Happy Halloween!

Jack LOVES Halloween. He gets so excited for the annual trip to Target to pick out costumes and is the King of pumpkin carving. Thankfully the first costumes purchased this year ended up being the ones actually worn on Halloween. (We've learned to avoid returning to Target with the boys until after Halloween to avoid the weekly costume exchange that took place in years past.) Here are a few photos from the week:

The preparations:



The costumes (Ninja, Wolverine and Witch):



The Excitement: Sage cracked us up because she would run from house to house, while the boys casually walked. She would then frantically search for the door bell and then position herself right in front! Although she was unable to outlast Ty, she proudly outlasted Connor (as you can see from her pure excitement here).



The final outcome: Perhaps the "criminal" in the family will have to assist with all that candy or else we may see a few more visits from the tooth fairy in the near future.




The sugar rush: Although it didn't have much of an affect on the boys, you can see that was not the case with Sage. (It also affected her ability to sit lady-like.)





The UGLY:

So around 10:30 p.m. the kids are all in bed and Jack and I are up in our bedroom watching TV when we hear this noise outside our home which is clearly someone attacking our poor pumpkins. We run downstairs to find some hoodlums running down the street. The devastation on the doorstep was something Jack didn't want the boys to see as they'd be heartbroken so he disposed of all the evidence and thankfully we had our first winter wind storm last night and this morning when the boys noticed the pumpkins gone, it was pure delight to hear them say "oh no! Our pumpkins must have blown away in the wind." Shortly after they were down the street looking for them knocking on neighbors doors asking if they had seen them. In the end they concluded they must have rolled down the street and bounced onto the golf course. Sounds good!