pumpkin encore

we needed to carve again so that we would have pumpkins out on halloween.

saturday night was spent carving pumpkins and watching The Crazies (very scary!).

works of art - took a while, but they were so worth it!

my witchy woman

gabe's skull

love halloween festivities!

Pumpkin Carving Party

Last night was the annual Pumpkin Carving Party! It was a great night!

all lit up - volvo, cinderella, starry night, witchy woman, and grimm reaper

they look pretty awesome in the dark!

gabe's grimm reaper

my witchy woman

chelsea's starry night - this was awesome because the stars went all the way around the pumpkin!

katie's cinderella - i was jealous... told her i was going to take credit for it!



seth's volvo pumpkin - completely freehand!



thanks to everyone who came! hope you had fun!

only bad thing, these pumpkins are going to rot before halloween.. so you know gabe and i will have to do this again next weekend! :)

mickey's halloween party

last year, we discovered Mickey's Halloween Party. it was such an awesome night, we decided we wanted to do it every year. Tuesday was our trip to the mouse house for Mickey's Halloween Party.

gabe and i were in whimsical moods, so we decided to dress up. we chose simple costumes, to ease ourselves into the halloween festivities... i haven't dressed up since i went to "the howl" at USU in 2004.

below is our whole group - jmj is taking the picture.

gabe went as a detective (his mustache didn't stay on long though...), i was a sailor, lanny was a witch, emily went as a cowgirl and allyson was a little witch. (others went as themselves.)  

 here's detective gabe - minus his mustache.

 ahoy!

ally liked wandering around the lines.

janica and ally. 

mike and emily - she didn't want a picture...  

 coppin' a squat to eat some candy.

tea-cups

another great year with at Mickey's Halloween Party! while we were there, it dawned at me that next year we'll have our own little girl to take with us to Mickey's Halloween Party...

halloween craft time

last saturday, we had Emily over for a craft date. we got these cute kids from Michael's for making a haunted candy house and a graveyard scene. it was a great craft and she had fun putting it together. with the spider stickers she'd say, "i just don't like real spiders. i like these little sticker spiders." i agree!

I didn't get a good picture of her final haunted house, but here is the final graveyard...

after we finished the main craft, we did some stamping and watched Lion King. it was a lovely time with our sweet niece!