Halloween Week!

We had a week long Halloween celebration here in the Manning/Kline household. It all started the Sunday prior to the big event with pumpkin carving. Finn LOVED this! He had very specific requests for what designs he wanted on the pumpkins. See we got a pumpkin carving kit this year with a design book and Finn wanted ghosts and a spider on Dad and Mom's pumpkins respectively. Well the ghosts were fairly easy. However, the spider was the hardest design in the book. It asked us to cut out a very large very thin web with a spider in the middle of it. Joe and I worked at it for over 30 minutes only to have the whole thing break off on us leaving just a gaping whole where the design was supposed to be. So my pumpkin was subsequently dubbed the shot gun blast pumpkin.

Finn admiring his pumpkin.

Finn was a fireman for Halloween and was allowed to wear his costume to tots class on Monday for the Halloween party. This was a big hit. All the kids got to play in their super cute costumes. They also got to break a pumpkin pinata, decorate a cookie, and enjoy a sweet goodie bag.

Finn's good friend Matthew donned an awesome UPS uniform.

The tots class including the teacher, Miss Sheri.

Racing cars with Matthew at recess.

Finn taking his crack at the pinata. When he got home from school, he described this activity as "Mom there was candy and I hit it and hit it." It took me a minute to figure out what he was talking about.

Holding up his prize!

To add to the fun Gigi and Papa arrived on Friday to spend Halloween weekend with us. On Saturday we got the kids dressed up for the Agassiz Halloween party and off we all went. There was to be a hayride, cupcake decorating, face painting and a sing-along. However, by the time we arrived Finn had spiked a fever and was too sick to participate. Poor kid spent the rest of the weekend miserable with a 101-102 degree temperature, which unfortunately meant no trick-or-treating either. Oh well at least it happened this year when he was still scared by a lot of the costumes and hadn't really grasped the concept of trick-or-treating. And thankfully he had his grandparents here to give him lots of tlc. I know next year he'll be tearing up the neighborhood bagging tons of candy and his sisters will be old enough to tag along.

My little pumpkins!

We got great shots of Gigi and Papa with Lourdes, but none with Sabine. Thankfully they will be back in three weeks for Thanksgiving and we can get some then.