a lion and a bunny

In spite of the fact that I really don't get too excited about Halloween...I did dress the kids up, and we all went around to a few of our neighbors' houses. Joey was a lion (thanks to our wonderful neighbor who let us borrow it!), and Kylah was a cute little bunny. I even painted their faces all by myself. Kylah's didn't last too long because she kept sucking on her fingers and smearing it.

I usually get pretty lucky when taking pictures of my kids. They are both pretty photogenic, and they both like to look at the camera and smile. Well, I had a heck of a time getting a picture of them in their costumes. It was probably worse because I was trying to do it before Joe got home to help me. These next few pictures give you a little glimpse of what I went through to get a picture of them together:

Cool bunny ears Kylah...

Cool lion ears Joey...

We're bored; can we go get some candy now?...

Oh, the joys!

Kylah did make a pretty cute little bunny, though. I put her in the bjorn and carried her around with us, which she thought was great!

I think this picture of Joey with Joe is so sweet. They are sharing a fun moment together.

Now, if you ask Joey if he had fun trick-or-treating, this is what he will tell you: "Burger King, scare, candy, lion, roar." You may wonder why he's talking about Burger King for Halloween. Well, the second house we went to last night was answered by a guy wearing the 'Burger King' king costume with a mask. Of course my sweet, timid Joey was deathly afraid of this caped man in a mask, so he starts screaming and backing down the stairs. It took a little bit for him to go back to get a piece of candy from the guy (after the guy removed his mask.) And of course Joey thought that all the rest of the houses we went to were going to have a scary Burger King man answer the door. We actually caught in on video, but I don't know how to download from our video camera to our computer. It's hilarious. So, now Joey will always equate Halloween with the scary Burger King man!

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Joe and I are exhausted after staying up until 2:15 am last night painting our basement. We spent the rest of the day today painting too. The kids did great...Joey watched Cars on our portable DVD player, and Kylah played in her toys and slept. As I type this, everything is back in it's place, and it looks great! Here's a picture of the corner so you can see the two colors we painted. The brown is actually quite a bit darker, but the flash makes it look lighter. We did the chocolate brown on one wall, and the yellowish/tan on the rest of the walls.

We are so excited to have Josh, Val and their kids come visit us this week!