Halloween Wrap Up

 For the first day of November and the first day of a month of thankfulness, I am thankful that Halloween is over.  I know, I have certainly said it before... not my favorite holiday.  Halloween is a special annoyance when it falls on a Wednesday.  Who planned that? 

I do try to get in the spirit for my kids because they love Halloween. We started on Tuesday with a trip to the pumpkin patch with a hundred or so kindergarteners.

 Keith's first field trip!  They got to ride on the bus and pick a pumpkin right out of the patch.  And there were port-a-potties!  Plus it was blazing hot and dusty!  I jest (sarcastically) it really was a good time.

Just to show you that I'm not the Grinch who Stole Halloween, I even made my kids a special Halloween breakfast.  I didn't do anything else on my Halloween Pinterest board but I did this:



The rant continues....I dislike Halloween costumes.  They are cheaply made, but WAY overpriced.  If you have to do more than trick or treat, most costumes fall apart. 

 Patrick makes up his mind about his costume the year before.  In fact, we even bought his costume last year!  Keith wants to be every ridiculous thing under the sun.  It changes daily in the months leading up to Halloween.  So!  When I asked him to pick his costume at 8:30 in the morning, I thought we would have enough time to sort it all out before the Halloween party at 11:00.  If Aunt Rachel hadn't come to the rescue, Keith and I would still be arguing about the costume.  Keith was rocking the best costume ever.  And it was super durable too!

 Keith and his buddies at school. 

 The double bonus was that my pumpkin patch entry fee came with a pumpkin too.  Considering the lack of time and energy devoted to Halloween, those pumpkins came in handy (because we had zero).   I did try to convince the boys that we didn't have to carve pumpkins.  Kevin was working and that is his thing (I'm the pumpkin carving photographer and wine drinker.  He's the pumpkin carving supervisor.).   
 They wouldn't hear of it.  So we carved pumpkins on Halloween... at 4:40.  The kids were great.  They couldn't wait to get in their costumes after dinner.

 Patrick did his own makeup.  Keith is stabbing himself with a pitch fork.  Lauren is making an elephant sound.  These kids make Halloween really fun.

Happy Halloween!