Costumes

So here's the kids' outfits. Indiana was sumo wrestler. I took advantage of the last year I'll be able to pick out her costume. I forgot about her loin cloth so we took the batman cape and turned it into one. Asher is Dr. Octopus from the Spiderman comic. Yes, he chose that himself. Although, we had 4 different activities for the kids to dress up in (school, church, apartment complex and halloween) so by the last one he was sick of his costume and ended up being a bat.

This is a Dr. Octopus figurine in case you didn't know what he looked like.

Here's asher with his friend, Jude. They pretty much always dress up as something when they get together.
For Beren's Ironman, bart insisted we get an LED light for the arc reactor on his chest. I was just going to paint it blue but it was pretty cool with the light even though you can't really get the full affect from the picture.

I cut out the cardboard for the armour and bart made the helmet and painted it. (I had to post this other pic so you could see how great he did on the helmet.)

Bart was a monk and I was his nun. And yes, he did really shave the top of his head and the sides to make it legit. He's always looking for a way to shave all his hair off for Halloween...and no he didn't leave it like that, although our friends at our fondue party wanted him to wear it like that to church.

These are our friends that made it to the Fondue party. They had some pretty sweet costumes! My brother, Jared, is in the upper right corner and I didn't recognize him when he came in. I thought I had invited someone that I didn't know their husband...and I didn't think he remembered to dress up ;) I also really liked Juno and Paulie. I asked her how she come up with it and she said there wasn't much else to be when you're due in a few weeks.

Pumpkins

We went to Fall City Farm's pumpkin patch this year. The kids had a great time running around the field and bart loved the fact that he actually picked the pumpkin off its vine since most of the time that's already been done.

The boys chose this little pumpkin for Indiana. She seemed to like it, though.

It seemed Beren chose every pumpkin to be his for a few seconds and then moved on to another.

Not sure why Asher was sad. (He is dressed up like a bat and no it wasn't b/c we were hitting the pumpkin patch...he's dressed up most days still as something.)


This was the pumpkin Bart picked out. It was the densest pumpkin I've ever come across it weighed 45 lbs! I almost put it back in the patch b/c I'm so cheap but I thought I'd support our local farmers and pay the hefty price. This is supposed to be Jack Skellington from the Nightmare before Christmas.This was Asher's pumpkin (bart helped him pick b/c I wouldn't let bart get two...that's where I draw the line at how much we'll spend) Asher drew a picture and this was bart's interpretation of it.

I helped beren with his but I didn't get it a picture of it. He drew his triangle nose a little too close to the "bat" mouth so after it was done being cut the "upper lip" broke off. I really should have taken a picture b/c it looked like the pumpkin had cleft palate and was pretty disgusting. His got moldy before I got around to taking the photos.