The Magical Week before Halloween......

Our magical Halloween week began on Monday when we (ahem..KARL) carved pumpkins after getting a jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphys...a tradition I am sure that will continue...cutest pizza ever dont you think??? The girls thought it was the coolest thing ever!!

The final masterpieces ended up looking something like this....Karlee's is on the left with many different hearts and faces carved into the entire pumpkin...Emilee's (suprisingly pleasant considering her past carving experience), mine (that Karl carved because I was completely obsessed with finishing the Twilight series fourth book and could not take time to even carve my own pumpkin), Rylee's "teensy tiny pumpkin that is little...like she is", and Natalee's ummm, polar bear...whose ear got poked off shortly after carving and had to be fixed emergently.....tears averted. :)
Lucky for us not one girl is squeamish when it comes to gutting pumpkins....

I found this cute little idea to make witches brooms for goody bags and had the bright idea to make 52 of them for the girls' classes....thank you again to Karlo for helping me put together all 52 goody bags at 11 o'clock Wednesday night :)

Emilee was Irkle from "Family Matters" and stayed in character pretty much the whole night....except for the brief moment when we drove past a little boy on the sidewalk that she apparently knew because she ripped off her glasses and ducked down in her seat faster than I have ever seen her move.....
Natalee was a bunny...deciding to wear the costume that I bought her last year that she threw a fit about and REFUSED to wear...but apparently this year it was PERFECT....and she really was the cutest bunny I have ever seen....
Karlee originally wanted to be a toilet for Halloween....and after aloooooooot of talking decided that maybe she would just be toilet paper......and thankfully decided on a kitty costume that we had already from previous sisters.....and she made a much cuter kitty than a toilet.....THANK GOODNESS!! She was also the child I constantly had to remind to NOT say "stinky feet, smell my feet, give me something good to eat...if you dont i wont care...i'll pull down your underwear!!!
Rylee was a beautiful Sleeping Beauty who threw a fit because her hair did not look like the Sleeping Beauty pendant on her costume but thankfully she got over that pretty quickly after I put sparkly makeup all over her face and she got to wear lipstick...:)
Best Halloween costume picture I have ever gotten of my girls.....notice how Emilee is still "in character"......
Quick drive out to Gresham to meet up with Grandma and Grandpa and two of the cutest butterflies I have ever seen at the Roadhouse...(YUMMY)....and notice Ems is still "in character"...............
Back to St. Helens to meet up with an Irkle twin (Emilee's best buddy Bri), batman, and a very very cute (and nice I was told) spider Ems STILL "in character"....
Natalee got to see one of her best buds Teagan at "grandma Jan's"..... who loves Halloween more than anyone else I know...my kids LOVE her house all decorated and could hardly wait to trick or treat there.....

see, its pretty neat huh??? Its taken a few years for them to actually not freak out about going up to her porch but I think they were over it for the big bowl of candy waiting at the other side :)

I'm thinking that this next house was part of the reason I was up with Rylee all.night.long. because of her nightmares about.......spiders.

and one last shot of the two Irkles....STILL in character...LOL...

It was truly a magical Halloween week with three ballet parties to dress up for, FOUR class parties, and ending with lots and lots and lots of candy that seriously should last us until next Halloween!! We are now snuggled up on the couch watching the movie Twitches on Disney...my favorite way to end the night. Hope yours was just as magical! :)