Trick or Treat!

This year, it was just the kids and me.  Joe has a huge game this weekend and Halloween fell on the night he has his long meeting.  The last three years, it's worked out well for us trick-or-treaters having Daddy around.  We missed him! 

This was my bunch this year:

Anne decided not to do a princess costume this year.  She is deviating from her 7 year trend and going for something more traditional - a witch.  There were many she  could choose from and she chose a rather stylish costume, I thought.  She was far from spooky - which I liked.

Tommy and the boys are now into Chuggington Trains.  He wanted to be Wilson.  Not many people out there know what Chuggington is, but they know Thomas the Tank Engine.

Patrick loves alligators, however a lot of people thought he was a dinosaur, a dragon or a crocodile. 

Eddie didn't mind being a hippo, a costume that Patrick wore last year.  People really like this costume.  Following these photos was a animal face-off between hippo and alligator.  Each got tired of fighting each other and decided to eat the cute pig.  Just joking.

Bernadette ended up being a pig since it is the only costume I have she fit into.  I thought the best part of this costume was the tail...I didn't quite capture it very well in any shots that I took.  This is probably the first Halloween she had a clue what was going on.  She really surprised me at how quickly she got the hang of it.  She wasn't shy about knocking on strangers' doors and taking their candy.  She got mad at me if I tried to slow her down in any way.  She had a lot of energy for one who hardly had a nap that day.

My kiddos were so excited to go trick-or-treating.  I like to go when it's dark but we went right before it turned dark, around 6:30 pm.  We covered about three blocks, not even, and they were tired.  They were asking me to go home already.  Their bags weren't even filled all the way and their bags were getting too heavy for them!  I had more energy than they did!  I was following five kids around in the dark by myself.  We headed home.

We carved our pumpkins the night before, right after the Redskin's game. 

I love pumpkin carving.  I'm realizing I enjoy doing it more and more every year.  Thank God Joe was around to help carve this year because I can get a little crazy with perfection.  There were so many cool pumpkins out there.  There is more stuff to try next year.

Anne really enjoys doing them too.  She carved her own pumpkin with no help at all.  Very focused young lady.

Patrick decided to carve an alligator on his.  He had such a cute little pumpkin.

Eddie couldn't get passed the scooping of the goop.  Tommy ended up doing an alligator as well.

We were able to get all pumpkins carved before bedtime!

These were the pumpkins on Halloween night.

My pumpkin on the left (I like friendly faces) and Eddie's on the right.

Anne's pumpkin on the left, Tommy's in the middle and Patrick's on the right.

My little piggy wiggy enjoying her candy after trick-or-treating.  I think I ate about 10 pieces of candy during the day.  Yikes!! 

Hope everyone had a great Halloween...