Halloween

Well it’s about time I blogged about this!  This year Allie was super girl (she loves PBS kids Super Y, so she wanted to go as Super Allie) and Brookie was the green M&M. 

 

We started the Halloween season (is that the right word?) by going to a Halloween party at Martha Stewart’s house…oh I mean Jaime’s house (aka Martha Stewart’s protégé).  We love parties at Jaime’s!  I wish I would have taken a picture of the outside of her house.  HUGE spiders complete with spiders eggs everywhere and a life size man completely wrapped in spider’s web and hanging upside down.  Jaime does not spare any details :)  Thanks Jaime for a fun party!

The spread…and this was just the sweets spread, not the meal she had also prepared.

Martha inspired pumpkin decorations and gluten-free cupcakes! 

I just love these girls!  They are so good to my girls!

And thanks Mike for sitting with Allie outside for most of the night roasting marshmallows and chatting about whatever it is 3 year olds have to chat about :)  Allie loves you!

 

The day before Halloween we finally bought and pumpkin and carved it.  If you do it too early it shrivels up outside!

Allie’s making the same face as the pumpkin!

Brooklynn was also very helpful by providing her usual grins and squeals :)

Our pumpkin wasn’t super creative, just the usual Jack-O-Lantern face, so Allie added a few of her finishing touches.

Gotta love that kool-aid mustache

 

Halloween night we went trick-or-treating with my cousins in Mesa.

We started out the evening by visiting Craig, Jaime’s mom.  She is so sweet to my girls and they love her!  We consider her one of the girls’ grandmas, so naturally we had to stop by her house and trick-or-treat.

 

Chris wore his plumber costume again.  Allie had no clue who it was at first, but she soon realized it was Chris and laughed because she could see Uncle Chris’ bum :)  His costume says McKrackin Plumbing: We’re #1 when it comes to #2. 

Don’t mind how blurry the picture is :)  This is the famous Talking Pumpkin!  Allie and the other kids talk about him all year.  A man my mom’s family has known for years owns this house and sets up a Jack-O-Lantern with a speaker in the mouth.  The man stands in his cul-de-sac and talks to the parents as their kids walk up to the door to get candy.  As they walk by the pumpkin the man talks into a microphone he has in his hand and his voice is heard from the speaker in the pumpkin.  The pumpkin thanks the kids by name for coming to see him and comments on their costumes and how much bigger they are than last year.  The Talking Pumpkin is a HUGE hit every year!