Halloween

Yep, I'm late. Every single blog I read has long since had their fall/Halloween pictures up. Well, better late than never. I actually started composing this on Tuesday of last week, but between kids being sick, church responsibilities, and getting ready for a Super Saturday craft day, it's been a crazy week. So, here is it, a week+ late!

We went to the pumpkin patch the day before Halloween. When you wait that close to Halloween, it's deserted there. So, we had the place to ourselves and all the lopsided pumpkins we'd possibly want to choose from.

Yes, it was seriously deserted. Usually those fields are full of people, but I suppose no one decided to wait as long as us. Their loss...I held out for a nice day and sure enough it was sunny at 65 degrees, so it was worth the wait! Here are Jackson and Delaney, all alone on the tractor train.
Miss Addie waiting patiently in the stroller as brother and sister enjoy the afternoon.

Once they picked their pumpkins, it was a quick run by the Mac store for dinner, and then onto carving. Here are their pumpkins, sketched out by them and executed with much help from Dad. (Note to those who know about Jackson's weak stomach...he didn't disappoint this year either. Once the top was off and the guts were out, he gagged.) Delaney's is on the left, Jackson's on the right. Addison did have a small pumpkin, but when we went to carve it, it was rotten:(.

Grandpa Critt sent his traditional Halloween treat this year in the form of chocolate pumpkins. Delaney is wearing the twirly skirt I made for her.

And it didn't disappoint. Boy, does it twirl!!

Illinois has strange trick-or-treating hours. Here, they trick-or-treat from 4-6 pm. So, never in the dark. Which kind of takes away some of the fun, in my opinion. Here is Indiana Jones, complete with a tattoo from the school Halloween party that says "Gimme Candy". Classy, right? We're nothin', if not classy!

And, little Miss Addison in her Halloween outfit from her Great Auntie Carno.

Here's our very own Sleeping Beauty. She's the favorite princess because she's the pink one (this coming from the girl who will only eat Strawberry yogurt because it's pink). Yikes, look at that spider web in the corner of the house! There was a time I wouldn't have posted this picture because of it. But let's be real, how often does sweeping the outside of my house come to the top of my priority list??

Here are all three as they headed out the door. Can you believe that here in the Arctic Midwest it was actually 78 degrees that day? In fact, as they headed off at 5:00 to start trick-or-treating, I checked the weather and it was 72 degrees. No coats required! In fact, the only reason D is wearing a shirt under hers is because it itched. I don't think we'll get many more Halloweens like it, but we'll take it!

Hope everyone else had a great Halloween! We're still drowning under loads of candy. This morning Delaney was begging Jackson for a lollipop from his bag of candy. He kept telling her no (gotta love siblings!) and she was getting more and more upset. I walked in to try to call a truce, only to discover the lollipops she wanted were actually in her bag of candy. They have so much of it, they don't even know whose is whose.