Cooped up Halloweeny activities

I didn't run my race on Saturday because I got a terrible cold and Alex woke up with a fever on Friday night. I figured it would be colossally stupid to run 10 miles in the rain while sick with a feverish kid at home. It's a good thing I made that choice as the rest of Saturday I felt like I had been hit by a truck. Alex's fever was gone on Sunday morning but none of us wanted to leave the house and infect other people so we did some fun activities at home.

I made sugar cookies and the boys decorated them with Halloween color icing:



From now on, I am going to buy these tiny tubes of icing for all holiday cookie decorating with the boys. It barely made a mess even with Alex's tendency to get insanely messy. And it dried quickly so I could put them away without making a mess.



We also carved the pumpkins we got at the pumpkin farm.



The boys didn't want anything to do with scooping out the insides or feeling squishy pumpkin guts, so Jon and I got the pleasure of scooping out four pumpkins by ourselves.



This was the first year the boys were actually interested in pumpkin carving. We went a little crazy with the hole punches because they had so much fun doing it. They were really excited to see the pumpkins with the LED lights inside when we put them on the front porch. I think it's going to be a riot to see their reaction to everyone's decorations on Saturday night.

When I went to get pictures of the boys with the pumpkins, I made a big mistake taking pictures in front of our picture window because they all look weird in one way or another.



See? Horribly weird effects that may or may not have been caused by Nate pulling the entire camera basket off the counter (with camera body, lenses, flash, everything). But you get the idea - parents feeling crappy but still pulling out awesome Halloweeny activites for their beloved children.