BOO!

There was a lot of Halloween excitement in our house this year!  With Nolan now 3 1/2 years old he is really into the costumes, decorations, Halloween T.V. shows, and Halloween events over the past couple of weeks.  Quinn sees Nolan's excitement and tags along :)

 Nolan has been talking about pumpkins and Halloween at school for two weeks.  They have visited the school's pumpkin patch, eaten pumpkin bread, and carved pumpkins.

 He had his costume parade this past week which Eric was able to attend.  Our shy Nolan walked into the big room of parents, saw Eric and froze.  His teacher had to coax him to continue walking by telling him to "walk towards the candy."

He came home from school with these scary green teeth and wore them for a solid 24 hours.

 We waited until the last second (night before) to carve our own pumpkins this year.  Nolan really gets into pulling all of the "icky stuff" out of his pumpkin and helping to choose what it's face will look like.

 Quinn, on the other hand, was less than impressed with this tradition and wasn't interested in touching it or contributing to the process.

 Still hesitant.

 Completely disgusted.

 She finally touched it but pulled her hand back and shivered.

 Our neat, meticulous Nolan getting dirty with his pumpkin.

 Quinn finally gave it a whirl and stuck her hand in once it was cleaned out.

 The kids with their final products :)

Powell held Trick or Treating on Halloween.  We have had gorgeous weather this fall but it never fails to rain around here on Halloween.  The kids didn't seem to mind too much but it was really cold and wet.  Quinn hit up the houses on our street and I took Nolan to cover one more street before he was ready to come home.  We risked illness to get one picture of them without coats covering their costumes.  Our black cat and dinosaur.

 Ready to go!

 Couldn't wait to get out and trick or treat!

 Off they go.

 Black cat needed to stop every 5 feet to check her candy bag.

 Don't be fooled by the previous pictures, this is how Nolan looked 90% of the night (a headless dinosaur).  He refused to keep his dinosaur head on.

I'm not a huge fan of Halloween but the kids really enjoyed it this year and I am finding myself enjoying it more because of them.  Eric even bought a plastic skeleton and hung it in one of our front trees with a  spotlight shining on it and I didn't complain because Nolan named him "Denzel" and loved him :)