Thriller!

Halloween was a little hectic this year! Byron was at the Phillies Championship Parade, I was nursing a wounded ankle and the kids were, well, their typical hyper selves... times twelve! Thankfully we had excellent weather once again and this year we had lots of visitors come to ToT with us... Grandmom, Pop, Uncle Adam, Aunt Janet, Uncle Jay, Aunt Jen and cousins Tyler and Baby Kylie. Oh, and at some point, Uncle Eric and Daddy stumbled in from the parade. And as mentioned in a later post, my camera was at the parade!

Aunt Janet and Mrs. Callan were kind enough to paint Ryan's face for the big night. We figured it was easier for him to see that way (a.k.a safer without the mask). Here is a picture of them sitting in front of their carving masterpieces, with the lone "never to be carved because the World Series got in the way" pumpkin in the back. The bottom pumpkin is Emma's. Ryan carved that also. The gaping holes on the sides are the ears, requested by Emma. Secretly tho, Ryan just got a little carving happy. Scary.

Posing with the lawn decor - we opted for the skeleton rather than the fly-infested, rotting pumpkins back by the tree. BLEEP BLEEP Squirrels!

Baby Kylie making her 1st Halloween appearance as Tinkerbell. A year earlier and she and Emma would have been twins!

And Tyler as Peter Pan!

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Here's the Gruesome Twosome posing with Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop and getting ready for Safe Trick-or-Treat. It's a program our health center has every year where they decorate the inside of the building and all of the Dr's offices, and the kids are invited in to ToT in a warm, safe place. They all do a great job - some even have haunted offices - and the kids look forward to it every year. I love that it's one more step towards getting my money's worth from their costumes!

He truly is a bag of bones!