Thanksgiving

Here are some pictures Joy and I took during our Thanksgiving festivities. Joy and I went to Kellogg Park to look at the decorated trees and the huge Creche then spent time with her Mom at the nursing home. Lastly we spent time with my family.

Hutchinson Pandas

Here are our Halloween costumes!! We dressed up as pandas.

Halloween 2013

Here's a picture of the boys in their costumes. Walter is a chicken. The astute reader may recognize this costume from a few years ago when Harvey wore it, although Harvey was two when he wore it. Harvey is a cowboy/farmer. We had a vampire costume for him that he had helped pick out, but he had worn this outfit to school and didn't want to change out of it when it was time for trick or treating. (His school doesn't do costume dress-up for Halloween, they have a "Harvest Day" where everyone can dress like a farmer.) Maybe he'll want to be a vampire next year.

As for the night itself, it was pretty rainy, so Harvey only wanted to do three houses. We basically just did our immediate neighbors and then came home. I think we got about 30 kids the whole night. I had over half the candy left at 8 o'clock when trick or treating ends. So I left the light on and decided to give away the rest of the candy if anyone else showed up. At 8:15, three teenage boys rang the bell, so they each got two huge handfuls and that was almost everything.

Halloween

 We don't have Noah's pumpkin here because he finished it a few days before we did so it was already on the porch. I did Hello Kitty for Lucy and Eric loves doing the intricate carvings.

 Jack doesn't appear in any pictures because he fell down right before we took them and was screaming...plus he didn't have a costume, what I bought him didn't fit so he just wore a Batman shirt with his monster jacket.

 You can't see them, but Lucy has wings. She was a princess fairy. I made her skirt and her necklace and we bought the wand and wings and the tiara was a birthday present last year.  I found Noah's costume at Good Will sans the mask-he is Optimus Prime-so we wore his Batman mask and cape so he could be super hero Optimus Prime. 

The kids got loads of candy and we have tons of extra, so if you are running low or need a fix I would be MORE than happy to mail you a box-really. Happy Halloween!!