A Few Halloween Party Pictures...

We had beautiful weather for our halloween party on Saturday!!  Daytime temps were in the 70s, while the early nighttime temps were in the 50s.  Here are a few pictures that Nick took that night and during the cleanup the next day.

Welcome!

More Carving

This truly is one of my favorite fun and creative projects for this time of year.  We had another pumpkin carving session last night for our party this weekend.

I think our kids have just as much fun with it as I do!!

Who let him handle the battery powered pumpkin knife!?!?!  Yike (as Boy, himself, would say - singular - as if the situation only calls for one slight bit of panic)!!  (Oh, and that's a small glimpse of yours truly right there.  Can't believe I'm putting this out there...)

Sweetpea used her creative spark to come up with a new way of decorating pumpkins involving push pins.

Cool design!!

Here's Nick - deep in concentration.

One pumpkin in my totem pole needed replaced...

Hopefully, we can have one more pumpkin carving session before Halloween actually arrives.  Today, I have 3 sick children, some paperwork, laundry, onions, and garlic to take care of.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

Carving Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins has become my favorite part of our Fall and Halloween celebrations.

Each year, we get together with my husbands family to carve bunches of pumpkins for our Halloween party.

Everyone got in on the action.

It rained buckets here on Saturday, so we got very few pictures of our masterpieces.  Nick did manage to get some pictures of my favorite creation - my jack-o-lantern totem. 

I hope to get some more pictures of our carvings from this year, but while we are waiting, I'll leave you with one of my favorites from last year...

Happy October everyone! 

Do you carve pumpkins or have any special fall/halloween traditions?

Pumpkin Stems

I love pumpkin stems!  They can be so cool looking.  You can play the 'cloud game' with some of the stems.  What does this one look like to you?

Looks like a dragon to me.  Or a long-necked dinosaur head.

Or a praying mantis that stuck it's finger in a light socket.

We had a great time picking pumpkins from our local organic farm yesterday.  We picked them right out of the field and hauled them back to our car.  Well, me and Boy did the heavy work.  Munch took care of a very lonesome Sweetpea - helping her walk through all the pumpkin vines and choose the perfect little pumpkins for such a perfect little pumpkin.

My husband and his sisters put on a huge Halloween party each year at the beginning of October, when the weather here in Northeastern Ohio is still nice and fairly predictable (is it really ever?).  We have been tending more toward the jack-o-lantern for decorations these last few years.  Last night we gutted lots and lots of pumpkins.  Tonight we will carve them.

Since I am way behind on my list of things to do before the party, the pics of the pumpkin gutting will have to wait to be included with the pics of the pumpkin carving - tomorrow, hopefully.  Today I have to finish sewing a hat, sew a skirt, make some pumpkin cookies, and do all the other everyday stuff that comes with being a stay at home homeschooling mom of 3 lovely, but highly energetic, children.

Till tomorrow...