Halloween 2011 Part 3

Alright - It's time for...HALLOWEEN NIGHT! I, personally, am completely on board with moving Halloween so that it is always on a Saturday because coming home from work and trying to get ready for trick or treaters and make dinner and all of that madness was pretty stressful! I can't imagine getting your kids ready to take out trick-or-treating on top of that.

Since Christian is so little and I didn't want a bunch of candy around the house, I decided to skip trick or treating this year. Instead, I picked up three homegrown pumpkins, courtesy of Elena, and brought them home as a surprise for Jared. Apparently, he loves carving pumpkins...something I didn't know about him! We carved pumpkins, ate homemade tomatillo enchiladas and passed out candy to our cute trick or treaters. It was the first year that I have lived in a house since I moved out of my parents'  house, and we got TONS of trick or treaters...SO FUN!

Christian was helping me get the newspaper ready to lay out for pumpkin carving!

He picked his pumpkin!

"Seriously Mom? You are such a weirdo"

"Okay, I changed my mind, I want to play with it"

Like Father, Like Son

Christian pretty much liked the newspaper A LOT more than carving pumpkins.

Here's the first finished pumpking

Daddy hard at work

Here are the finished products!

After we were all cleaned up from carving the pumpkins, Christian helped me hand out candy to the trick or treaters

I absolutely LOVE these pictures! Don't worry - I didn't give all the melted, slobbery ones to any trick or treaters ;)

All in all, we had an absolutely WONDERFUL Halloween. I have noticed that holidays are a lot more fun when you have kids, and now I can't wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's hard to believe that they are just around the corner.