Halloween Fun

We had a great Halloween. The s looked really cute and had lots of fun at the school parade, carving pumpkins and going trick-or-treating. We kept up with Craven family tradition by sharing a big pot of chili, warm bread sticks, donuts and root beer with our neighbors and friends. Enjoy the pictures.

School Parade

Susanna wasn't feeling well so Burke stayed home and I took Jennah to the school. We almost missed the parade but luckily I found a spot to park and we jumped in right at the end. It worked out great because it was cold.

Jennah had to hang on to that hat or it would blow off her little head.

After the parade they have dancing in the gymnasium. Jennah's friend Annalisa was a witch too.

At school on Friday they have orange day. Meredith, the mom of one of Jennah's school friends, made the s matching skirts and we got them the cute shirts and socks to match. Mrs. Henderson thought the s looked so cute she took them with her to the office when she got the milk so everyone could see them. Jennah felt very special. Thanks Meredith.

Jennah was also very excited to bring home her "Fall Picture." She has been talking about it for weeks while it hung on the wall in her classroom. As you can see she drew two spiders sitting on top of pumpkins, a tree with leaves falling from it, a scarecrow and a "scary pumpkin" .

A Pumpkin Miracle
We planned on picking pumpkins with Kathleen when she was visiting but we had to much rain. I promised Jennah we would get pumpkins and carve them before Halloween. I completely forgot until Thursday afternoon when Jennah reminded me that the next day was Halloween and we had not carved scary pumpkins. Liddy was hungry so we could not stop at the store. Jennah called Burke and asked him to pick up one for each of them. Burke got home rather later then I expected and announced he had the last carving pumpkin in the town of Gardner. He had to go to several stores to find it. The little pumpkin is a "pie pumpkin" and was really hard to carve. If you look close you will notice that Jennah's miracle pumpkin is a little on the soft side:)

Happy Halloween

Susanna got a head start on the candy

It was a special treat for both the s to get "real" makeup.

The tradition continues. All of our s have been a little Elephant on their first Halloween.

Oh isn't she so cute!!

Her costume was especially appropriate this year with the election. Who knew it would be so popular. Just remember that I found mine first!

And yes we are voting republican.