Trick-or-Treat!

Well I must say that Halloween was so much better this year because David was here to enjoy it with me instead of being deployed! We decided to carve a pumpkins a tad early so we popped in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and started carving away! Here are our pumpkins, with the help of a stencil packet :)





We were excited with the outcome of our jack-o-lanterns but quickly learned that carving them early was not such a great idea. Within a day there was some lovely green and black mold forming on the inside and within a couple of days they were really soft and mushy. We put them outside hoping they'd make it till Halloween but by that night...here's what they looked like.

After we got a good laugh at our situation, we headed out and purchased round two of our pumpkins. This time we waited until Halloween day and finished the carving right before our street filled with the sounds of little Avatar's and Princesses. Here are the final results of our "round 2" pumpkins, pretty neat right?

Our neighborhood has a tradition of sitting in the driveway to pass out candy so we set up shop at the bottom of our driveway and passed out tons of candy. We didn't even let the cool weather stop us...we just sipped hot cocoa and snuggled under a blanket while David took the opportunity to scare our "older" trick-or-treaters...pretty classic actually. Here we are ready for our trick-or-treaters :)

Now our Halloween decorations are packed away and the turkeys have taken over...to be honest, what I'm most looking forward to this Thanksgiving is not the turkey on Thanksgiving day, but the Creamed Turkey made with the leftovers :)

Love from a warmer-than-usual San Diego!