We celebrated on Saturday by going to the store and loading up on candy and pumpkins. I can't remember the last time we bought straight, packaged, candy. We had to do it. It wouldn't be Halloween without a good, sugar induced stomach ache.
When we got home we set to work on our pumpkins. We decided to carve some self portraits. This endeavor ended up leading to some important self discovery. I learned that I don't have the patience, foresight, or hand strength for elaborate pumpkin carving. I was also reminded that I am married to a stubborn, stubborn man. When he sets his mind on something, he sees it through. Even if it means three hours hard labor and an additional outing to the store in search of the right pumpkin carving kit. In all fairness though, the completed project was quite brilliant. Probably the highlight of the holiday.
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| This is the original picture that Brig used as a stencil for his masterpiece. |
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| The finished project. Isn't it crazy?! It looks just like him! |
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| Next to his pumpkin clone. |
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| Next to my lame-o pumpkin. If you rotated it slightly to the right you would see my attempted self portrait. I gave up. Please bear in mind that we had not yet purchased the fancy carving set so I was using a steak knife the whole time. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.:) |
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| Again, so crazy! I think I feel a new Halloween tradition coming on... |
Once the pumpkin project was completed we watched some scary Halloween movies and scarfed down our candy stash. Brig found the movies that gave me nightmares in my childhood- vivid, I still remember them, nightmares. Witches and Pinnochio. Not appropriate for children but now in all my maturity I can handle them. Ah, nothing like watching a scary movie with a cute boy. Happy Halloween.:)
5 comments:
Sounds like a fun night! I made Scott watch "something wicked this way comes" and his only comment was..."I can't believe the kind of movies your parents let you watch as kids!"
haha! That is way funny because we watched that on Sunday and that's exactly what I said to Brig. If Pinocchio scared me as a child that movie would have traumatized me for life!
What the heck!?!?! That pumpkin is insane! I think next year we need to up our ante!!
haahahahahahahahahaahHAAHAHAHHahahhAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Oh holy crap!
That is totally unbelievable! He's not stubborn. He's anal retentive!! Ok, maybe he's stubborn too. And for the record, I have not shown MY kids the "Something Wicked" movie, because I don't want to be that mean to my kids. It scared the crap out of me!!
{of course, we can put in a 'good' movie, that has a baby moniter and a corn field any day!}
haha didn't taylor cry in signs? i love your pumpkin ali, don't worry:) glad you had some fun with that stubborn boy!
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