Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza

Maybe that's a slight exaggeration - we did only carve one pumpkin - but he was a biggie!

Before carving

During carving

After carving - can you see the only candle I had that I could put in the pumpkin - in it's lovely flowered holder?  Can you believe I didn't have 1 darn votive or tea light candle in my house?  Ridiculous!

You get the full effect...ooooh - scary!

And he provided a little snack we enjoyed afterwards.  In fact, I'm snacking on a few that were left over as I post this to tide me over until dinner. :)

We Did the Mash

The Monster Mash...

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It was a graveyard smash!  Happy Halloween!

Hooray for Sisters!

I got to spend some great time with my sister this morning, so I wanted to give a shout out to her.  No matter how long time goes between spending time with her, it is never awkward or weird...we can pick up right where we left off like we just saw one another the day before.  She'd drop everything to help me out if I needed it & I would do the same for her.  Work, kids, and just the general busy-ness of life mean that we don't see each other as often as we'd like (even though we only live a measly 15-20 minutes from one another!), but I'm so thankful for the times we do get to spend together.  Love you Kristen!

On an aside - this is one of the only "grown-up" pictures I could find of us - from our brother's wedding 6 years ago!  We really should pose together sometime soon...or maybe not since we'd just look older. :)

Do you remember?

Did you have this much fun in Kindergarten?  I dont' think I did.  KCFD Firefighters visited yesterday.  Not only did the kids learn about fire safety (I got a stop-drop & roll demo, as well as an army crawl through imaginary smoke demo) they also got to check out a real-live fire truck and watch the firefighters spray water from it.  Believe me - if you know any 5 year old boys, this was a day straight from heaven!  Today was a field trip to Kaliedoscope.  Luke came home with lots of treasures.  I remember going myself as a kid & what a wonderful place it is.  With the Halloween, make that FALL party next week, October is shaping up to be a pretty great month to be in Kindergarten!

PS - Thanks to Mrs. Borsella for being so great about posting pictures to her website so I can see how much fun Luke is having!

Happy Birthday!

To the one I love.