Day: October 31, 2010

We had a wonderful Halloween this year. This year Falyn was Barbie in a Mermaid Talia, Kayli was a purple faerie, Aidan was Iron Man, the twins were Transformers and Talia was Ginny from Harry Potter. They went all over the neighborhood and brought back way too much candy.

Since we had a pile of gravel and sand from the unfinished pool construction, we decided to turn it into a spooky graveyard.

It was a huge hit with everyone. We got a ton of complements on it and even had people asking for permission to take pictures in front of it.

We carved our pumpkins this afternoon. The kids always love this Halloween tradition and are now quite good at carving the pumpkins on their own. Falyn is the only one that needed a lot of help. We had a neighbor walk by and comment on how much work it was to carve all those pumpkins. It may be a lot of work, but it is also a lot of fun. I think it is so important for families to have traditions like this. These are the thinks they will remember when they are grown and I hope they will pass on these traditions when they have families of their own.

The finished pumpkins:

Talia and Kayli’s Cinderella’s Carriage pumpkin

Aidan

Falyn

Jared

Riley