Halloween

Although the kids were out of school on Wednesday, October 31st, the rain had let up and every kid in the area was ready to get out and trick or treat! Yes, Halloween was still on!
That afternoon we finally got around to carving our pumpkins.

Unfortunately for poor Xander his pumpkin did not survive Hurricane Sandy. Due to its extreme rottenness, we only carved out a mouth and pulled some of its guts out to make it look like the pumpkin was throwing up. Xander drew a little face on it as well. Xander was a good sport about the whole thing and the other kids were actually a little jealous about how cool Xander's pumpkin turned out to be.

Along with the puking pumpkin we had Savannah's cyclops pumpkin (with stubble, she was proud to point out)

and Noah's pumpkin with three eyes!

Since finally joining Pinterest a couple weeks ago I had a ton of fun Halloween foods that I decided to make for dinner. The kids were really excited to dine on mummy dogs, bones with blood dipping sauce, apples with caramel, ghostly bananas, Frankenstein kiwis, string cheese fingers, Jack-o-lantern mandarin oranges, and Frankenstein pudding.

Ready to head out and collect candy from complete strangers! Yes, I still believe Halloween is the strangest holiday.

Scary Xander, the Phantom of Death! He only made it through our neighborhood and then headed home with David.  He's just not a candy guy.

Hermoine Granger  and Sir Noah made it a lot longer and we actually hit a bunch of houses outside our immediate neighborhood.

What a candy haul!