Halloween 2009

For Halloween we did our traditional carving of pumpkins, but as you can see, the boys only wanted to color them this year. We were able to plant pumpkins in our garden this year and were blessed with plenty to pick from. The boys had fun. As you can also see, they really got into their designs.

This is what Zayne did during the carving process and he was all smiles for the attention. However, he had no idea that the camera was on him, or he wouldn't have been smiling. Daddy is taking the pictures while Mommy is acting like she is going to get him. What great smiles.

The boys were great troopers for Halloween. We had a much busier day then we wanted, especially since the boys woke up with runny noses and coughs. But we made it. We visited both sets of grandparents and then ended up out trick or treating for an hour and a half. Longer then planned, but we got to see those who wanted to see us. Needless to say, we were all ready for bed that night and looked forward to the extra hour of sleep in the morning. Not that the kids know what that means. But we tried.

For Halloween Cyrus chose to be the Bumblebee Transformer. He has never seen the movie and has no idea what a transformer really is. But he really liked the costume and it was yellow. That was all that mattered to him.

Here is the Quentin designed/mommy pieced together costume. Quentin was playing his game SPORE and designed this creature (alien with lots of arms). He printed it out and told me that is what he wanted to be for Halloween. It took work and creativity, but he wore it and enjoyed it. I'm just glad the costume survived the whole holiday.

Front view of the costume. The arms had to be reattached a few times, but other then that, all went well.

Here is Zayne as a frog. He wasn't sure what was going on and didn't really want to be bundled up like this. But he was a great trooper.