Halloween 2012

With a great weather forecast, Halloween promised to be as fun as past years in our neighborhood.  As usual the patio heater was rolled to the grass between the houses on our block to keep us candy-giver-outers warm while the men took the kids door to door.  So much more fun than sitting alone in the house waiting for the doorbell to ring!  One man described our set-up as 'quintessential Americana' with the cozy, social set-up and white picket fences :)

Of course, before Halloween there is preparation...

Tracing (poking) the pattern on the pumpkin

Scott contemplating his free-hand carving

Success!

 After pumpkin carving, we took a break to fly Nora's kite at the park.

We then moved to an open field with no houses to block the wind...the kite was so high I was having trouble getting the people and the kite into the photo!

And the big day arrived...after daycare Nora turned into a butterfly and Ellis a turtle.

My favorite picture of all.

The kids from 4 houses on our block.

Nora and Finn aka Super Chicken...not excited at all

With Sophie

 Kerry, Paul and Ellie came over to join in the festivities on our block.  Ellie was the cutest little garden gnome ever!!!  Sorry, can't rotate the pic...

 

Once the sun went down, craziness ensued and a good time was had by all.  We had large groups of people come by all night, hundreds of kids, and went through over 11 lbs of candy.  We ran out again, like always.  I guess that's better than having a bunch left over!