Halloween

Today was chaos. Spencer had a dentist appointment at 9:30. I was cleaning at a friend's house from 10:30 until close to noon. Spence went to school and I headed to the grocery store because the whole house was bare. Home from the grocery store to unload groceries, start making the meatloaf for dinner, peel potatoes, and begin cutting pumpkins open to be carved. Plus I was still pulling out decorations. LOL

But it all worked out fine. The Mummy Meatloaf was delicious. The mashed potato ghosts were more like mashed potato pancakes. Not exactly a resounding success, but they tasted okay.



And here are my 4 little costumed cuties:

Garrett (Smartie Pants)




Evan (Twins player Torii Hunter)



Spencer (Frankenstein)




And #4: Princess Pippa!
(and you thought it was gonna be Rob. Ha!)

She ran to the door every time the bell rang tonight. I think she was yelling, "Get me out of here! This crazy lady is trying to put a HAT on me, for god's sake!" LOL Just so we are clear, this was not my doing. I found the hat at PetSmart, but Rob bought it. I lay the blame squarely on his shoulders. LOL



We carved pumpkins using templates from the web --Better Homes & Gardens had a cool jack-o-lantern maker, and I found the skull at some random site. I tried to do a monogram "H" but it wasn't bright enough to show up in the pictures. (Apparently I needed to be a little tougher when scraping the pumpkin's flesh) but it got a lot of comments anyway. Next year I'll do it better.





It was a crazy day but I know the kids had a good time. They loved the meatloaf (apparently scary food tastes better) and got lots of candy. We had fewer than 25 trick-or-treaters this year. A little disappointing. On the up side, though, the weather was gorgeous. Not something we take for granted up here in the North country. The temp was above 50 tonight. Woo hoo.

Thus ends another Halloween. Whew. It's a downhill slide until Christmas. Are you ready?