hunting clothes.  That's honestly something that I never thought I would have to do.

I think that it is kinda sad that the only COMPLETE conversations that I can have with my husband are on the phone while I'm driving home from school.  But, at least we have these phone conversations!

I made Grace's halloween costume.

I would STRONGLY recommend NEVER buying "silver" tulle!  It is really just glitter wrapped around a spool.  Ugh!!!

Grace was so excited to finally be headed to the hunt house!

Here she is in the deer stand with Poppa.

Hello fall!

John took a ride on the four-wheeler.  Woo-hoo!

Everyone's pumpkins...so cute!

The two little boys took a Cheetos break from the cold!  It was super cold at the hunt house!

Last week, we made spider soup.  What do you think, was it yummy or yucky?

A kitty and a puppy went trick or treating.

Grace loves playing restaurant.  That's really an understatement.  She can turn any item and any setting into a restaurant.  It reached a new level...yes, that is toilet paper wrapped around some silverware.  She carries it around in her uniform skirt pocket.

I honestly have no words for this, just a huge smile!

Last night, we celebrated Charlie's 2nd birthday.

Today, I sharpened this pencil.  Weird.

Happy Monday!