Happy Halloween??
On Saturday (2 days before Halloween), it started to snow. The last I had heard was that our area could get anywhere from 3-7 inches. Soccer was cancelled, the trunk-or-treat was cancelled, and on Sunday, we woke up to this...
Yep...OVER 18 INCHES OF SNOW!
Our poor little pumpkins and mum were barely visible. I was starting to consider breaking out the Christmas music.
My parents are out of town so I drove to their house to clean out their freezers, check on things, etc. (they haven't had power in 5 days now) and this is what their neighborhood looked like...
Total war zone! This is the house 2 doors down from them...Through it all, we were still able to salvage Halloween. Because of the power outages, many towns, including ours, decided to postpone Halloween from Monday to Saturday. Well, that wasn't going to fly with my kids or most of the others. So, we decided at the last minute to meet up at our friends, the Teeples, along with several other families, and went out anyway. Here's our crew:
(Grant as Winnie the Pooh, Addie as a little pig, Ethan as Batman)
We also had a playgroup Halloween party at the church which is always a fun tradition in our ward. The kids had to try out different costumes this time and went as a baker and Cinderella.
We waited until the twins were asleep to carve our pumpkin this year. I just couldn't handle the potential disaster that would surely be created by six little hands. Maybe next year I'll be more brave. Ethan had a blast digging the guts out and designing his scary pumpkin.
Here's the finished product:
We also had our annual playgroup trip to Ort Farms just before Halloween. I LOVE this trip! The kids get to go on a hay ride, pick their own pumpkin, feed the farm animals, play on the hay and have apples and cider. I love fall in New Jersey!!
Addie checks out the pumpkins.
Grant finds his favorite pumpkin in the field.
Sitting at the top of the hay pyramid!
This was an OCTOBER to remember!!
We also had a playgroup Halloween party at the church which is always a fun tradition in our ward. The kids had to try out different costumes this time and went as a baker and Cinderella.
We waited until the twins were asleep to carve our pumpkin this year. I just couldn't handle the potential disaster that would surely be created by six little hands. Maybe next year I'll be more brave. Ethan had a blast digging the guts out and designing his scary pumpkin.
Here's the finished product:
We also had our annual playgroup trip to Ort Farms just before Halloween. I LOVE this trip! The kids get to go on a hay ride, pick their own pumpkin, feed the farm animals, play on the hay and have apples and cider. I love fall in New Jersey!!
Addie checks out the pumpkins.
Grant finds his favorite pumpkin in the field.
Sitting at the top of the hay pyramid!This was an OCTOBER to remember!!
