Pumpkins, Potatoes, and Projects

Halloween is big here! I don't know if it just our neighborhood, but people go all out! Decorations, haunted houses, tons of trick-or-treaters, and tons of candy. It was Curly and Lou's first experience trick-or-treating at houses and we all had a blast. People pull their freestanding fire pits onto their driveway, put out a buffet of food, pull up the camp chairs and chill. There were lots of "three for one" houses. Three neighbors "chillin" at one house, but each with their own bucket of candy and they aren't shy about giving it out either. When I was little you took once piece and said thank you, but two is the new one, and a handful is pretty normal. Curly and Lou came home with plenty of booty for the whole family...

Hmm...which one do I eat first?!?!

This pumpkin took about five minutes to carve, speedy compared to our monster pumpkins of the past. It's so cute and little.

This is our huge Halloween sweet potato that my Phoenician uncle grew. That is a large butcher knife stuck in it! Impressive eh - We made fries and a lot of potato soup out of that baby! Three meals from one potato.

And here we have our Date night/Halloween project. We painted Curly and Lou's room. Two walls were blue and the other two still had the nasty, grayish, dull paint that the contractor put on. Curly REALLY wanted pink, so we compromised on pink and green (which we put on the lower third). When we first finished it looked like an easter egg and we went to bed hoping it would look better in the morning - fortunately it did. Finished project pictures to come shortly.