Halloween 2018

It was a beautiful Halloween this year, temps in the 50s! 

Ready to trick-or-treat!

Jamie brilliantly planned to carve our pumpkins in his art room, so all the mess was out of my kitchen!  He brought the girls after school and I joined them after work.  Not too shabby this year!

Carving Rapunzel

Getting messy

A family of pumpkins

The "coolest" teacher in school?

Each girl had a little parade at school... at totally different times of day.  I have constant working-mom guilt, so I found time to race out of the office to visit each kid, and Jamie was able to get there for Maggie too.  Maggie was in her element, so happy for such a festive day.  Evie was totally thrown off by my visit and was very sad to see me go.

Happily painting a pumpkin before the student parade

One of the few almost-smiles I could get

Grandpa and Uncle Justin joined Jamie and the girls for trick-or-treating while I passed out candy.  We had a lot of kids this year, seems like our neighborhood is filling up with young families each year!  Maggie went out for two rounds.  Evie was really shy and only went to a few houses; her sweet uncle managed to get her quite a bit of candy though.  On Halloween I let the girls each as much candy as they want... Evie was totally wild!  Both girls passed out hard and were not ready to wake up for school the next day!

Silly Uncle Justin

Grandma watched the girls and Will and Violet last weekend so that we could have date nights.  Violet is a great entertainer for the girls!

I think Evie is ready to be a big sister

Violet is so sick of the paparazzi

Just loves this little girl

Maggie had a playdate last weekend, so Jamie took Evie to see the Foley football team championship game.  She was a high spirits and keeps talking about going to another football game with Daddy.  I think it was a special one-on-one outing for her.

Getting some laps in

Special date with Daddy

Here's some others from the week:

I can usually get Evie to chill out at a restaurant
if we cuddle for a bit

Maggie - ready for catalog modeling
Evie - ready to get the heck out of the picture

Maggie's teacher sent this - on the way TO her MORNING
field trip... need to get this girl some more sleep!

Gymnastics is going great for Maggie... Evie is regressing and having trouble joining the group again.  Trying not to be frustrated, but aggh, everything is such a struggle lately!