Frightfully Fit For Fun!

It's October! The weather is cooler, the ghouls are testing the waters, and I am so ready for the fun of fall festivals! I've been eating concord grapes, eyeing caramel apples, and downing Pumpkin Lattes in preparation for the season. We'll be hitting up Sea World's Halloween Party, Epcot's Food & Wine Festival, and Syrup Sopping in Alabama before the month is over.

Since the activities for this year are just getting started, I took a look back at some highlights from last year's Halloween. These layouts were created using papers and elements from Fright Night kit and Fright Night Special Papers by Courtney's Digiscrappin'.

Trevor made up his own costume last year.

We started our trick-or-treat route at the mall, Lisa met us straight after work.

And not all of these pictures are from last year, although Logan and Connor as Tigger and Eeyore are, but this is a fun collaboration of costumes.

This year Logan is getting into the holiday spirit, although it's still a little too scary at times.

I found the perfect mask at Target, it's Batman (and Lisa can get Captain America). But I just found out that though we're allowed to dress up for work this year, masks are strictly prohibited. I can't be Batman without a mask! Back to the drawing board I guess. I still think it would be completely awesome to show up to Logan and Connor's house as Batman, though.

Orange You Glad It's Almost Halloween?

Speaking of orange, I’m just glad we’re past another weekend of College Football and one win closer to the SEC Championship game. C’mon Gators, hang in there! The game against Mississippi State was a nail biter, much closer than it should have been. And I love my Gators, but even I think that one touchdown call they got could have gone either way. Next stop - Jacksonville, where we meet up with Georgia.

Lisa invited me to carve pumpkins with the kids on Saturday, remembering my comment that I hadn’t had the chance to carve a pumpkin in years. For some reason I got it in my head that we were going to a pumpkin patch to pick out the pumpkins. I’m really not sure why I thought that, maybe I’ve seen one too many pumpkin patch layouts posted in the ACOT gallery, lol. Anyway, just before I went over to Lisa’s house on Saturday she mentioned that she was at Wal-Mart and would be home shortly. But it wasn’t until I had parked in front of her house and was walking up to her door when it occurred to me that she had probably bought the pumpkins at Wal-Mart. My suspicions were confirmed when I saw 4 pumpkins sitting on her kitchen table. Hopefully I’m right about people not paying attention when I talk, because I know I told at least a few people that I was headed to the pumpkin patch, including John.

There were 4 pumpkins – one for each of the kids and one for me. First we had to cut off the tops and gut them, and we had a great time tormenting Lisa with the slimy mess of pumpkin guts as we mashed them down into the provided pans. Afterwards I had to separate the seeds out so Lisa could bake them for us to eat as our after-pumpkin-carving snack. The kids wanted me to make a pumpkin pie from the remaining pumpkin innards, but Lisa insisted that you have to buy special pumpkins to make pies. I’ve never heard of such a thing, but I didn’t have a recipe for pumpkin pie and she doesn’t have internet so I let her throw it all away.

We had a book of patterns to choose from when it came time to carve our pumpkins. Trinity chose a happy cat, Taylor chose a Goblin, Trevor chose a skull & crossbones, and I let Trinity pick my pattern out. She chose the Jack-O’Lantern for me, and I let her help me carve it after she was finished with her own. Trevor finished his first and went on to carve the back side, then headed over to play the Wii. Taylor took more time on her pumpkin, but also carved out both sides and joined Trevor in front of the TV. Trinity and I were the last to finish up. It drove the kids crazy that I took pictures of the finished pumpkins, but how could I resist those works of art? Here they are:

Supply List:
Kit – Falloween and Falloween Add On by Kay Eflin
Font - Memo

Lisa insisted I take my beautiful pumpkin home with me, so it’s sitting in front of our front door. And decomposing fast, I’m not sure if it’s going to make it to Halloween. I guess you need colder weather to preserve pumpkins. Lisa says their pumpkins aren’t faring much better.