I thought I would update with some halloween pictures. The kids had a great time this year. They really enjoyed it and seemed to get more involved with it this year than in years past. 
Luckily the kids were healthy on Halloween. All of us have been sick, but Ally, Tommy, and Matt all got well by Halloween night. I was still miserable (and still am) but I was still able to enjoy it with them. I managed to take them to about 10 houses before I thought I would collapse. We came home and Matt took them around the block. They came home with SO much candy!! They had a great time. Ally was an angel and Tommy was a turtle. They both loved dressing up.
The next night, Tommy was getting in his pjs for bed and he said, "turtle costume?" And I said, "no, it's not halloween anymore". and he said, "but it's dark outside!" I guess he figured since we kept saying, "we can't go trick or treating until it's dark out" on halloween, that meant we could go every night when it got dark. lol
Luckily the kids were healthy on Halloween. All of us have been sick, but Ally, Tommy, and Matt all got well by Halloween night. I was still miserable (and still am) but I was still able to enjoy it with them. I managed to take them to about 10 houses before I thought I would collapse. We came home and Matt took them around the block. They came home with SO much candy!! They had a great time. Ally was an angel and Tommy was a turtle. They both loved dressing up. The next night, Tommy was getting in his pjs for bed and he said, "turtle costume?" And I said, "no, it's not halloween anymore". and he said, "but it's dark outside!" I guess he figured since we kept saying, "we can't go trick or treating until it's dark out" on halloween, that meant we could go every night when it got dark. lol 
The night before Halloween, we carved pumpkins. Matt did all of the work while I watched and took pictures. The kids really loved that. We got a free toy in the mail from Matchbox, so Tommy spent a majority of his time playing with that. It's a haunted house that you put a Matchbox car in and watch it go from room to room. Both kids have had a lot of fun with that.
The big pumpkin is our family pumpkin. Matt took a design from The Nightmare Before Christmas and duplicated it. The ghostly pumpkin is Tommy's and the scary pumpkin is ally's. Ally designed her own pumpkin this year. Matt helped her cut it, but she drew it on a piece of paper and told Matt what she wa
nted it to look like.
nted it to look like. 
