Happy Halloween!

Lots of good fall fun happening around here...

Our story starts at the pumpkin patch last weekend, you know, or perhaps you don't, Maddie missed going to the pumpkin patch with her school friends because she was home sick (she ended up staying home for the entire week). Of course the field trip to the pumpkin patch had been talked about ALOT and she was quite upset. So, we promised her that we would go to a pumpkin patch and pick out our pumpkins, so that is what we did. Since it poured rain on the Saturday we ended up going early Sunday before we had to head to Chinese school (and her first of 3 Halloween celebrations)

Jump forward in time to this morning...Here are our beautiful, well formed pumpkins ready for carving! Of course, Daddy has the big one, I have the medium one and Maddie has the small one. She actually wanted a *really* small pumpkin aka decorative gourd but we convinced her to go a tad larger.


We each chose the design of our pumpkin, we were careful to pull out the pumpkin seeds and toasted them *yum!* Maddie enjoyed getting messy including getting us messy in the process!


Oh my! What is that? A photo of Mommy?!?! Yes, here is a picture of our handy work. Daddy did a scary vampire, Mommy did a heart theme, and Maddie went sans nose but a boot shaped mouth.


Now, I must tell you that her halloween costume has changed every day, even multiple times in one day when I would ask her. She ended up wearing her renaissance dress to the Halloween party at Chinese school. Today she wanted to be something scary...so we went with a pirate witch! I mean, that's scary right?


It seemed to have worked, and this year Daddy did the walk around the neighborhood with our neighbors and their kids - a pack of 5 scouring the neighborhood for any house with a light on!
Mommy manned the front porch and gave out candy until they returned and Maddie took over that duty.