Halloween 2009

On Friday night we carved out pumpkins for the big event of Halloween.  The pumpkin carving is Chris' speciality!  He likes to pull out his dremmel for the job!  The kids pick the faces they want on their pumpkins and Dad makes it happen!  Carlie and Max really got into the pumpkin gut cleaning--Ethan did not enjoy this step.  Tatum just wanted to eat everything.

Halloween day was fantastic this year!!!  Carlie had a softball game at noon--the weather was absolutely PERFECT so it was very enjoyable being outside cheering her on!  She had an awesome game!!!  Carlie and Morgan Mann made 4 outs at 2nd base--Morgan was short stop and she would get the ball and throw it to Carlie who was playing second base and they got 4 outs that way!  (Not an easy feat!)  And then Carlie's last hit was a big one--HOME RUN baby!!!  And her home run was the last point her team needed to win!  YAHOO!  I am so darn proud of that girl!  

As I said earlier, the weather was perfect today so we opted to eat dinner outside for a change.  Max was soo excited when he found out we were eating outside that he exclaimed, "HALLOWEEN IS SOOO SPECIAL!!!"  So I had to take a picture to capture the moment!

Everyone wore the same costume they did last week for Trunk-or-Treat except for Max...he wanted to change it up a bit.  So Carlie was a lady bug (this was one of her dance recital costumes that I paid a lot of money for so I try to get as much use out of it as possible!), Ethan was a storm trooper, Max was the red Spiderman (last weekend he was Batman), and Tatum was a black cat.  (I loved asking Tatum what she was for Halloween because she says "cat soo dang cute!  It has 2 syllables "CA-AT!")

We went trick-or-treating around our neighborhood.  It didn't take very long for our kids to tire of it.  They wanted to get home and hand out candy--plus I think they are a little burned out on candy from last weekend!  But we had a great time and it was another great Halloween for the Meekers!!!

Our front porch decor!!!