Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Friday, October 31, 2008

Trick-or-treating in Indiana



We were planning on trick-or-treating Friday night with neighbor kids but events beyond my control (my grandfather passed away, and his funeral was on Saturday) dictated that we be in Decatur, Indiana, October 31, Halloween night.

I figured that we would just take the kids trick-or-treating in Decatur, and the kids would be happy. After we arrived in Indiana, we found out that Decatur did their trick-or-treating the night before! Craziness! Luckily, Indiana is one of those places where there are lots of small towns in a small area. We were sent to Berne, Indiana to go trick-or-treating. No luck there either, they trick-or-treated the night before. So one last try in Ossion, Indiana. We found a nice neighborhood and went to five houses. This was enough for Colin and Nathan, and everyone was happy.

In Berne, we went to McDonald's for dinner and saw some Amish having dinner there too. I find them very interesting people, and the kids loved the horse and buggies that they ride in. Idea for next year's International Day!

Colin was obviously a ghost. Nathan was supposed to be a ghost too, but at the last minute decided he wasn't going to wear a sheet. So Nathan wore the fire hat that we got at Firehouse Subs (dinner on the way to Indiana!). Amazing how things work out sometimes.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

More pumpkins

So time for a trip to the pumpkin patch to replace the melting pumpkin. We got three more pumpkins!







Saturday, October 25, 2008

Melting pumkin

Apparently we carved our pumpkin too early, whereas it is full of mold and melting.

October 20, 2008

October 21, 2008

October 22, 2008

October 25, 2008 (Nathan stuck pieces of a broken pot into the pumpkin at this point.)

Shortly after this picture we went to the pumpkin patch to pick out more pumpkins to replace this one. Colin said that this pumpkin looked sad. I agree.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Pumpkin carving

First the boys painted little pumpkins, then we did the big pumpkin. After I finished carving the pumpkin, Bob took the seeds and roasted them.

Nathan painting his little pumpkin.


Colin painting his little pumpkin.


The big pumpkin before we started carving.


The first cut.


Yeah, the top is off!


Yucky seeds.


Colin reaches in to help.


Nathan reaches in to help too.


Carving the mouth.


Done.