11/11/2009

Happy Pumpkin Day!

We took full advantage of Halloween falling on a Saturday this year! Especially because we were gone the previous two weekends, I feel like we sort missed out on a lot of our annual Halloween festivities. But we got a lot accomplished in one day!

First we headed to Marshall's Farm Market to pick out some baby pumpkins to go along with the bigger pumpkins the girls picked out with Nana and Papi during their visit.





Andrew found a GIANT pumpkin (or the GREAT PUMPKIN, if you will) at a pumpkin patch we drove by. It weighed as much as Lily! 39 pounds! We spent the afternoon making glitter pumpkins, carving the larger pumpkins, and then getting ready for trick-or-treating. Here's a slide show of more of our farm market photos and our afternoon:

Just before trick-or-treating:




The trick-or-treat gang (l-r): Isabelle, Claire, Hope, Sumi (Isabelle's friend), Ella and Lily. We also picked up our neighbors Noor and Farah along the way. So we were running around the neighborhood with 8 kids and 3 adults. It was a lot of fun as I realized we knew so many more neighbors this year than we did last year (when I practically knew no one!). Andrew even told me we had a few people come to the house who seemed disappointed to find him opening the door with the candy. They asked, "Is Holly around?" ;-)

After trick-or-treating, we headed over to B-Pa's house to trick-or-treat at a couple more houses (just the neighbors we know) and to help Sam (my step-brother) celebrate his birthday:


The two kitties cuddling with each other. ;-)

And just chilling at the end of the day.

3 comments:

Cynthia said...

Your gils are so adorable! Too cute for words. =)

Kyle and Renee said...

The pictures are soo good!! And, their costumes are adorable. Looks like such a great Halloween. Oh, and love the glitter pumpkins!

Kirsten said...

I love the picture of the two kitties and the one of the girls sans costumes but still wearing their animal faces.