Halloween

Halloween seems to sneak up on us each year since Abby's birthday is the day before. We had yet to even buy our pumpkins so when the kids got home from school we went searching for pumpkins. Apparently, that is no easy task on Halloween day. Safeway was out of pumpkins. Midtown market had a few but they looked small and terrible. Finally QFC had a bunch still out and they were only a $1 each - score! So we started carving our pumpkins and when Chad got home he helped out too. I was a mean mom and stuck Tristan's hand into the guts of the pumpkin. I was just trying to tease him but he started to cry and I felt terrible. After the pumpkins were out we ate dinner and got the kids dressed up. Chad went trick-or-treating with them while I stayed home for other trick-or-treaters. After that we took the kids to see great Grandma and finally onto Grandma's house where we got lots of candy and yummy popcorn balls.

Jamie and Abby were dressed up for costume day at school - Jamie wanted to be lawyer and Abby wanted to just dress-up fancy.  They chose to wear these things instead of their real costumes because they were more comfortable and because they aren't allowed to wear any capes or hoods or accessories to school.

You can see Tristan's little "sweet" tattoo that he got at Abby's birthday party.

Rapunzel

Jedi Knight

Dinosaur monster again this year (don't know what we'll do next year when this doesn't fit him anymore!)