Hallelujah - FINALLY at Halloween!!!

Dan and I arrived home early Sunday morning - after our trip to St. Charles - to spend Halloween with our three little guys! Our first task was to carve our pumpkins! This by far, was the best year for this as I had 3 big helpers and of course, Dan!!!

Luke was LOVING the pumpkin guts!!!
His little hand kept going into the pumpkin and pulling out more and more "goo!"
As you can see here, Nick was not as enthused about it!
My job is ALWAYS cleaning the pumpkins in preparation for Dan and his great carving skills! I just try to think about the pumpkin guts as some sort of fancy facial for my hands - so I was totally fine dipping my hands in the pumpkins and holding all these seeds!!!
Jack was quite the carver and so precise!
Before we knew it, it was time for the boys to get in their costumes! Luke chose Mario - complete with a mustache - that he ACTUALLY wore!
Nick wanted to be a ninja - not sure that he really even knew what a ninja was, but I think he was sold on the sword!!!
You wouldn't know it, but this is Jack, as a werewolf! This was his first "scary" costume - one in which we had to prep Luke for before Jack wore the mask!
Every year my mom and dad always come over to hang with us on Halloween - this year was no different. The only difference was the fact that usually Dan and Nana take the kids around the neighborhood, while Papa and I hand out candy, but since Nana was a bit nervous to go walking around in the dark with her still healing leg, she opted to hang at home with me and hand out candy while Papa walked with Dan and the boys! Here are me and Nana!
Dan, Papa and the boys walked with our neighbors who have 4 kids - so there were 7 kids in the bunch - what a colorful group!
The kids weren't the only ones dressed up! Check out Papa chilling with Luke's mustache!
Luckily it wasn't too cold again this year and we all got to hang outside to greet the kids trick or treating!
I was messing around with the camera when I took this picture of Dan so it isn't too good, but he was cracking me up - sitting by our big cauldron of candy!

After a long fun night, it was time to head into the house and relax...and stare at my wonderful "fall wall!"
Happy BELATED Halloween!!!