It Wouldn't Be Halloween . . .

With our move at the beginning of the month, we didn't really do October 31 justice this year.

Since Halloween is Ben's favorite time of the year, I have felt a little guilty about this.

I was late getting up our decorations (but did finally find that box of all our best Halloween stuff that I thought we'd accidentally donated) and didn't give as much thought as usual to our costumes. I didn't even get out the cookie cutters to make pumpkin- or mummy-shaped cookies.

Still, it wouldn't be Halloween without carrying on with at least some of our traditions.

It wouldn't be Halloween without a visit to the pumpkin patch

 

(we went a few times,

 

although we missed the hayride this year),

 

carving pumpkins (which we did on Saturday!),

 

 

spooky decorations (our lights have a dimmer, which made them look really creepy with the cobwebs),

 

the library's spooky storytime (Ben and Jason won the mummy-making contest!),

 

Ben's Halloween party with his grandparents and cousins

 

(with Amanda and Rebecca helping to put the ghosts on top of the ghost pie),

 

and costume pictures on the front porch.

 

(As you can see, we had the Princess and the Frog!)

Of course it wouldn't be Halloween without trick-or-treating, either, which is on the agenda for tonight.

I guess I haven't completely neglected my responsibility to help the kids have a happy Halloween . . . and once their buckets are full of candy, they probably won't remember anything they might have missed :)