Happy Haunting

 These outfits were hilarious to me.  I think what made it so cute was seeing both of them as little gnomes.  At first they weren't quite sure about being a gnome for Halloween.  They wanted to be witches instead.  After we went to Frightmares one night at Lagoon where they went through a spook house that had a little gnome village they were excited to be a gnome. 

 They had so many people comment on their cute costumes.  Brilynn and Maycie were getting tired of all the comments.  Lots of times they would have to wait at the door while the person who opened the door called to the rest of their family/friends to come see the gnomes.  The funny thing was one time somebody called them a Smurf.  Payge said, " I not a MURF...I a GNOME."   The next house she went to I heard the lady say, "Oh my goodness...Look at you cute little elfs."  I saw Payge quickly put her hand on her hip and while shaking her hips said, "I not an EWF...I a GNOME." 

 Brilynn decided to go out on a limb this year and insttead of being a witch she was a twilight fairy

 And Maycie was sticking with her tradition...a witch!

The girls kept going and going.  Finally at 8:30 I told them that it was getting to late and we needed to stop.  I was able to bribe them by taking them to get dinner instead of more candy. 

Haunted House

 This was Brilynn's haunted house that she made at school this year.  They cut the house out of paper and then I went and helped spray paint all the houses.  The next day they got to decorate them.  It was a fun project for them and I was pretty impressed with how cute they looked.

Class Parties

 I was able to help at both of the girls parties this year since Maycie's was in the morning and Brilynn's was in the afternoon.  I enjoy watching the girls at school and seeing who their friends are and how they interact with them.  They played halloween games....

 decorated cookies...

 and had witches brew ( that was my station and I didn't get any pictures)

 For Brilynn's class I was in charge of the game.  We did 4 different minute to win it halloween games. 

 They also painted pumpkins

 and made spider cupcakes

At first the girls were upset that they had to go to school on Halloween.  I think they ended up having a much better time than they thought they would.

Carving Pumpkins.

 For some reason John and I were not in the mood to carve pumpkins.  It was something that I really had been putting off and wasn't really excited about.  Maycie was the most excited and did the most work though.  She loved it.  John even became very focused on his pumpkin

 I was not so thrilled when I cut the top off my pumpkin.  Instead of having nice bright orange guts in mine...it was full of dark brown guts.  Absolutely disgusting.  I was ready to quit right then. 

 Maycie had no fear and volunteered to clean out my pumpkin. 

 Even Brilynn thought it was completely gross!

 Preslee and Payge spent most of their time poking the pumpkins.  They said they were putting freckles on them. 

 Brilynn was very helpful with the twins pumpkins.  She made them a cute little Jack-O-Lantern

 I think Maycie assisted everyone on their pumpkins.  She was a die hard!!!

J & J

 Since our pumpkins that we got from Black Island Farm were a little small we decided to hit J&J's pumpkin hayride as well

 Once again Preslee insisted on a small pumpkin

 There were not very many pumpking left in the field so we had to search hard and walk a long distance to find them. 

 Good thing everyone was able to find their perfect pumpkin!!!