Halloween Week

We had a successful Halloween week.  It started Tuesday night with some pumpkin carving.  This was actually supposed to be our Monday night FHE activity, but I was too dang tired to do it then.  Good thing the kids are little and don't know better.
I gutted and carved Dexter's and mine.  I think Kyle was making sure Ellie wasn't getting into things. He carved his after the kids' went to bed.

He enjoyed telling me what shapes to carve, and how it was done

I get the dirty job of scoopin' the guts

I forgot to get an after of them all lit up.  We used them as decoration (with some dry ice fog) for our Trunk or Treat set up.
The Trunk or Treat was great.  Lots of cars and lots of kids.

Our family ensemble:
Dad - Train engineer
Mom - Train Robber
Dexter - Deputy Sherriff
Ellie - Train Passenger

I managed to flip out her hair.  Wasn't easy curling a toddler's hair.

A look at her whole outfit since the train hid it.

I like our costumes this year.  It was amazingly easy.  We only had to buy the overalls and bandannas.  Oh, and I guess the paint for the train.  That was fun to make, and Ellie sat in it the whole time, making it easy to go around. We already joke of what next year is.  Although Dexter will be old enough to decide his own.  So we'll just work around that.

Then there was Halloween, and Dexter stayed awake! Dexter was excited to go, and Ellie was jealous he got dressed up.  So she got dressed up, to help me pass out our goodies.

Here's the other random pictures and thoughts from the week.

I have a huge list of projects that I'd like to get done.  I realized the other day, that the reason I don't work on them is because I feel my inadequacy in it.  That it won't be perfect, which is how I want it to be.  So with the mindset that it's okay if it's not perfect, I'm going to tackle the projects.  This was my first one on the list...

Before: Ikea chair, fabric, batting

After: Upholstered chair

Now this camera angle makes it look...awesome!  However it's not, and I'm not just saying that.  Kyle even said...it's "nice" when he got home.  But I finished it, and it doesn't look bad so it's still a great job for me.

The kids have a costume box of just stuff Kyle and I have put in there.  One of the items is from my time as a construction intern, my hard hat.  The kids love to play with it, but especially love for me to wear it.  Then they put on their play one and think it's so fun to match with mom.

Mom and Ellie matching time

Dexter is quite a creative little guy.  Here he laid down some blankets for us and said lets have a picnic...eating pears! I think he actually asked for candy, but I convinced him pears are cooler picnic foods.

Tackle mom

 Sometimes you get the need to organize your pantry.  After all day, here's the outcome...

Ahhh...feels so nice.

 Yesterday a cold front blew in.  The forecast even states...snow!  I don't think it'll happen, but I don't like that as even an option.

Snuggles and slippers

 People at church tell me she is so cute (which I don't deny) and then they usually comment on how cute this or that is.  Eighty plus percent of those items are from Nub Nub.  Here Ellie is rocking her new boots from grandma.  They fit her just in time for fall.

She is always so stinkin' cute!

Ellie and Dexter have many moments of fighting/screaming, but then they have amazing cute moments.  I managed to capture the last little bit of one of them: