Happy Halloween!!!

Ok...so I love halloween. It's not my favorite holiday but I do enjoy it. we always have jacob and grace over for halloween so we can do fun stuff like carve pumpkins, play video games until 6am (sorry dawn), and fill them up with sugar and send them home. but this time we really couldn't think of ONE good solid thing to do with them. until about 2:30 when i remembered that our church was doing trunk or treat. so i called paul and said "how 'bout it?" and remembered i had some good hippy stuff grace could wear and jacob wanted to be an m&m, which i thought was a stellar idea. then he said teenage mutant ninja turtle-again i loved the idea. but he finally settled on being a ninja. we had some black clothes and mask and then him and paul made cardboard/tin foil swords. all in all our costumes cost $0. i was a geisha girl, tatum was an octopus and paul was her ocean this time. it took some coaxing. he did NOT want to be a part of the dressing up. but he did. he said it was a big hit. told him so. anyhow...here are some pics.
Here we are..dogs and all. cookie was a snow princess of sorts:

here is grace in front of a funkytown trunk at the trunk-or-treat. they got a picture with grace and she was quite honored:

jacob was a really good ninja. he's taking chinese so instead of saying "thank you" he said it in chinese. I can't spell it though.
i know, i could fix the red eyes but they made the picture so much better so i left them:

then we came home and carved pumpkins.

which required serious concentration:

and some collaboration:

in the end they turned out so cute. bet you'll never guess whose is whose. we really did carve them on halloween. i think our camera timer is still set for eastern time zone though. oops. i guess it's not as bad as taking all of dan's wedding pictures on 7/7/7 with the date set to 6/15/06. ?? what the heck?? how did i screw that up so bad. anyway-tangent sorry.



and then the kids sorted their loot while we watched a movie starting at midnight. yes-this is what they love about aunt cheri and uncle paul's house.

jacob nailed it on the head when he said "man we made out like BANDITS!!" he's not lieing! have you ever seen so much candy from one night of trunk-or-treating?