Halloween fun!

For Halloween this year we just had a small trick-or-treating party! Several of our friends joined us and we made the circuit of our neighboorhood together. It was great fun, and I can't wait to do it again next year!

Katie went as a 50's girl.

Reese went as a green & blue spotted monster.

Both of my girls seemed to have a great time getting ready to leave to go trick-or-treating with all of their friends.

Serena brought Avery and Aiden over to play with us that night. Avery made a beautiful Snow White...

and Aiden was a FABULOUS little dwarf!

Miss Emma Bear was a great pirate, too!

Katie, Maddie and Brooke all posed for a picture in front of some of our neighbors' yard decorations.

Reese loved trick or treating this year!

The kids couldn't get to the doors of the houses fast enough!

Brook and Maddie were acting crazy!

Reese found a new way to carry her bucket.

Maddie had a ball pretending to be "in the chalk lines".

The rest of the kids got a picture with the neighbors' setup.

This is a picture of all our munchkins gathered in my living room.

We had such a good time hanging out with everyone! Halloween is always more fun when you can share it with good friends!

Halloween with the Meltons!

Just wanted to post some photos of our Halloween fun! Both girls decided upon an Asian theme, so they were adorable! The professional pictures below were taken by Images by Gayle here in Searcy. She is amazing! We go every year on Halloween to have the kids pictures taken in their costumes. I think the thing that stunned me the most was how grown up Katie looked. WOW. Time flies!




We also got a couple of cute photos with the Melton kids. We trick-or-treated with their family and had such a great time! After we got home, Katie took all of the candy (minus the ones I picked out for myself) and handed it all back out to the kids who were trick-or-treating later than us. I loved that! No Halloween candy to throw away in June!

NEWS FLASH!!! The Pumpkin Monster attacked a Joy, AR, home today... Details to follow...

We all gathered out at Nana's house to celebrate Alyssa's 19th birthday. I thought it would be fun to carve pumpkins while we had all of the kids in one place. Boy was I right! The evening started out calm and cool. We were all carving our pumpkins and having a great time.

Reese was too busy picking her nose to be much interested in the pumpkin carving. She didn't like the feel of the pumpkin innards on her hands, anyway.


Jason and Nathan got started on Nate's pumpkin right away. Nathan was ready!


Alyssa and Katie worked together to get Katie's pumpkin ready for carving. Look at that evil little look on Alyssa's face... You can tell that trouble is a brewing in that mind of hers!


There's even a picture of ME! You can tell that Allison, who isn't in any of the pictures, had the camera.


I think Katie's favorite part of the pumpkin carving was playing in the pumpkin guts!

At least they look cute digging in that orange stuff!

Jason is SERIOUS about this pumpkin carving thing.

Now the digging begins... That should be Nathan's favorite part. He's our little dirt bug!

Caleb is elbow deep in his pumpkin, too!

The fun really began when Matt, Alyssa's boyfriend, decided it would be funny to hit Nana with a handful of pumpkin. All kinds of chaos broke out when the boys got into the action. The rest of us just had to join in, too!

You can see Matt in the background getting ready to flog Nana with a big wad of pumpkin. Alyssa is just "innocently" sitting on the sidelines...

I won't go into detail, but I will say, it got messy!









As you can see, Nana's kitchen was pretty much trashed. We all took a turn cleaning up, and it was cleaner than ever before long. The floor was extremely slippery. It's a wonder Matt didn't split his pants!






All of our Jack-O-Lanterns came out great. I don't have photos of Katie's, Alyssa's or Nathan's pumpkin yet, but will post them as soon as I get them!What a fun night!