Halloween 2012...

I woke up excited for the Halloween Holiday. Even though I was tired I started getting breakfast ready at 6:30. I thought it would be fun to make pancakes into ghosts. It was a flop. Only a couple turned out. It just made things messy. Than it was a rush to get all of us ready. Cole's halloween parade started at 9 and so we wanted to get there early. Well my plan was to get everyone dressed and ready and than I would shower after they were all ready. We ran out of time and guess who had to go gross to the school. Me. That got me a little grumpy which started the morning off bad.
We did get extra time though. Because Ben came and picked Cole up and took him to school. Than Kev and I finished getting ready and headed for the school. It all worked out and I got over being grumpy about my no shower morning.

Cole was so cute in the parade. We also got to see all the cousins in the parade too. Cole didn't really want to dress up but I had to convince him that all the other kids would be dressed up and than he was ok with the idea. He later told me that he thought the parade was going to be different. He thought he was going to be throwing candy. Guess I should have explained about the parade a little better.

Later in the afternoon I was so tired, and I wanted to be a fun Mom so bad and carve pumpkins (yes we had not done that yet) and frost sugar cookies I made earlier in the week, and I wanted to take the kids to both grandparents too, but I was pooped and just wanted a nap.

So what did I do. I had a good little cry over how I was such a below average mom ( I didn't even think to send a treat with Cole for all the kids in his class, like the other mom's did).
After my cry, I turned on the tv and it was sponge bob (I hate sponge bob for some reason but I didn't care) and I went and laid down.

I felt better after my nap. We got our two little pumpkins from our garden and brought them in and I thought we could paint them. The kids wanted to carve them so we did a fast carve job and than it was time to trick or treat. It wasn't how I pictured the day but it turned out ok and sometimes a nap and a good cry makes everything better!