Happy Halloween (in November?)

I know Halloween is looooonngggg gone... but I thought I best post a few pics from our festivities before everyone is into the Christmas spirit!

We enjoyed a great October with lots of traveling (yet to post the pics) as well as some great fall and Halloween activities: we spent a long weekend in Italy, as well as a quick weekend trip to Brussels, we also did a lot of local things and visited a corn maze, carved pumpkins, went trick or treating and Benjamin had a class "Where the Wild Things Are" parade. Our month was a bit of a blur with one thing after another. But fun-filled nonetheless.

Since our October was so busy, it wasn't until right before Halloween that I took the kids to pick out pumpkins.

The commissary was down to some pretty slim pickins by then so we opted to try a German pumpkin stand. It worked out great and the kids really enjoyed picking out their pumpkins.

However, once we started carving I realized that we mistakenly bought a couple of pumpkins obviously NOT intended for carving. They were rock solid. And, um, as you can imagine, trying to carve a rock was NOT easy. But I was determined and made it through all three pumpkins.

Note to self: Beware of the variety of pumpkins at the German pumpkin stand next year.

October 31st fell on a Sunday this year so our military community had trick or treating on Saturday. We had black Spiderman, Captain America and a cute white lil bunny. Grace took a good long nap that afternoon and missed out on most of the trick or treating. Luckily, she didn't know what she was missing out on!

The boys and I walked around our neighborhood with their friend who was a cute lil lion. They all had a great time.

Although, Samuel started complaining that his stomach hurt about halfway through trick or treating.

He toughed it out though and made the rounds. In hind site, that was just the beginning of a whole lot of sickies in our house. ugh.

We had a rough start to November with one child or another sick for at least two weeks straight. I was starting to go stir crazy as I spent many days at home. I think we are finally on the mend here.

But, rest assured Kleenex, we still have plenty of runny noses and feel as if we solely support you.