Pumpkins!

Left to right:

Back row: Nachite, Devon, Devlin, Brandon

Bottom Row: Madisen, Lexi, Clara, Dylan, Colton, Zacky, Nathan, Macy, Aidan

Pumpkin carving 2010

We had a full house this weekend for pumpkin carving. We carved about a dozen pumpkins and had close to 30 people over for food and fun. The big kids were more independent this year and did most of the carving themselves.

Pumpkin carving 2010

Click below for a link to pumpkin carving pictures

2010-10-30 pumpkin carving

More halloween pics

As always, Halloween was a blast this year. We trick or treated with lots of friends from the neighborhood, only about half of whom sat still long enough for a picture.



Clara getting comfy in the wagon.

Clara & Madisen (and a little bit of Brandon in the upper right corner)

Brandon, Dylan and Devon

From left to right:
Brandon (Unknown Reaper), Nachite (Michael Jackson), Colton (Baseball Player),
Devlin, Devon, Dylan (motocross racers),
Aidan (War Machine)

Halloween 2010

Clara as Tinkerbell

Brandon as the "Unkonwn" Reaper .... but without the mask for this pic :)

Devlin as Motocross Racer

Aidan as War Machine (from Iron Man)

blast from the past - Halloween 2000

Going through old pictures and found this one from Halloween 2000. These are some of my all-time favorite costumes.

Halloween 2009

Clara went as a pink pirate... complete with black eye left over from her birthday party the previous weekend.

Clara had a headband with her costume that we had to put on and/or rearrange on her head dozens of times before starting out for trick or treating... by we, i mean me and dad. We were having creative differences about the way to wear the headband :)

Brandon hanging out w/ friends from the neighborhood & Pop Pop.

Brandon as a zombie

Kids from the neighbhoorhood

Brandon, Nachite & Nathan doing the Thriller dance

Me and Cheryl as 80s girls :)

Devlin as Motox rider

Me and Clara

Pumpkin Carving

Here are the pics from Pumpkin Carving 2009!

Before

After

Halloween...a little out of order!

Halloween 2008

Aidan - Spiderman

Brandon - Grim Reaper

Clara - Fairy

Devlin - no costume ... chased girls/was chased by girls all night long

We trick or treated w/ the entire block; it was a blast. My friend from work (Chad & his wife Madison) brought their son Max over also. Max is a couple months older than Clara. He was a Shark.

Brandon .... scary!!!

Spiderman showing off his muscles

I'm pretty sure Devlin was "slinging" one of his new Halloween flying-toys in this picture.

It's all mine!!!!!

Pumpkin carving/Tina's birthday

We had our annual pumpkin carving event on October 18th. This year the event had grown to include most of the neighborhood: Devlin, Brandon, Aidan, Clara, Nathan, Macy, Zachy, Nachite, Sunshearray, Colton & Aaron. We carved almost a dozen pumpkins within a couple hours.

It was loads of fun, like always. The kids all picked much simpler designs this year - I think they remembered how long the pumpkins took in the prior years.

It was a fun filled night of pumpkin guts, lasagna, & multiple birthday cakes! YUM!