Halloween Festivities

The month of October was full of fun things for us to get ready for Halloween. There is a city in our valley that always does what is called the Pumpkin Walk. Different groups of people sign up and decorate pumpkins in different scenes from movies and other popular things. The first time I ever went to the Pumpkin Walk was way back in college for Family Home Evening. It was late, cold, and there were a ton of people. Since then, I have started taking the kids during the day when the crowds are not so bad and it is (usually warmer-last year, we were in our snow clothes to walk around!). This year, it started over UEA weekend so it was a little more packed with people than usual.....but we did get to go during the day since there was no school! I made the mistake of getting the kids flu shots right before we went so A was not in the best mood-hence her face (or non-face) in the picture!

To celebrate the holiday we also decorated sugar cookies. K has been asking me to do it for a while so I decided that we would do them with leftover cookies from a mutual activity. The kids had a great time making their pumpkins, cats, moons, and ghosts into all sorts of creative things with tons of candy on them!

Finally we did the annual pumpkin carving. Just like every other year, the kids wanted nothing to do with getting the guts out so that job landed on Randy and I. Our pumpkins were soft this year so it made it easy for the kids to carve them alone-or with only a little help-and no struggling to get the pieces out. The few weeks before Halloween were pretty full for us!