Halloween Trick-or-Treating

We had a fun night trick-or-treating. Isaac was excited all day. The girls got excited once we got their buckets ready and all started to get dressed. 

Emma started off wanting to walk and was very excited. Excuse the blurry photo it was taken while walking. She was too cute! 

First house, figuring it out. She got a hold of Mary's bucket at home and would not let me switch them even though they are exactly the same. So they had flip flopped buckets all night. 

She caught on quick. 

Mary liked the candy too, 

But wasn't as sure of the strangers. 

At the second or third house Mary refused to go up near the door so she stayed back on the sidewalk while the others trick or treated. 

We visited the houses on our immediate block, which took a while. Then the girls and Kyle stayed home to pass out candy while Isaac and I finished up our street. Here's our window and my attempt to make the word BOO out of lights. 

The girls had a lot of fun helping dad pass out candy. 

I didn't get a photo of all of us but I have some from the other Halloween events we attended. 

Ar-BOO-retum & Pumpkin Carving

We went out to the arboretum today for some of their Halloween festivities. 

We started off inside, Isaac got a piece of candy from the front desk and then we went upstairs for story time. 

Emma was pretty into listening to the story. 

Then we went back downstairs for the craft activity and trick-or-treated for an apple in the gift shop. 

The craft was leaf pounding a flag. Pretty cool how the colors bled through to the fabric. 

We were all pretty warm so we went outside over to the pumpkin hill with the pumpkin house and big scarecrows. After being outside for a while we were cold so we headed back inside to have our picnic lunch. 

We ate our packed lunch then went out to see the rest of the scarecrows. 

Minions & Dr Gru

The girls fell asleep on the way home. Once we got home we prepared our pumpkins for carving. I tried to get them to play in the seeds but they weren't really interested in getting messy. Although they were very intently looking in the pumpkins. 

We broke for dinner once Kyle got home then picked back up on getting the pumpkins carved. (Girls had a bath after dinner and enjoyed joining Isaac and I carving) 

We turned the lights off to preview the pumpkins. Isaac's is in the front on the left, has a faint little smile which is pretty cool. He worked on it a bit more. 

The kids LOVED seeing the pumpkins in the dark. Isaac shouted "it's HALLOWEEN!" And Emma was pointing and oohing. Somehow Mary got a hold of one of the little carvers; Kyle was holding her and felt the point on his chin as we flipped the lights back on. Reminded us of that movie Clue when the lights would go off then back on and the room would be all moved around and someone holding a knife. Haha. 

Isaac and Kyle continued to work on his pumpkin while I put the girls down. 

Here's his final masterpiece. 

Soccer #2

It was a gorgeous night and fairly warm for mid-end October. Here are some pictures of this evening. Love how you can see all the colorful trees in the background. 

I still had the wagon in the van from BooZoo with no stroller so we used the wagon to walk around. I was able to keep the girls somewhat occupied with snacks but once they plowed through those they really wanted to be out on the field with Isaac and daddy. 

Giving kisses to each other, their new favorite thing. 

The coach had a couple parents throw on jerseys to jump in the scrimmage game for help. Funny how the jerseys are too big on the kids but super tiny on the adults. 

Isaac lined up for a final kick

Fall Play!

The weather has been AMAZING! I couldn't believe Monday when I stepped outside. I was expecting it to be chilly and on the cold side but it was actually warm and amazing. So I grabbed the kids and we immediately went out to play in the leaves! Had to get some photos because it's such a fun time!!