Halloween

As many of you already know, Halloween is probably my least favorite holiday...but having kids makes it a little more fun. I've never been one to really dress up and make a huge deal out of trick or treating so it's nice that we have the Harvest Fest at our church to give the kids a venue to enjoy the "holiday"

Having said that, I did want to start some tradition with the kids this year like carving a pumpkin. We visited a few pumpkin patches this year but ended up getting our pumpkin at the local Safeway (buy 1 get 1 free). Once we got Timo off the pumpkin (don't know why he loves to sit on every pumpkin) it was time to get started. Young drew the face on first and the kids went crazy for his marker so I got them crayons to draw on it themselves.

Young is the master artist in our family so he was in charge of carving while I headed up the pulling out slimy guts gang. You can quickly see who the kids take after by watching them carve pumpkins. Timo, like myself, loved the idea of playing the insides and seeds, while Cameron is a spitting image of her Daddy in that she wanted to draw on the pumpkin and wanted nothing to do with the "guts" and getting her hands dirty.


And the kids were so helpful cleaning up afterward...

After their nap it was time to get my little scarecrows ready and head to the Harvest Fest. Timo was a little slow in waking up...needless to say it was difficult for him to have his clothes taken off and new clothes up on. Cameron wasn't really into all the yarn on her clothes and started pulling it all off. I had to bribe them with cookies just to get their clothes on and stand still for a few pictures.



But once we got to the Harvest Fest it was an evening full of fun. Cameron had successfully pulled out every piece of yarn off her clothes on the way over so she was just a hillbilly by the time we got there. But no matter, she still had a blast getting her face painted, doing arts and crafts, drinking juice and playing the games.



Timo was a crazy man all night running around playing with the balloons, balls, bowling and eating his body weight in popcorn! Whenever we couldn't find him we just looked at the ball toss game and he was there...




All in all it was a fun Halloween. We got to carve a pumpkin, spend the evening with our friends having fun! I wonder how many years I can put off the whole trick or treating thing???