Happy Halloween!

 I'm a little late posting, but we had a great Halloween!

The kids didn't have school on Thursday, so we packed it full! Our morning started with an appointment to get Issa her first passport. It is terribly unfair that her passport picture is actually good.

As soon as we finished there, we came home to finally carve our pumpkins. Evan's was so big we had to do it on the floor:

 Issa opted to paint rather than carve this year:

 And Evan enlisted her to do the sketch of his carving:

 I opted for a very traditional happy guy:

 Dad ended up helping Evan because his walls were so thick:

The end result was pretty amazing:

And Dad and Issa were very pleased by their new front porch decor:

This year, we went with another family costume. We all love the movie Totoro, and Totoro is always exactly the size he needs to be, so we were all Totoro in his various sizes:

 Those costumes were brilliant when we ordered them and it was 50 degrees outside. On Halloween, it was 80 and we were all melting.

They were my cutest trick-or-treaters:

 Every year Issa still does the math homework her second grade teacher gave her:

 It's all sorting and counting and adding and it's not Halloween if she doesn't do it.I just roll with it.

We watching the Nightmare Before Christmas with cold beverages instead of hot cocoa and listened to one of the most impressive thunderstorms I've ever seen to end our night. I would say it was a good one...