Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Halloween Festivities!

I know these are late...but there are ton to make up for the lateness!! We took the kids to Zoo Boo with Auntie Mamie, Uncle Matt and Carter...and had tons of fun!! Ceili went as a wizard and Keaton was a turtle - their Mommy was a little behind on their costumes, so we had to make it work with what we had! Carter was a little golfer - too cute!
A few nights later, we all sat around the kitchen table and carved our pumpkins! Keaton just wanted the pumpkins for himself...and even ended up chewing on some pumpkin guts!!
Ceili decided her pumpkin had to have triangle eyes, a square nose, exactly 5 teeth and hair! She was so proud of herself for giving her pumpkin hair all by herself - she did such a good job!!
And Keaton just played with the pumpkin guts...and threw a royal fit as soon as I took the bowl away from him!
And our finished pumpkins...from L-R...mine, Keaton's, Ceili's and Justin's.
So, when I was a baby my parents carved a pumpkin and put me inside my pumpkin and took my picture...Mom always says she was Anne Geddes before Anne Geddes was herself! So, when Ceili was a baby, we carved a pumpkin to look the same as mine as a baby and we stuck her inside the pumpkin for pictures. And...what else could we do but do the same for Mr. Keaton?! So...the tradition continues on...
Nana and Papaw stopped by before Trick-or-Treating to see Little Bo Peep and her lost Sheep!



I took the kids trick-or-treating while Daddy stayed back and handed out candy. Ceili had a BLAST and even asked to go again the next night...and the next night!!

Justin always works so hard on decorating for Halloween and Christmas...I had to show you that his efforts definitely paid off this year! He made the fence one day while the kids and I were gone...and it was just the touch we needed...now it looks more like a graveyard! Kudos to Daddy for making it the house everyone wanted pictures of their kids in front of!!

2 comments:

Nana (Deb Mennel) said...

Cute pictures! Maybe you should come up with a way to make teethers out of pumpkin rinds!! Looks like Keaton enjoyed. The kids were so cute in their costumes. We are glad we got to see them all dressed up.

auntiea said...

so cute. what a cute little lost sheep, and of course a cute little bopeep!! too cute. wish i could have seen them. LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!