Halloween Fun!!

We (Don) carved Jack O'Lanterns from the pumpkins we picked at the patch. The kids drew faces on the pumpkins and Don carved them. Unfortunately, Melanie dropped her pumpkin on the way to the car & it cracked, and Courtney put her pumpkin on the back porch - so both of those pumpkins rotted away super fast before we could carve them. So we did two sided pumpkins with Emma's & Dayton's pumpkin. Each kid got draw a face on one side of the pumpkin. I think they turned out pretty cute!!

One side of the Jack O'Lanterns.....

and now the other side.

Dayton - showing off his Jack O'Lantern - it matches his Jack O'Lantern Night Light (OK so Don helped Dayton with drawing the face too).

Courtney is showing off her Jack O'Lantern - it matches her Jack O'Lantern Night Light as well.

Emma's Masterpiece

.... and here's Melanie's scary Jack O'Lantern.

I had cooked & froze pumpkin from last year, so I figured I better get busy and use what I already had, before I cooked and froze more pumpkin this year -- otherwise we would have a whole freezer full of pumpkin. So I made about 6 loaves of pumpkin bread and a pumpkin cake (shaped like a pumpkin) - we called it "Pumpkin, pumpkin cake!"



While my mom was up, she helped me make Halloween pillowcases for the kids. I bought material for Fall/Thanksgiving pillowcases, but haven't had a chance to make them yet -- they'll probably get them next year...