Happy Halloween!

The Knill pumkin family- every year we carve our pumpkins and then tell ghost stories.

I got made fun of because my pumpkin didn't have a nose
Todd made his pumpkin look all drippy- kind of how he looks before his morning coffee... ha ha

Little Gavin required daddy's help with his pumpkin

Lauren carved hers all by herself! There's a moon, a bat, a wolf and a tree

Hunter's was cool because it was this oblong pumpkin that sank in in the middle- you can kind of see that here after he carved it too

Gavin and I spent a chilly morning the Monday before Halloween at the pumpkin patch

Lauren and Max started trading as soon as they got home. Max is her BFF.

The first house Gavin trick or treated at was Max's. His sister Marionne watches him a lot and we all call her Gavin's "girlfriend". Here Sunny came to greet Gav at the door.

Lauren was a gargoyle- Todd bought PVC piping to form the wings and then sewed the fabric (see earlier post about "Mr. and Mrs. Homemaker") Lauren could even move the wings and terrified every little kid on the block!! That's my sweet princess pea under there! Lovely isn't she?

Poor Hunter had been under threat that he wouldn't celebrate Halloween if he didn't do some things we requested of him. . . guess who spent the evening watching old westerns with Grandma? Poor Hunter. He did have fun dressing up in jeans, a flannel and a scary mask then he sat silent while kids came to the door only to scare the bajeezes out of them!

I had to work but it was fun. We all bought TONS of food and I had a very pleasant patient who gave birth to a lovely little girl. I think I gained 10 pounds that night! So will these kids if we let them eat all the candy they collected- which is why we donate half to the local food pantry and use a lot of it in December when we make our gingerbread house.