Happy Halloween!

Our family tradition is to carve jack-o-lanterns on the 30th that we light on Halloween. We each get a pumpkin and draw a face on it to cut it out. Here is Daddy and Maddie with their "before" shots with their pumpkins. Unfortunately for Mommy, the pumpkin she had picked out from the pumpkin patch had gone bad, so she had to live vicariously through Daddy and Maddie in the pumpkin carving world.


Oh the horror of it all! Don't let this picture fool you... Maddie didn't really like getting her hands inside the pumpkin to rip out it's guts. She would reach in tentatively and pick one pumpkin seed out the whole time saying "Ewwwww". She did however draw the face on the pumpkin to cut out (which I did).


This is the pumpkin face that Maddie drew. She wanted to make a tiny, tiny nose...



The resulting pumpkins lit up for Halloween with the fairy princess ready to go trick or treating! Maddie did go trick or treating a little bit with our neighbors kids Ty and Cadance. I must say that Maddie was much more adept at the trick or treating thing this year than she was last year. She would go running up to the house, say trick or treat and then thank you with an occasional Happy Halloween thrown in there...but she would also pick out the candy that someone put in her bucket and say..."I don't like that one" *heh* We just did a short excursion and then it was back to the house where Maddie became the official candy giver-outer. In all actuality I think she enjoyed this even more than the trick or treating itself. Big kids came by trick or treating and they had to say it to Maddie before she would carefully select the peice of candy that should be bestowed upon them. Some of the costumes were cute and adorable and some were just...uhm...yeah....I mean kids in their mid-teens, not in costume with a plastic grocery bag walking up. Last year I made them tell me what they were before I'd give them candy...this year, Maddie was the gate keeper to the candy and had a much lower standard for costumes *grin*

That was our Halloween....hope you all had a good one!