Halloween 2009

We did carve pumpkins this year.  It was a beautiful day to sit in the yard and not make a mess in the house :)!

Mary’s first experience with pumpkin “guts.”

We had great Halloween costumes planned.  Jack was going to be Luke Skywalker.  Mary was going to be Yoda.  Because I was scheduled to work and Bryan was taking the kids trick-or-treating, he decided he needed a costume too.  He was going to be Obiwan.  Grace was going to be a veterinarian (her career choice at the moment), and Kathryn was going to be a princess (which one changed on a daily basis).

Plans changed when Jack woke up dizzy with a terrible headache the Wednesday before Halloween.  A trip to the doctor confirmed our suspicions – Jack had H1N1, better known as “swine flu.”  By Saturday (Halloween), all of the kids and Bryan and I had it.  Luckily, Bryan and I had the vaccine earlier enough that we didn’t get as sick.  So, after a few days of having an upstairs sick ward and downstairs “well” ward, we were on the mend but going nowhere for Halloween. 

For Mary’s birthday, we decided to make it into a costume party.

 

 

Everyone dressed up in their costumes, went trick-or-treating in the house and played the mummy game with toilet paper.  Not bad for an impromptu party!  It was so much fun!  Mary loved her pizza and ice cream cake (she LOVES ice cream – cake not so much :)).

We love our beautiful, smart 2-year old!