Ahhh, fall is in the air, at least the pretend version of fall here in Texas. This week we whipped out the mini pumpkins, spoooooky cat embroidered hand towels, not to mention our friend Figaro who is allowed to be our outdoor/not so outdoor pet but once a year. I could spend hours in the Halloween section, daydreaming about cheesy ways to deck out the porch.
L & M joined in the fun by means of a decorative headboard. Who knew a measly strand of orange lights could be so life altering, even making it to a record two-day streak for the favorite part of the day? Ryan and I chuckle at the poltergeist style glow which emits from the room every night, making its way into dreams of all things orange: pumpkins, scary monsters, Halloween.
I’m not sure which we’re looking forward to more, Halloween or the upcoming Daddy Daughter Campout at Granger Lake. This weekend we geared up for the big event, even running through a practice campout in the living room! Love those cozy Sunday afternoons, complete with S’mores, or rather, according the two little voices in my kitchen, “More snores!”
ps. Liv and I-not so much invited to Friday’s campout.
Speaking of Chocolate….
Based on past history, I don’t often let Ryan make clothing decisions for the girls, but one little number made its way into our cart mommy approved:
Chocolate GOOOOOOOD!! says the monster on Liv’s tee.
Which is totally fitting because today Liv charmed her way into a chocolatey snack via the back row of the Relief Society.
Slimed everything, and everyone, in her path. Came home totally smelling like chocolate. Who knew her Pterodactl squeal could elicit such goods?
I figured we’d enhance her mouth-watering, baby goodness and pull out the shirt, of which selling point conveniently includes the feature:
I smell like chocolate.
Twitches 2009
Honestly, we have been waiting for this Halloween ever since the twins were 6 months old and the Disney channel first aired this show -you know the one:
they’re twins! they’re witches~they’re TWITCHES!~
Since then we’ve been twumpkins, twangaroos, and twincesses but nothing has quite the same ring to it.
Here they are on the way to their Preschool Halloween Party. I signed up to help and had a blast with all the cute kids and their costumes.
Maddie helps turn her teacher, Miss Wendy, into a mummy! and loved every minute of it.
Liv helps herself to a tattoo-a little kitty on her hand, that’s hard core!
There was face painting…done by the lovely Miss Jodene dressed up like a flu shot doctor! London would not go near her the entire day.
Face art, fishing, nail painting, a pumpkin walk are just a few of the activities.
Here they all are lined up in their costumes-duck tails and bubbles, kiddos!
On the actual day of Halloween, we decided to go to an event at the New Life Baptist Church of all places, because they offered hayrides, with cousins Gwen and Harry-
As Hansel and Gretel! Could their costumes have been more perfect?!
After all that anticipation, the hayrides were cancelled because of a soggy field, but we did practically get recruited into the Baptist Church and came home with a whole bunch of keychains, among other paraphanalia!
Liv camping out at the duck pond for a solid twenty minutes.
Occasionally she made a friend or two.
An obvious monopoly over duck #2! I definitely need to install a duck pond in my living room.
Aunt Heather comes for a night of trick or treating…
(Love the knee socks and sandals look, who knew it would work even when you’re not a twitch?)
Bringing her awesome costume box! Here I am as some sort of hippie go-go girl!
Look closely, CHEETAH eyes!
L & M were pretty hard core about trick or treating, you can tell by the stance. Apparently candy buckets on the shoulders not only looked like purses but made for hand-holding, which made them run faster too. We had a couple of other friend parties and late nights and I am starting to see why we ended up with a need for the previous post! All in all, I’d say we lived Twitches to the fullest (while hopefully anticipating a Twitches 2 edition of costuming)!