Happy Halloween!

Halloween is over! I really enjoy this holiday but it certainly wore me out this year. There is something about a bunch of candy and costumes that bring out so much drama! We experienced several tantrums and lots of whining, but we also had a great day.

Here we were last night carving a pumpkin. This event went by with little drama. Whew!

And today we had our friends Mindy, Meredith and Allie over for a little Halloween "party". The kids had fun eating lunch together, decorating pumpkin cookies and playing outside.
Our littlest pumpkin enjoyed the day too...
Here is Levi and Meredith in their costumes. Could they be any cuter?!

It was a quiet afternoon while all 3 boys took a nap. It took A LOT of persuasion and some tears to get Levi to take one but he finally did. Then it was time to put on the costumes. The boys were Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Slinky Dog from Toy Story. Levi wanted Graham to be slinky dog or Mr. Potato Head and since I knew we had a dog costume I agreed to the slinky dog idea. However, when we got it out the boys were quick to point out that it wasn't slinky dog. While Michael wanted to wrap some duck tape around his stomach to make him look like Slinky, I vetoed the idea because I thought he would look like a dog with duck tape wrapped around him.

Anyway, the boys were excited about their costumes until we had to put them on! Ben hated his holster, hat and boots. And come to think of it, the shirt required some persuasion as well. Basically he only liked his jeans. And Levi had to be convinced that not everyone would be looking at him. After a few tears we were all dressed and ready to head to our neighbor's house for a little get-together.

Here's me and "Slinky"...
And Woody...
Here's Levi (while still not convinced that everyone wouldn't be looking at just him!) with his buddy Spiderman...
Buzz, Woody, Spiderman, Mr. Incredible & a firefighter all engaged in some "rough play". We told them that they could only pretend to fight. The joy of boys!
We had a great time trick-or-treating with some buddies and handing out candy at our house. The boys actually got along pretty well and had a great night.
And I'm pretty sure we'll have some tantrums in the morning when we don't let the boys have skittles & chocolate for breakfast.

Happy Halloween!