Trick or Treat!

Jacob had a hard time trying to decide what to be for Halloween this year.  We have a couple of hand-me-down costumes and some other dress up items on hand, so he had a few to choose from.  He finally settled on Darth Vader, which was perfect because we were then able to dress up Daniel as Yoda.  And it was really cute because Daniel actually knows who Yoda is!  He's seen the movies enough times and watches Jacob play the games on his XBox, so he even knew how to use his stick to walk like Yoda does.  Dylan surprised the boys and dressed up as an old man.

I was amazed by the amount of trick-or-treaters we had.  We live on a street with about 25 houses and I thought that I had bought more than enough candy.  Well, what I was not expecting was the amount of people that drove to our neighborhood to go trick-or-treating.  We were out of candy by 7:15.  Now I know that I will definitely have to buy more candy for next year.

Now I will leave you with these pictures while I go raid my kids' huge hauls of candy.  :)

Think I am cute, you do.

Mommy, I am your son.  Now give me all your candy.

Had to get one to show who was under that scary mask!

Dylan signed up for his AARP membership shortly after this picture was taken.

The crew before heading out.

He wanted a picture taken with his pumpkin.

Getting ready to head out in the rain.

Seriously.  How did everyone manage to not give this cutie all of their candy?

So, we finally bought a new laptop for me (my old one died back in June) and I kind of love it.  But, really for just one reason.  Apparently, it has some sort of recovery feature on it and it was able to pull the defective pictures off of our memory card from last Christmas!  Yay!!!  And seeing as we have less than two months until my favorite holiday, I figured that I may as well go ahead and post these.

Jacob puts the finishing touches on our sugar cookies we made for Santa.

Watching Santa Tracker on the computer.  Jacob was really into the "magic" of Christmas this year.

The boys open their new ornaments for the tree that Daddy found for them last-minute.  Daniel got a Little Einsteins one and Jacob got Buzz Lightyear.

In their matching PJs that they got to open on Christmas Eve.  Getting ready to head off to bed!

And this picture wasn't one of the lost ones, but when I came across it, I just couldn't resist.

That's Jacob hamming it up in Dylan's glasses.  He's always trying to come up with new ways to be silly and this one just makes me smile every time I look at it.