Trick or Treat

Halloween night we stayed at home and handed out candy to the trick or treaters. Our neighborhood stays pretty busy on Halloween so it was good entertainment for the kiddos. All 3 kids loved handing out candy to the other trick or treaters. I was a proud mommy at their willingness to share!

This Year's Pumpkins
Nora inspecting the candy

such a cute Pebbles

they LOVED the pumpkins

Hill and Jack

a little trick or treating

"hold on to your buddies--so you don't get lost"

the loot

Happy Halloween!

we hid all of our favorite candy in nora's bag...it was so heavy she could barely manage to carry it around.

just sillies

learning about pumpkins and things

The 3 Day Rot

So i've said before that pumpkins don't last long here in HI, especially after they've been carved. Here is my case in point.

18 hours after carving--a little bit of shrivel and sag36 hours after carving--much more shriveling and sagging and the pumpkin is starting to lean and sag

60 hours after carving---it's life is pretty much over.
the pumpkin was tilting over and very soft
And this all happened inside. We carved our pumpkins for Halloween night the night before and it was finished--and i mean gnat infested and sunken in within 24 hours of being outside.

Conclusion: Pumpkins and Halloween are FOR SURE made for cooler weather.

Pumpkin Patch

We finally had some time to go visit the pumpkin patch on the Saturday before Halloween. It was pretty hot--which is a bit contradictory to picking out pumpkins and hayrides, but we still had a really good time. Next time we will remember to bring cash so we don't have to return a pumpkin to get enough cash to take a hayride! oops.

Daddy, I like this one.

"Ma Mees Pumpkin?" (we think that means 'please, i want') PUMPKIN!

pumpkin sculptures
pumpkins are serious business

the three cutest pumpkin kiddos ever

princess norabird

Jackie Boy

she is SO EXCITED about that one!

just my little family

My Handsome Boy

looking for the perfect pumpkin

on the hayride

Nora really loved Farmer Corny

Pumpkin Carving with the Aunties.

Auntie Sarah and Auntie Jenn are my good friends who are always there to help me out whenever i need a sitter--therefore the kiddos LOVE them. Aunite Sarah brought a couple of pumpkins over last Wednesday to carve with the kids. Holden and Nora were SO intereted. Auntie Jenn loves the smell of pumpkins
Holden helping get the guts out

he's a pro at this

Nora wanted to smell it too

a pumkin hat!