Well since its almost Thanksgiving, I thought I better go ahead and post about Halloween. :) We had a good one this year.
This is really the first year Lucy understood what was going on. She claimed her pumpkin and talked a big game. But when it came time to pumpkin carving, she was perfectly content as a spectator.
Landon on the other hand is at an age, where he is ALL hands on. He and Ash handled all the cleaning out of the pumpkin "guts".
And I did my part by tracing out the design.
Landon took it over from there. He did such a good job and I was impressed that not only he completed the somewhat tedious cutting but was so darn precise with it too. My boy is getting too big!
Our masterpeices! :)
Landon is also getting to the age where he needs to be cool. So, at first, he didn't even want to dress up. Ummmm, he ain't that old or that cool! :) And how we went from not dressing up to taking on Elvis is beyond me, but Landon rocked "the King".
and Lucy was his star struck #1 fan! :) Or as she kept saying "I be a poodle skirt!"
And she was all about the trick or treating. She didn't need me nor was she going to wait on me to go with her from house to house. She had her method down. Run up to the door, say "trick or treaty", get the candy, was not afraid to trade in her candy if needed, a quick thank you or another "trick or treaty" and she was cutting through the yard to the next house.
She was the cutest thing ever in that skirt and I'm pretty sure she knew it too. She had a certain swing in her step. : ) And then there's little bit...
She was a poodle and by far the cutest poddle I've ever laid eyes on. She had zero interest in trick or treating. We would try to get her to walk up, but she would get distracted by something and wonder off the sidewalk. She ended up having her first (and second and third) lollipop that night and to say she loved it would be an understatement. When we had to take it away briefly to get her sticky mess of a costume off, she pitched an absolute hissy fit, which abrubtly ended the second the lollipop went back in her mouth. ha!
Even Ash and I had some Halloween fun. My sister has a birthday at the end of October and her sweet hubby threw her a surprise "Day of the Dead" party.
And they had a facepainter there to paint masks for all the guests. Ash and I had another party that night, so we went a little more elaborate with the masks than any other guests. So after the fun brithday surprise we headed over to the other party, which was a costume party. Our masks were our costumes...
And when we arrived, we were greeted with a personal serenade by none other than Willie Nelson. :)
and a few other select guests...
That party was a blast too and I wouldn't expect anything less, when the "most interesting man in the world" is there!
All in all, it was a great Halloween 2011!
