Pumpkins and Halloween

This is a year of lasts for us - last time at the pumpkin patch with Nathan.  We had to get our cute pumpkin photos.  

Savannah's neighbor friend came over to carve pumpkins with us.  Weston had to decorate a pumpkin for class, so his is the black dragon.  

I had to make some accessories for the costumes.  Savannah wanted to be Merida, from Brave, so we had to find a dress and things.  I bought the wig online and found the green velvet dress at the thrift store.  I made some puffy sleeves for the dress, bow, arrows, and quiver.  I made a squid launcher for Weston's costume - Vector, from Despicable Me.  I had to make another scarf for Owen's Gru costume (Despicable Me).  Nathan was Gru a previous year, but we couldn't find the scarf.  This one turned out better anyway.  And Jared made his own costume this year.  He did the shirt and glasses for Napoleon Dynamite - he already had the perfect hair for it!  We were having a hard time getting a serious picture without busting out laughing.  

Savannah was the only one who went trick-or-treating this year and got a lot of candy.  We all went to the chili dinner / trunk-or-treat at church.  I didn't decorate our car.  One of the coolest decorated cars was Harry Potter themed with a real rat.  

We had a real rat (not a cute white one) in our house for a week in November, which we finally caught on a glue trap.  That rat was a hard one to catch - he was able to get things off the trap without triggering it.    

Creepy little critter... a little less creepy photo of a spiderweb.