Halloween week!

Last week I took the girls to the pumpkin patch again, just because it's so much fun and was still around. Anna asked where it went this morning when we drove by on the way to school. It looks like putting golf tees in a pumpkin is hard, serious work. :)
There's my girls happily making a pumpkin face out of a paper plate.And Anna showing off her name writing abilities. She's not really interested in writting any other letters, but she LOVES to write her name. She knows her whole name is Anna Marijke Vandenberge, but she can only write Anna. Emma, by the way, seems to think her name is Emma Marijke Vandenberge. :) We're working on saying Ruth. :)My happy girls are so proud of their pumpkin faces!

This was the test run of the cat outfit and makeup for Halloween

Anna got to wear her costume to school for a parade and trick-or-treating. Emma's class didn't participate - only the "pre-school" classes - but her teachers didn't seem to mind that she wanted to dress up too.

I am one of Anna's homeroom teachers, so I got to do their Halloween party. It was crazy but lots of fun. I have a new appreciation for the teachers!!

They decorated tiny pumkins.
Trick-or-treating in the church offices. Anna did share her candy with Emma. :) And the parade.

I went to California last Friday for my best friends wedding and got back Monday. I post a blog for that when I can scam some other people's pictures from facebook who actually brought their cameras for this awesome event!!! Here are some random backyard shots while I was in gone.

Oops I forgot to save the rotated file again, but you can see how high Anna is swinging. She does this all by herself.

Anton's mom bought him a marching snare from an old drum teacher. It's very loud, but I'm excited for him to have it since he wants to march in college, and he'll have to learn a different grip between now and then. I'm also excited that it went to live at his mom's house. :DCopycat!Tony had to get the girls ready for Halloween and take them. The ladybug hat requires several bobby pins - I thought he did pretty good! He said they didn't want their faces painted again. :( I thought their expressions in these 3 pictures were funny.

Anton and Junior came for a little while too. I love Anna's movie star look here. :)

I guess Anton dressed up as a teenager walking his dog. :)All my kids!!!!! :)

This was cute - there is a really creepy scary guy behind Anton (I cropped him out for the benefit of any of our young friends who like to look at the blog!). Anton saw him before the girls and managed to keep them from seeing him. Yay big brother Anton!!Anton got new glasses yesterday - aren't they stylin'??