Spookie Ookie Week

I got an email from my friend Aidan last night asking me to post my Halloween pictures already! I know I've been a little lax in posting lately but it's not because I haven't been snapping pictures (you just wait and see!) or because I've been lazy- we've been crazy busy around here! Here's our spookie ookie week in review:

Ghoulish Delights:

Deviled Ham Sandwiches

Frankenstein Hand Cupcakes

It think the cupcakes were a hit!

Check out Peyton's genuine chocolate face!

Mummy Dogs and King Tut's Tot Pyramid:

Peyton was in pure meltdown mode so he didn't even get to see this in its un-cut up form. :-(

Vampire Sausage Soup:

Peyton actually asked for seconds of this!

I can't get these pictures of our Halloween Pancakes to rotate, but you get the idea:

'Persnickety Pumpkin'

'Skirmish Skeleton'

We also had Dirt Dessert (chocolate pudding, oreo 'dirt' and gummy worms) as well as Pumpkin ice cream and tonight I'll be making pumpkin pudding with cinnamon-sugar puff pastry leaves (we had so much going on that we didn't get to do all we wanted to)!

Movies we shivered to:

Dracula

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein

The Uninvited

Movies yet to watch (Halloween week continues!):

The Mummy

The Old Dark House

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Pumpkin Carving Night:

His and Hers

 Let's Dig in!

Ewww... Squishy pumpkin guts!

Marking the pumpkin for surgery

Coming right along...

It's all in the details!

Troy's Goofy Face

Lexi's 'Hot Dog' pumpkin.

{Hot Dog is what Peyton calls Mickey Mouse because of the

Hot Dog dance they do on the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!}

Fall Festival at Peyton's School on Friday:

He looks thrilled, don't you think?

In the gym they had a bean bag toss, fishing poles to fish for treats, a duck pond (like they'd have at a fair), a balance beam and out on the covered playground a bounce house.

I tried to sneak back to get pictures of the kids in action but by the time Chloe woke up from her nap we had missed it!

So while that big skeleton played the day away, this little skeleton had lunch with Daddy!

Church 'Trunk Or Treat':

It was sunny. And hot. And miserable.

We were there for maybe ten minutes before Peyton threw fits and we had to leave.

And he wouldn't get in his costume, he wouldn't let us hold him and he screamed when we tried to give him nachos. So we left. Pronto!

Troy was a Bruce Lee Kung Fu Master, I was Miss Alaska (no pictures of me- there was no time before the tears started in earnest), Peyton was supposed to be a dragon but made do with his skeleton shirt and Chloe roasted as a ladybug.

As Cute as a Bug!

(Which is funny because bugs aren't all that cute in real life!)

Oh my goodness, is she not the cutest?!

Sweet lil' love bug!

After the 'Trunk or Treat' fiasco, we went home and killed some time before trying to Trick or Treat. Here are the boys swinging away!

Finally it was time for some Trick or Treating!

Peyton got the idea a little better than last year, but he was still more interested in trying to go into people's homes than the candy that was put into his bucket!

A few times he dropped his bucket and shouted with dismay, "My Trick or Treat!"

Then the moon came out and the sky faded away and it was time to go in for the night.

The End.