Oh Halloween how I love thee.

I think Halloween has been one of my favorite holidays for as long as I can remember. The thought of getting all of the candy was just pure ecstasy! We generally made costumes digging though an old box in the basement full of old dance outfits and other miscellaneous items. It was so much fun planning for what we were going to be for weeks sometimes before Halloween. But I think some of my best outfits where ones I just tossed together at the last moment.

This year most of the kids wanted to carve a pumpkin. Will even got into the act and found a squash in the store over a week before Halloween. The is always a risk due to the heat and humidity things like pumpkins go bad fast.

Josh was not really interested in carving a pumpkin but he agreed to be the carver for Heidi.

So the best part came first the part that everyone looks so forward to each year. The traditinal gutting of the pumkins.

 

Yes that is Autumn eating an ice cream cone she was a little slow with snack and so was trying to do both at the same time it was funny.

Here is the treasure everyone was digging for. They epically loved how it would cling to their fingers and would not come off. We had pumpkin guts flung all over the table.

The carving began. Everyone designed out their own pumpkins. Heidi directed Josh on what she wanted and she wanted a scary witch. The all also cut out their own. I think some of them learned that the more complected the harder it is to carve.

 Josh working on Heidi's

Will working on his rotting squash. Never fear it turns out but you will have to see at the end what it looks like.

Abby started with wanting a bat but decided to go for the spider instead very ambitious.

With the carving completed it was time to get dressed. Josh and I got dressed as well. Yes I did also carry a bag and I got my own candy. Yummy. Sad thing is that I don't like candy as much as I once did but that might be a good thing. 

Josh is a carpenter, I'm Queen Elizabeth the first. Autumn is a ummm she kept changing her mind so I'm not 100% certain what she ended up calling herself, but she loved spraying her hair all purple. She has been begging me to let her die it in real life. Let me think about it...NO! Hannah is a witch. Heidi is Tinker Bell and Abby is a Dead Bride. lol. They all came up with their own things. It's never the same from year to year.

We headed off to get the good stuff leaving Ben and Will to hand out the candy and light the pumpkins. Here is what our front porch looked like.The bats hanging down flash. The purple thing off to the left is a big spider that moves and then there is the orange web above it.

Here is everyone's pumpkins.

Abby's. It was a lot of work and Will ended up having to help cut out the legs. She was very happy with the result. Also I don't think she will do one like this next year but then you never know.

Hannah's masterful mermaid. I would have never thought of doing something like this. I'm amazed at how creative they all are.

Autumn's she was very happy with it and enjoyed the fact that she did not need any help with any of the cleaning or cutting.

Heidi's and Josh's creation. Heidi loved it and said that is just what I wanted Josh!

Benjamen's It is so artistic I liked how it was so original. the nose I my favorite part.

This is Will's creation. it is a squash and so had the top part of it and the bottom part. He had this planed out for day's and he was so excited that he had Halloween night off so he could carve it and that it turned out just the way he had envisioned it.

We had a lot of fun. Not much candy this year. A lot of the homes we usually go to did not have their lights on. Oh well we got enough to keep us in candy for a few day's anyway.

Happy Halloween post a few days late. LOL