Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Because Halloween is fun, darn it!

Scott and Andrea came down for a mid-week visit on the 21st. We spent the day carving pumpkins and finishing the counter for my desk upstairs. The pumpkins turned out fantastic. We got lots of compliments on them from our trick-or-treaters.




We quickly cleaned up Natalie's birthday party on the 24th and went over to the Gimmeson’s annual “Power-tools only Pumpkin Carving Contest.” In addition to lots of great food, we really enjoyed seeing all the pumpkin creations. Joe even took 3rd place with his African tribal pumpkin. The last minute “Joe Rules” pumpkin, for some reason, didn’t place. We thought my swirly pumpkin could have taken the trophy, but I didn’t have time to finish.





Here are our Halloween pictures: Natalie as Sleeping Beauty and Arri as Little Bo Peep, the pumpkins in their glory, the trick-or-treaters, Liz in her Pocahontas get-up, Joe as Travis Pastrana, and Brooklin the ladybug. AJ was a clone trooper (Star Wars, of course), but I somehow missed getting a good picture of him. Joe actually drove the ’50 around the neighborhood while the kids trick-or-treated. It was fantastic way to let the bigger kids keep going while he ferried the younger ones home when they got cold.






1 comment:

PML said...

Wow, you're right. That is totally weird that the Joe Rules pumpkin didn't place in the contest.