TRICK-OR-TREATING

This year Daddy & Uncle Ricky took the girls out trick-or-treating, I kinda missed taking them out, but it was fun to see all the kids from the neighborhood dressed up. Ally missed Mommy half way through so I had to go pick her up, then Abby met up with some of her friends and they finished the rest of the way around. When Daddy brought her home she was mad that they had skipped one of the streets. So I of course made him take her back out, and then Ally wanted to go again too, the next time the came back they were all smiles!

The girls and me in our Halloween shirts

Abby the cowgirl

Abby all ready to go

Ally-Dora

Abby & Ally

Sammi, Briannah, Izaak, Ally & Abby

Abby

Emma, Abby, Jenna & Judie

The first time they came in....

When they came back the second time....

ALL SMILES!

ABBY'S SCHOOL HALLOWEEN PARTY/PARADE

Abby's class had a party and a parade of the whole school. I got to be one of the parent helpers. It was lots of fun to see her with her friends all dressed up. The kids had to be a character from a book, so she picked her Sleeping Beauty book. She had lots of fun parading around the school, and playing games and making crafts in the classroom.

Abby & Lauren

Abby with some purple vampire teeth

Abby Lauren & Miranda

Abby's whole class

Abby making a popcorn turkey

TRICK-OR-TREATING DOWNTOWN ELK RIVER

Every year the kids can dress up and go Trick-or-Treating to the businesses in dowtown Elk River. This was our first year, and I could only bring Ally, because Abby was at school. She got a ton of candy, and we had lots of fun. Thanks Jodi for inviting us! Although Ally was very sad that Abby couldn't be with us, she started crying on the way home that she missed Abby. She finds it very hard to do fun things without her sister, I am trying to help understand that they can both have fun doing different things.

Ally doing one of the games they had set up

Emma & Ally

getting some candy

Ally..one the few smiles she did give

Ally & Emma

PUMPKIN CARVING

Our friends Kody & Tayna suggested getting together to carve pumpkins, now we have never done this in the past, because I like to avoid all messy projects in my house, but Curt thought it sounded like fun. So I went and bought a carving kit from Walmart, and Kody & Tayna brought some pumpkins and we carved pumpkins for the first time as a family. I at first told Curt he had to do all the messy stuff, but I eventually got over the grossness of it and helped Abby get hers all nice and cleaned out. Abby thought it was lots of fun, and literally had pumpkin covering her...she needed a bath. Ally wasn't touching the stuff and freaked out when she accidentally got a little on her hand. We had lots of fun and a I think the pumpkins turned out great for first-timers. This is for sure a tradition we will keep...thanks Kody & Tayna!

Curt and Ally

Abby & Kody

Abby

Curt & Ally's finished product

Kody & Tayna's finished product

Kody & Tayna

Mine & Abby's finished product!