Halloween

Patrick is Ready to Get Candy!!!

Marshall Loves Chocolate!!

Our Little Monkey


Graham's First Halloween!!!



Momma and Her Boys!


Daddy and His Boys!

Happy Halloween!!! We had a blast Friday night trick-or-treating! All three boys were in a pleasant mood (very rare) and we went up and down our street to collect candy. Although, I must admit I was dreading the whole thing up until about 6:30pm because for the past month Patrick and Marshall have wanted nothing to do with their costumes. Patrick would just say, "Marshy monkey, Marshy be elephant." He didn't want to put either costume on! And, when we went to a friend's house for a party Friday morning, Patrick was scared of all the kids in costumes! But, he warmed up at the party and we ended up making some arts and crafts, having lunch and heading home just in time for nap. Thanks Colleen for a wonderful time!!!...So, Friday around 6:30pm Robert told the boys it was time to put on their costumes. They both just looked at him confused for a minute, but when he said they could get treats if they wore their elephant and monkey the switch was flipped!!! Patrick was all about his elephant outfit!!! Marshall didn't conplain too much because his big brother was doing it, so it must be okay. So, off we went to trick-or-treat!! Patrick carried his little brothers' candy bags and at each house the held them out to collect candy. However, he was somewhat confused by the whole process! He got a sucker at the first house and began to eat it. Then, at the next house he wanted to put the half eaten sucker into the candy bowl and pick a new piece!! It was hysterical! Once we got past the whole don't put your old candy back, just take another piece thing they all had fun. Marshall is a huge chocolate fan, as his face is a total mess in all of our pics! I think they both should have had terrible stomach aches, with as much candy as they ate, but they crashed from their sugar highs and drifted off to sleep quite nicely!!

Robert and I then headed out, with Graham, to our annual neighborhood Halloween block party. It was a ton of fun!!! We sat by the fire pit, ate smores and had lots of great food! Thanks, Don and Terry, for the awesome pulled pork you smoked!!! Graham was a trooper at the party and got to be passed around the whole night. He just smiled and cooed at everyone and seemed to enjoy himself. He's our party baby! He went to his first outdoor party when he was only 4 days old, so I guess he's got it down!!

The Carraway's had a great weekend, overall!! The boys have somewhat adjusted to the time change and we have a week of temps in the 70's!!! So, we'll get to spend lots of time outside this week burning off all the extra energy they have from eating all of our Halloween candy.