Halloween

This Halloween I failed a tradition. It was a tradition that I started about 4 years ago and have done it every year since. I'm so sad that I didn't carry it on, but we will definately pick it up again next year. I usually purchase a medium size pumpkin and make "Dinner in a Pumpkin". As pictured below. We got Krispy Kreme's and hot chocolate for after trick or treating though. That's gotta make up for something. This year Redden chose to be a punk skateboarder. We went to party city to give the kids some ideas of things they could be. Redden found the "punk skateboarder" and I told him I could make one cooler and cost less than if we bought it. It came with a mohawk wig and saggy shorts and boxers to hang out the top basically. I told him I would let him have an honest to goodness real mohawk for Halloween if he'd let me cut it off the day after Halloween. (Anyone see my alterior motives here?) After school we shaved Redden's head into a mohawk, sprayed his hair, painted on his owies, dressed him up and off he went. He was definately the coolest around. It was so fun to walk around the neighborhood having adults, high schoolers, and all the kids from school yelling "Awesome hair Redden". Even passer-bys that we didn't know were commenting on his hair. I was very glad that he felt cool. Last year Austin was the one getting all the comments feeling special. This year it was definately Redden's turn. Austin picked out your plain old boring silky jumpsuit of jango fett from star wars. He looked very cute in it and check out his nose pressed up against the plastic. The kids were awesome. We wrapped up Jessi in the jogger stroller and away we went. The boys were troopers we made it all the way to the end of our neighborhood. We ended at my friend Megans house and finished watching the trail blazers win by 1 point. They drove us home and we slept like babies. The weather was enjoyable and amazing that it cleared up just for Halloween.