Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Halloween 2011

Halloween is definitely one of our favorite holidays of the year. Is it even considered a holiday? Well it should be! :) Our halloween started a few days early with carving out the pumpkins. The kids love the carving part but not really the emptying of the pumpkin. With a little help, they managed to prep their pumpkins and this year, Gavin got to take part in it! He loved carrying around a big spoon and playing with the seeds and stringy insides of the pumpkin.


This pic is a little blurry but too cute not to post, see his top teeth coming in finally?
Owen carving shapes into the back of his pumpkin:


The final product, not too shabby, right:

Then we continued our halloween weekend by going to a party at my cousin's house. We were all excited to dress up! It was a lot of fun and this is probably the first year that the kids have worn their costumes more than once! In fact this year, they wore them a total of four times, talk about getting my money's worth! :D
May's cute halloween decor:



The cutest spider ever:


He's not as high as it looks, :P

Then finally, halloween night came! And you know how much Justin LOVES to scare the trick-or-treaters! Well this year, we put our canopy up in front of our garage, blocked off the front portion of our garage with some tarps and Justin set up a scary chop shop type of scene with cut off heads, fingers, feet and body bags. The only light came from the candles in the pumpkins and a strobe light aimed at Justin. And of course with some scary music, the scene was set. He said a lot of kids didn't even make it into the canopy to see what was inside so next year we are going to mellow it out a little. We'll see!


So imagine this picture really dark with just the lights from the pumpkins on the right, would you approach that man in the left corner just to get candy? Haha!
I finally remembered to take a picture of them trick-or-treating towards the end. Owen was getting a little tired, can you tell?

Fall Traditions

Going to Bates Nut Farm has become one of our annual family traditions. We love going there to see the many pumpkins, themed scarecrows, petting zoo and also go on the tractor hayride. It was a pretty warm day when we went, even though it was toward the end of October already. I guess that's your typical Southern California weather for you though! My brother, two cousins and their families joined us and it's always great getting our families together and seeing all the kids play together.







My very prego cousin, Carolyn who had her baby boy the next day:

Posing with the Brownie scarecrow:

And Jack Skellington:





On the tractor hayride:

Such cute kids:

Gavin with my brother, Mike (his Ninong):



Owen was ready for a nap: