{happy halloween!}

Our Halloween was HAIR RAISING!
(seriously, she woke up with hair like this on Halloween)

Another year that we didn't make it to the Pumpkin Patch...

(we were all sick last week...bad 'virus'/flu?) Poor Bailey is 6 and hasn't ever been to a Pumpkin Patch. Next year, for sure. (but we did go to THREE Halloween parties!)

Thank heavens for WalMart! I bought the kids some pumpkins, and for the first time we actually carved them(I usually just have the kids paint the pumpkins, 'cause nothing is nastier than pumpkin guts! But they needed to 'experience' the real thing, said Dad). The kids drew faces on the pumpkins, and then Brandon and I gutted (ick!), and carved. I must have been so traumatized by the pumpkin guts that I forgot to take a picture of the finished Jack-o-lanterns.

Speaking of Jack O-Lanterns and trauma...

Benson has been saying for months that he wanted to be a "punkin" for Halloween. He even picked the costume out. But when it came time to actually wear it, he totally flipped! Can't you see how happy he is in it? He screamed and threw the biggest fit until WE finally gave up, and took it off. No amount of persuasion or bribery would console him. So I got out my back-up costume for him to wear, a Fireman, which he also LOVES (normally). Same reaction. Hysterics. Finally I said that he could just go in his Halloween t-shirt that he was already wearing. Then Bailey flipped out. He couldn't possibly go trick or treating with her if he didn't have a costume. So we asked him what he wanted to be and this is what he came up with...

Yep. That's right...a WITCH.

'nuf said.

Here's Bailey as a Cowgirl.

She's wanted to be this since the Rodeo in March. Luckily, we had no problem getting her to wear it.

The Cowgirl and The Cross-Dressing Witch.
Missing one?

A cute, little, pink leopard that went to bed instead of trick or treating.