Pumpkin time!

Finally in the past week we have started to get in the Halloween spirit. Maggie made me get out the Halloween decorations and we did the first of many I'm sure, Halloween crafts. Daniel was over the other day and they made these masks. As you can see, the coloring styles are just slightly different! : )

Then yesterday we had our neighborhood Halloween party. We are usually the ones to host and we usually do it on Halloween night, but since we will be in sunny Florida then, our kind neighbors across the street stepped up to the plate and took on the challenge. I told the girls that I wasn't really doing costumes this year since we weren't going to be here for trick-or-treating and so they could choose to be anything out of the dress up box downstairs. Maya chose to be Tinkerbell, Maggie chose to wear her Belle costume from last year.

These are a bunch of pictures from the party.

Our new neighbor, Olivia. She's 6 months old and she REALLY enjoyed that pretzel!!!

Here are some of the kids doing a craft...making door hangers.

This is Olivia's big sister, Emma. She's 2 1/2 and also really enjoyed my pretzels!

Maggie's completed door hanger!!!

Here's the hostess, Mary, and Patrick the lion.

These are our new neighbors, Davin and Kate...i.e. Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer.

Lucas was soooooo cute!

The kids played pin the nose on the pumpkin. Maggie got it right on the "nose"!!!

Maggie and a couple of the girls played this ring toss game for about an hour!!!!

This afternoon we headed out to the pumpkin patch. We'd been to this one a couple times before. It was really busy today as the sun was out and it wasn't absolutely freezing! Here the girls are posing in front of a GIANT spider!!!

There were lots of animals to pet too. Maya thought the cow was soft.

Look at those cute sisters!

Driving a big red tractor.

The girlie tractor.

Now that's a BIG pumpkin!

Maggie was actually being photogenic! A rare occasion.

Maya, however, was not!

They crawled around in a hay barn for a while.

When we got our pumpkins home Maggie wanted to carve them right away. But, she wasn't really thrilled about touching the pumpkin guts. Even Bella helped...helped herself to a few bites of pumpkin that is. : )

Maya and her pumpkin!

Now, hopefully they last a while!