Hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween. I have been watching everyone’s blog for those scary Halloween costumes and great fall pictures. We got super lucky with such nice weather. Our week had been really busy so we did not make it to the pumpkin patch. I don't even think my kids missed it. My son and I pick out some pumpkins at Super Wal-Mart. It does not exactly fit into our fall tradition but they had plenty to chose from and Sam was happy with that... so I was happy! They happened to be the biggest pumpkins we had ever carved. Since they were only one price and not pay by the pound Sam and I dug through boxes and boxes until we found the biggest ones. So our pumpkins had lots of guts inside. Sam and his Dad took care of the digging out. I just snapped lots of pictures. And yes that is my son is sitting on the kitchen island... he got better leverage that way.
After the digging out came the planning of the faces. Permanent markers and lots of thinking took place. They finally came up with what they thought to be pretty darn good faces. Next out came the knife. We use a dry wall knife. It is perfect and works great. The kids are getting big enough that they wanted to do the honors.
It was fun with limited mess and another year’s jack-o-lantern to adorn the front porch completed!
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Halloween at my house is a big deal. All my family comes for the festivities of Trick or Treating. The nieces are growing up so fast. This year they really caught onto the ringing of the door bell and getting candy. They stayed out pretty long. I snapped pictures of them before rushing out the door. I always stay behind with my Mom to hand out candy. This year we had a small helper, my nephew Ben. He was dressed as the yellow guy from the Wiggles.
Abby was dressed as an angel... no halo just wings.
Aly was Sleeping Beauty... no sleeping just beauty.
Katie was a 50s girl going to a sock hop.
Gracie was Minnie Mouse.
And for my two... Sam was a Mummy and Hannah went as Sarah Palin.
Thanks for looking!