A Hanewinkel Halloween

Halloween is usually a pretty good time here at Hanewinkel House...  Usually.  For whatever reason though this year presented us with some interesting challenges.  First, for whatever reason, none of the kids seemed to be able to decide on a costume.  By the time the night before Halloween rolled around Ryan & I were about to pull our hair out with them and just start assigning costumes...  "You WILL be spider man & you WILL like it!".  Jude woke up Saturday morning with a cough that sounded croupy so we were concerned that he may have to miss out, and Lucy is cutting 6, that's right, SIX teeth right now so she is just miserable.  We had meltdowns and runny noses and coughing and sneezing and griping and complaining...  Our Halloween was going no where fast.
Then, the sun came out on our little family.
The kids finally decided on something they each wanted to be, and were all excited about their ideas.
Jude was feeling much better by Halloween morning.
Lucy loved having a costume on and seemed totally preoccupied from her recent state of misery.
Halloween turned out to be really great for us all.  Maybe even better because of the rough start we had.

 Joel got to cut all of the tops off of the pumpkins AND carve his very own.  He was stoked.

 Little hands were perfect for cleaning this pumpkin out :).

 Yummy.

 Jude got to carve his pumpkin too, with some help from dad.

 The finished product.  I know, this picture is awful but it's the best I could do.

And finally... Joel as "Aragorn" (from Lord of the Rings), Jude as "Bilbo Baggins" (from The Hobbit), Rory as the beautiful princess, and Lucy as the little purple dragon!