Halloween Highlights

Halloween this year was busy busy! Here's a little bit of what we did:

 

We started off October by busting out the Halloween pajamas

Official Candy Inspector...it's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it.

The weekend before Halloween we headed out to the first annual (?) Farrell Family Halloween Party. It was a blast!

Jon and I went as farmers and brought along our horse, Emma, and our chickens, Matthew and Ellie. 

King Grandpa riding his noble steed

The King and Queen

There was a little doughnut-eating action

 And then we broke out the pinata that Jon made

The next day we (finally!) got some pumpkins and carved them. Halfway through, Jon decided to pull out the power tools and try carving with them. Brilliant!

 For family night the week of Halloween, we had a few friends over to make caramel apples. Despite the fact that I burned the caramel it was a really fun night.

Ellie looked amazing with her post-ponytail hair, candy-covered face, and one shoe.  :)

Emma and her friend Brady all ready for school on Halloween

 

All ready for trick or treating

This little boy wouldn't eat his dinner, despite threats of not getting to go trick or treating. We had to follow through, so I took the girls out while Jon stayed home to give him a chance to finish his food. We came back a while later and he had finished, so we let him go for a few houses...we just couldn't make him miss out on all of it! But I think he got the message.

We went trick or treating on our street and a couple houses on the next street over and then the kids' buckets were completely full, so we came home to pass out candy. Ellie was hilarious trick or treating. The first couple houses she was really annoyed that I was making her go to the door, but then she realized what was going on and was really enthusiastic about it. She knocked on every door, said hiyou when they opened the door, and picked all her own candy.

Picture her little voice saying cheeeee (cheese). She's recently started doing that when she sees the camera.  :)