Halloween Costumes

This year, the costumes were a combined effort of Me, Michael, and my Mom.  Ethan's didn't involve any sewing whatsoever, but all that spray painting was frustrating.  He turned out awesome.  So, without further adieu...

One Green Plastic Army Man

and One Pretty Peacock

Emeree kept strutting around sticking out her chest and clasping her hands together.  And of course, Nathan had to point out that technically, she was dressed as a male peacock.

Michael made the bazooka out of wood and pvc pipes.  It turned out cool, but Ethan didn't want to carry it around so it stayed in the car when we trick-or-treated.  We had 3 different events the week of Halloween - trunk-or-treat, a carnival, and Halloween.  So we tried 3 options for Ethan's face...a green mask, face paint, and then finally...nothing.   My vision was to have his face and hands green like the clothes so that he was all one uniform color to look like a plastic toy.

Pumpkin Patch '12

We usually go to the pumpkin patch with my in-laws.  But they were in Italy, so we had to go alone...sniff, sniff.  Anyway, so that meant we had to take our family picture as 2 pics and we weren't there as long without grandparents to help follow the kids around.  But we did manage to get a few great pictures of the kids.

 It was really calm and there weren't a lot of people there that day.  It was supposed to rain, but ended up getting really sunny about 5 minutes after getting out of the car.  So that was nice to not have a lot of people around in the background of all the pictures.

 Ethan found a really warty-bumpy pumpkin.

Emeree seemed like she was having a conversation with the chickens.

 Water duckie races - Ethan had fun with that.