Carved pumpkins

It was really hard to get back into the Halloween spirit since the snow had us home bound and unable to go to our friend’s annual Halloween party. Our costumes sadly hung from their hangers being unworn and the cookies I spent hours on went uneaten in the fridge. Having no electricity made everything difficult, boring and cold. How did the pioneers possibly survive without the internet?!

David loved gutting out the pumpkins

Carefully carving out the outline.

David and I were determined to have some kind of Halloween fun. So in the sunlight streaming in from the kitchen, we carved pumpkins.

This is what I usually look like when I'm concentrating

It’s a tradition that my family has done every Halloween and what I plan to do with my kids one day. We choice our designs and went to work.

David’s pumpkin! Isn’t this little bat adorable! I love his eyes. This was David’s first carved pumpkin. So proud of him!!

My pumpkin. This design took me FOREVER to carve out. I have been doing pumpkins like this for a few years now and wanted to challenge myself this year. I thought it came out pretty darn good!

These look great on the deck of the house! At least there will be some kind of lights going on our street.

9th Annual Family trip to Salem, Mass!

There may have been a lot of confusion, stress and craziness trying to plan the annual trip to Salem this year. But we managed to pull it off successfully. In fact this may have been the BEST trip to Salem…EVER! David loading up the mini van

David and I packed up the 8 mini-van and picked up my family. Because my Dad had some car problems, we needed to all carpool in David’s parents mini van. Work fine for me! I liked that we all got together instead of separate cars.

Dad posing with a witch

I love the differant looks on their faces

Finaly we hit bumper to bumper traffic on the highway heading to Salem. This time we sailed right though. There was no traffic at all. Maybe it was because it was the middle of October, the fact that it was Sunday afternoon or maybe we just got lucky. Whatever the reason, everyone was happy to have made it to Salem without sitting in traffic for hours.

This year we really enjoyed Salem. We saw new stores, watched a motorcycle parade and didn’t have to fight our way through the crowd. The weather was beautiful, not too warm and not too cold. It was a great day!

Tried to take a pictures of all of us

Pumpkin decorating contest

My personal favorate pumpkin! Miss Piggy!


A creepy demon Ernie who David felt the need to hug

The awesome zombie telatubbies. This is what nightmares are made of! Espcially the look on David's face!! Yikes!






My Dad with Frankie




Goofing around in the graveyard



In the graveyard.

The tree which several witches were hung from.

Got a picture of everyone except me. David kindly posed for me.

Love the look on everyones face as they realize what David was doing behind them. Too funny!

Not sure what everyone was looking at....

David the Gray with Gandolf the White

Got to see a motorcycle parade!

Eating lunch on the roof of the parking garage. Mmm cheesey (private joke)!

Love this picture of us! We had so much fun!!

Monster Mash 2009

I have not gone to a Halloween party in a long long time. For the last 8 years all I did for Halloween was order a pizza and hand candy out to Trick-or-Treaters. Not very fun at all. So when I heard that my friends were going to throw a Halloween party, I was very excited.

Going to the Halloween store with my friend I saw almost right away what I wanted to be. It was a cheerleading outfit that said U University on it. Across that was the work "Suck". It was perfect for how I felt lately. I wanted to be something dark and Gothic so this was perfect.

The costume was a tad too short for me so I bought some silver and black material and made it longer. I also bought some black leggings, striped socks, goth jewelry and wore my hair in pigtails. Much cuter in real life.

Me and my friend, Azad, who was a magicians assistant. You can see I made my skin pale and went really heavy on the eye liner. I tried to make my bangs all cute but they looked weird like this after a few hours. I also bought some fake piercings and had a lip ring and nose ring. Extremely uncomfortable to wear.

On a side note: I noticed in almost all the pictures I smiled like this. I thought it looked better to smile with my mouth closed but I look much better smiling and showing my teeth. I look like I am in pain here!