Halloween Spirit

The girls have been wearing Halloween inspired nailpolish on their toes this week.  They have thought it was so cool to have a pattern on their toes.  We tried it on their fingers but they put their fingers in their mouths too often and the polish didn't last long on most fingers.

I will be back soon with costume and trick-or-treat pictures.

Pumpkin Carving

The kids and I carved a couple pumpkins this weekend.  I think Boothe has found her calling in life...a gooey pumpkin gut extractor.  Couldn't get enough of the slimy stuff between her fingers and wanted to do it all herself.  Magnolia on the other hand wouldn't touch it.  Once was enough then she washed her hands and didn't want to get her hands dirty anymore.  She enjoyed the design part but not the messy part.

After they were done, we carried them upstaris and put glow sticks inside instead of candles and the girls have used them as their nightlight for the last couple nights.  Guess which one Magnolia designed and which one Boothe did.

Halloween Cookies

Twice a year we decorate cookies; at Halloween and at Christmas.  Not sure why those 2 holidays make us feel like eating cookies with frosting and sprinkles, but that's just the life that we live.  I made some whole wheat sugar cookies that were very good but not too sweet.  Adding the sugary frosting and sprinkles makes them perfect.  Orange frosting, sprinkles and candy corn = happy kids and delicious cookies.

 The girls placed their candy corns upright and called them birthday candles.

 Mom's creation:

 Dad's self portrait...but I think he is being a little bit generous with his hair line...

 I can remember when it was more likely to see Dan holding a beer bottle like this, now this is as crazy as we get!

In the past we have baked a couple dozen cookies, decorated them all at once and then not ended up eating all of them.  This year I baked the cookies and we each decorated and ate 1 per day for a couple days.  Everything is fresher this way and spreads the fun out all weekend!