This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween

Before I get into the Halloween nonsense, let's start on a happy, peaceful note.  UEA.  How I love UEA.  We spent it this year up at my parents cabin.  It was gorgeous, relaxing and so

 much fun.  These two little sillies dubbed themselves to being the "Squirrel Girls" since they spent most of the trip feeding Daisy (the squirrel)

 

 We went on long walks....

 And jumped on the tramp in the middle of the forest.. Nothing is better than that!

 Then it was back home to jump in some more leaves.....

 This is Kate dancing to the song "Thriller."  Yes, she put her pants on by herself after going potty.  Without my help this is usually how they end up.

 Here's our cute little pumpkin Rach. 

 Now onto Halloween.....Here's the thing........  I actually LOVE Halloween.  I think it is such a fun holiday (although getting costumes ready always stresses me out), and what a way to get tons of candy.  One of my many weaknesses.  But let me just paint you a little picture of how the past 5 days have gone and why I am thrilled that Halloween is over. 

First of all, on Sunday night we had a Schick Halloween party at my sister Aimee's house.  We got all dolled up in our costumes and of course I had to take a bunch of pictures which is good because I totally failed in that department on Halloween night.  So here we are, all excited for our first Halloween party this year.

 We had a supercool Batman.....

 The cutest little cowgirl west of the Mississippi....

 And the most beautiful Snow White that anyone has ever laid eyes on.....

 We had Dr. Venkman ready to take on all those ghosts.....and then guess what I got voted to be?

 The Stay Puft Marshmallow man.  Didn't get a single of me, but really it's okay.  And yes I am pregnant, but no that is not my real belly (or legs).  How rude! 

 Here's at Aimee's house, a family shot....

 And we had to get an action shot of this.....

 Then on Monday night, we had a murder mystery dinner at Trav's sister's house with all the Maughan clan.  We had to dress up for this one too, but we all had "parts" so they had to be specific costumes.  Here are some of the Indians....Tiger Lily, Little Bear, and Dances with Wolves....

 And here's the Indians with Hope Clifton, the ranchers daughter, and Slash Jackson, the outlaw.  Neither of which were the murderers.

 Then on Tuesday, we had our second annual haunted forest.  I must say it turned out great this year!  We have added a graveyard...

 Spooky skeletons....

 A giant spider.....

 And this ghost freaked a lot of people out too....

 We had lots of spooky pictures (drawn by Rachel), pumpkin luminaries, and of course don't forget the slide of death (off of the treehouse).  Everyone had a great time and we had a really good turn out.  Like most nights we have friends over the kids ended up playing "Ghost in the Graveyard" which was very fitting.

Now this is the only picture I really got of them on Halloween night.  They had a blast and got some major candy.  This is all after they had class parties at school (which I helped out with Josh's)

So as you can see we are a little Halloweened out.  I wanted today to be my day of rest but now I have to undecorate, get my house back in order, and Trav's out of town.  Guess I'll rest next week.  At least I have lots of chocolate to tide me over until then.