Belated Halloween

A few days before Halloween we invited our friends Bryan, Shelly, and Mitchell and dan's sister Sariah, Neum, and their kids over for pumpkin carving. They turned out really good! I am known to cut myself anytime I am holding a knife, so I cleaned the insides and Dan carved. We made a pretty good team.

Also, one day that week, Tom and Suzanne came up with Samantha, Seth, and Trey and the kids played in the leaves.

This year Ashton was an angel for halloween. She was so excited about going trick-or-treating, we worked all week on saying "trick or treat". We went to the store to pick out her angel wings which she loved putting on, walking around, and making sure everyone noticed her pretty wings. While we were at the store, Dan thought it would be funny to put on a mask and scare her. I allowed it because I've never seen Ashton scared and I honestly thought she would laugh when she saw Papa with a mask on. Sadly, she didn't think it was funny, she was terrified and was so scared she couldn't even talk. So when Halloween came around she did not want to put on her costume. I had to bribe her with candy. So I finally got her dressed and was about to take a picture of her when our doorbell rang. It was our friends shelly and her son mitchell dressed as werewolves. Ashton of course freaked out and started crying, so the only picture I could get was one with a big wad of gum in her mouth after she had just calmed down.

With some coaxing from Dan and I, she decided that going to get candy at the neighbors would still be fun. Dan came to a couple doors with us, then went home to pass out candy. Ash and I worked the rest of the neighborhood and got a lot of yummy candy. Ashton loved the attention from our neighbors and of course all that candy!! All in all it turned out to be pretty fun.