Grace has firmly inherited my love of pumpkin carving and organized a group of friends over to carve right when October hit:
…and then she had the grand idea to carve pumpkins for a church activity one night last week as well, and when we were done we turned off the lights and decided on “awards” for each one as we admired their work.
These girls got mighty creative…love what they came up with.
Most of them worked in pairs and we had a kind of fun talk as they carved trying to get to know the newest move-in (there have been 27 new families who have moved into our ward in the last few months since there’s a new development going in near us…yowzas).
Loved them all but this one was particularly impressive:
Free-hand Darth Vader…yeah, good job Emma and Kennadie!
These girls were pretty proud of their creation too 🙂
The annual neighborhood Fall Festival arrived on the very most crazy weekend of the year I swear. But Claire figured out her “robber” outfit and deftly helped me get Lu super excited about Grace’s old M&M outfit we dusted off from the closet to wear just for that night until we could figure out her “American Girl Doll” outfit she’s dying to be for the real-deal day.
If you look real close you’ll notice she dressed up that little green M&M outfit with a little drawing of herself taped on along with her full name.
I mean, you never know when an M&M disguise will make you completely unrecognizable so you bette be sure to label yourself 🙂
Claire’s friends at the neighborhood party:
Check out this costume:
Are you kidding me? I’m not big into gore for Halloween but I couldn’t help but be impressed with that one!
We were at Goodwill the other day really quick between cheer and soccer carpools (after poor Lucy had reminded me every single day for a couple weeks that we needed to figure out her outfit) to try to round some things up and ran into my friend with her stroller and toddlers glued to her legs on the same kind of mission. And it made me think how crazy it is how Halloween evolves for mothers.
It somehow made me joyous and melancholy all at the same time.
How I miss these pumpkin carving/ Halloween creatures of mine who used to be little enough to all stand in a row and be together for at least five minutes on Halloween:
I miss them.
Even that belly-dancer throwing a giant tantrum up there.
SO much love for this post.
This brings back so many memories for me too! How I wish I had a collection of all those costumes through the years! I spent too much time hoping it would soon be over and not enough time really savoring the moments.
Thank you for those words of encouragement. Your last sentence touched my heart as a mother of 6 under 12.5. Thank you & God Bless you!
Did you make your "Boo to You" banner or buy it? If you bought it, do you recall where it's from?
I found it randomly at the home section of Nordstrom.