Halloween is over!!

Thank goodness. I'm afraid that as the kids get older, it's only going to get worse. It really wasn't too bad, we never got around to carving pumpkins or toasting seeds or any traditional stuff. We did have a busy week, though. On Wednesday I hosted our weekly playgroup and the other ladies brought craft stuff for the kids to do. They each got to decorate a pumpkin and also make a little spider. The kids had lost interest by the time we got to the spiders, so all the moms just made them for the kids. I made one for Avery and also went ahead and used some the extra supplies and made one for Benjamin, too. Here is Avery with her pumpkin and also eyeballing the spider I made for her:
For actual Halloween day we started out going to downtown Newnan and doing a trick-or-treat event down there. Avery's friends Anna and Maddie were there, along with Maddie's little sister Juliette (and their mothers). It was fun, but really crowded. I got some good pictures of the girls:Halloween night we went to my friend Susan's neighborhood since she had planned on us all riding on their trailer filled with hay and going house to house on a 'hayride'. They live in a really nice upscale neighborhood where all the houses are pretty far apart. It was a lot of fun. The kids all had a blast and didn't tire out too easily. We did get a chuckle out of Susan because I had assumed they had a work truck to hitch this metal trailer to, but it turns out that they didn't...her husband just hitched it to their Lexus SUV. Too funny. For the first part of the week Avery was a princess, but wearing that dress so much (and refusing to take it off once we got home) caused it to start to fall apart. It wasn't the highest quality costume to start, so I wasn't too suprised. We got a lot of use out of it. So last night I threw together a quick cheerleader outfit of things she already had. I put her in her Buffalo Bills outfit she's had and just put her hair up in pigtails. It all worked out. And if you can't tell, Benjamin was Peter from the Narnia series.