The Great Pumpkin Carve

Or not.  What was I thinking?!  I thought they'd love carving pumpkins, scooping out the goop and drawing out their picture of choice. 

Turns out, one touch of the guts on their hands and they were done.  There was no amount of coaxing and convincing that would change their minds.

I stepped in and did all the scooping and cleaning while they watched the seeds and goop come out.  I knew once I started, I was stuck doing the dirty work and finished up the job. 

Looks like I'm on my own if there's going to be more pumpkin carving.  I had high hopes for some wonky pumpkin faces.  We tried!

Halloween Preview

I hadn't managed to take any family pictures for the last month, at least, not MY family.  I've been busy taking photos for every other family but mine - but last night I made sure to grab the camera as we headed out for a night on the town. 

It was Trick or Treat night downtown on the square, here we are, unsuspecting family thinking we're going to hop from store to store and fill our buckets with candy. And have a good 'ole time.

So we walk to the corner, buckets in tow... all pumped up for some awesome ToTing.

Reality was, however, everyone on the planet thought it was a good idea.  Shock and awe would be about right when we saw the LINES of people along the sidewalks, wrapped across the streets while wiggly impatient kids whined and pouted that we had to wait in line to get to each door.  So there was a lot of this:

More of this:

And of course, candy to soothe the wait.

All in all, it was a fun night seeing everyone all dressed up and the clever costumes, but lesson learned for next year - skip the downtown ToT event, too many people, too long of lines.

More Halloween events throughout the weekend, so more cupcake goodness to come!