Halloween festivities

I didn't get to do everything I wanted with the kiddos during October for Halloween. You know, I was kinda busy having a baby and all! :) But we did manage to paint some pumpkins, do some carving and lots of trick or treating! 

Mimi had brought the kiddos some mini pumpkins and so we painted them! Cohen picked yellow, Lyla blue and I picked red! We didn't plan it but we ended up having KU pumpkins! :) Just in time for the start of KU basketball! 

The kiddos LOVED the painting and of course, Cohen managed to get it everywhere! :) 

I love this picture because of the way Cohen is looking at Ly! He LOVES his big sister SO much!

Wednesday night we carved our pumpkins! We stuck to the traditional jack-o-lanterns! This is what Miss Stella did while we had lots of fun! :)

I carved the little one and Sean carved the big one! 

Thursday afternoon, after nap, I got the kiddos dressed up in their costumes and snapped a few very quick pictures of the kiddos. I had told them we were going trick or treating early in downtown Hays at all the businesses so they wanted nothing to do with pictures and everything to do with candy!

My "GOOD" witch!

Cohen was our little scarecrow!

This is how is little session started! :) It's not in focus but I love it because it depicts Cohen to a T!

Oh, his smile melts me! Love his wrinkle nose!

And Stella was hungry and wanted a boob more than she wanted her picture taken! 

But if you can't tell, she was our little Dorothy.

I really didn't have the plan to do a wizard of oz theme but my parents gave me some of my old costumes and Lyla found my old witch's hat and so that was easy! Then a client of mine was selling their son's scarecrow costume and I thought that was perfect for Cohen. And then since Lyla is so little I wanted something easy so I sewed the skirt and bow and Dorothy was born!

This was the best picture I could get of the kiddos before we went trick or treating. They were just way too excited! 

They both got TONS of candy and had some much fun. Cohen caught on super quick and would walk up and say ick eat and then then thank you! :) Love him! Next year Halloween will be even crazier with a 5 year old, 3 year old and 1 year old! Eek! :)

More Halloween tricks

The week before Halloween, the kiddos painted some pumpkins. Or colored them with crayons for Cohen.  Him and paint would not mix. Lyla likes to paint every ounce of whatever it is that she is painting so her pumpkin turned out black! (As did her pumpkin from preschool!)

 Cute halloween shirts and lots of hugs! :) Haha. This makes me laugh!

  The Monday before Halloween, we carved our pumpkins. We kept it to simple faces this year.  Lyla enjoyed getting all the guts out of the pumpkins with me while Daddy carved. And Cohen make ruckus all around the house! :) Ha!

 I love her! And for the record, she would have done all of this naked but I insisted she at least put on pants. She loves to be naked! (Random fact: Almost every night she takes off her pants and undies whenever she is sleeping).

 Cohen doing what he does best - pushing all the buttons on the dishwasher while Lyla and Daddy are working!

 The Tuesday before Halloween, Lyla had a fall party at school! They got to paint pumpkins, play pumpkin bowling and also a jack-o-lantern water game! She had so much fun! I got to come and help the class and enjoyed it so! I've waited a long time to be able to do this and love the fact that I get to stay home with my kiddos to do all of this and not miss out! Makes me super happy!

 Our finished pumpkins! Lyla picked out the littlest pumpkins for Piper! :)

Pumpkin Patch

 In October, we headed to the pumpkin with the kiddos and Sonya.  Lyla loved having Sonya there and I think Sonya enjoyed hanging out with us too!  I had shirts made for the kiddos and LOVED how they turned out! So cute!

This is by far the best family picture we've taken minus our professional family pics. It normally doesn't look like this! Ha!

 He enjoyed playing in the dirt!

 This year she rode the tram by herself. Made me kinda sad! :( She's getting to big!

 Off to get our pumpkins!

We had such a good time and a beautiful day to go! Later on, we went and ate with Sonya and Nana in Russell!! Love family time!