Halloween Par-Tay Day 3.

Holy smokes Halloween came and went and now it's over. Time to take down all decorations and move on to the next holiday....Lil' Miss's birthday! But let's not get too ahead of ourselves here. Time to show off some pumpkin action! We did 4 pumpkins this year. Simple pumpkins, but effective I would say. We did try a new technique. Painting. Although it wasn't that hard to do, it's still something that I haven't done on a pumpkin before. I'm a bit of a traditionalist. As much as I like new techniques, I always have one pumpkin carved in the traditional, old school pumpkin face. Let's let the pictures do the talking...shall we?????

 BOO!

 Traditional.

 Pumpkin face and a black kitty cat! Nifty, huh?

Ooooh, it's that nice witch again. Only she doesn't appear to be dressed in her costume!!
So last night we were ready to rock. Candy ready....

 I know you laugh at the large amount of candy here....but after last year I needed to be prepared!

 The nice witch ready to hit the streets to trick or treat. Ok mostly treat.

Heading down the block with a full bucket ALREADY! We really didn't end up going to far. We wanted to be back in time to see the fireworks at 8 pm. And we didn't get out the door until 630 pm. We were in such a flustery rush to get going that I made her race out the door without shoes on. Good grief. We were heading down the sidewalk and I got "Mommy, I don't have my shoes on!" Yeesh. So back through the throngs of trick or treaters to get into the house for shoes. Then we were set. We went around the block, emptied the bucket at home, then went down one more street. So 2 full buckets of candy later and that was enough. We were out for just over an hour and Lil' Miss wanted to help Dad give out candy anyhow. Our neighborhood really gets into the swing of Halloween. Lots of houses dressed up and even a couple of haunted houses with loud noises, strobe lights, fog machines, large scary monsters and tons of cobwebs! It was spectacular. No wonder kids come by the carloads to trick or treat this area! I don't think we got as many kids as last year, but my estimation is about 350 kids from about 545pm until 800pm. After the fireworks were over, we shut 'er down. Still have some candy left, but Dad was sweating giving out the candy and he was done. And the Lil' Moose (Mr.Mister) really needed to go to bed. He stayed home to help out Dad, but proceeded to really just try to escape out the front door every time it opened....which was constantly. So that was that. And now it's over for another year.