Halloween fun!

What fun would Halloween be without carving pumpkins? None at all (for Brian)! Actually, we held off carving until the very last moment this year. Last year, I'm thinking, we had mushy pumpkins by the time Halloween rolled around. This year, they were fresh and tough (to carve that is).

Brian completed the bulk of the job. However, he let the kiddos dig in with their hands, but he used a utensil. That's what I call cheatin' (if you ask me).

Look at those ooky guts. The kiddos actually were scooping it out to start with (until they got grossed out by the texture).

W0uld he dare? Nope he didn't. But the shot was good so I'm using it.

Caitlin was a "bat" this year. She chose her costume (though we had a few fights about some of the other bat costumes she wanted). What is up with the skimpy costumes for kids? Next year I'm going to encourage the cutting two holes in a sheet idea and wearing a ghost costume. We got Cody's costume from our babysitter Carol. It was a little big on him, but Cody liked it all the same.

Here's a close up of the jack-o-lanterns. Brian tried to make a friendly faced one and a scary faced one, but I'm not sure either of them look frightening. One looks more cross than anything. On the front one, the eyeball popped out, so it looks almost crazy. Ha!

We decorated the walkway a little bit more than usual this year. However, that netting for a spider web is harder to work with than cotton with maple syrup on your hands.

I made the ears for Caitlin because she didn't think people would realize she was a bat!

We took them around the neighborhood and made sure they were good and tired before they filled their little Halloween bags up. (Thanks Grandma Diane!) We had fun though and our teeth are not rotting out of our heads, so it's all good.