Halloween 2008

Ty the rockstar, Caitlynn the fairy, Kenny the doc

Caitlynn and her funny face pumpkin

Ty getting his hands dirty with pumpkin guts

Picking the perfect pumpkins

We had a pretty drizzly Halloween this year, but in place of snow... we'll take it!! We started our Halloween festivities this year by going to a local pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect pumpkins for carving! Each of the kids picked out their own pumpkin, knowing they were going to have to be an "active" part of the carving process... none of the kids too much like the digging out of the insides! They did great though, especially Ty who really got into it! He did his whole pumpkin including a really cool carving of wolves howling at the moon. Caitlynn chose to do a funny face, and Kenny chose to do a spider with a web, which Chad ended up finishing because it was so intricate. He did a great job with it though, all three turned out great and were all very different!

For trick-or-treating festivities we headed to the Schmidt neighborhood. Kenny was a cardiology doctor, Ty was a rock star and Caitlynn was a fairy ("because Monica LOVES fairies")!! They collected a ton of candy and had a blast going door to door.

Check out the link for some more pics...http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=bqyul5jc.2np8eymk&x=0&y=5oy5bj&localeid=en_US

The only thing missing this year was not having our Brando here to come along! He is spending his Halloween with Papa and Mike hunting for the first time in the mountains of Colorado. I am sure he is having a good time... and hopefully I'll get some pictures and a story to post in the near future about that new adventure!