The kids were anxious to carve their Deanna Rose pumpkins.
It was serious business.
You can tell it's getting real when his bottom lip pops out.
Scooby Doo Pajamas increase one's design skills.
Tom helped navigate the tricky spots.
He was under a lot of pressure to get it right...
I interrupt this post to feast on the deliciousness of my Kar-Bear.
She is such a beautiful girl...inside and out.
I thought that the urge to gobble them up would fade once they were out of diapers.
Wrong.
It only intensifies.
Carving Perfection. Each pumpkin matched the carver's personality. Spot on.
Things got spookier as Halloween came upon us.
We have the tradition of Trick-Or-Treating with Courtney's family.
For this years dinner party, I thought I would tap into my meat sculpting abilities and surprise everyone with "ratloaf" for dinner.
I made a huge Monster Rat...
And individual baby rats for the kids.
The finished product...
Some kids were amused...
Others were confused...
And one was downright disturbed.
That rat got the stink eye.
Despite all hesitation (from children AND adults)...everyone dug in and decided it was the best bloody ratloaf they have ever tasted.
The Trick-Or-Treating commenced.
The boys were all Ninjas and the girls were Batgirl, Robin, and an Eskimo Princess.
Those Ninjas have some juicy bickies.
I kept hearing a gagging noise throughout the night.
It sounded like a cat trying to cough up a hairball.
I eventually figured out that it was Bryce, being gagged by his Ninja mask.
As it turns out - he has the same gag reflex that his mother and grandmother have.
He eventually ditched the mask and the gagging stopped.
I think Bradley had the same issue...but he opted for hyper salivation as opposed to gagging.
This very picture makes me gag something fierce.
*There was another funny "happening" that night that we must document. This is at the risk of people thinking/finding out that I am a complete nut job...but alas, I do not care. For prosperity!
While the kids were trick or treating...I happened to have a tampon in my pocket. I thought I would play a trick on Courtney's husband and stick it in one of his kid's buckets...so when he was later checking candy - he would find it and be freaked out - thinking someone handed them out for Trick-Or-Treating. I snuck it into Colin's bucket. He walked up to the next house...and just as the old woman opened the door - he discovered the tampon. He took it out and yelled, "What IS this????" ----- Karah eagerly announced, "THAT'S A TAMPON!" ---right in front of the old woman.
She quickly shut the door after a quick toss of the candy.
We laughed the entire way home...with Courtney's boys asking what a tampon was.
We walked and walked and walked...until their bags were ready to break.
We had one last stop to make to G-Ma and G-Pa.
We all returned, too tired to even think about candy.
It was a fun and educational Halloween
...one they won't soon forget.
And THAT is the BEST kind.
