{HALLOWEEN 2011}

In Utah, it's a HUGE deal to take the famdam to a local farmer's punkin patch to hand pick THE perfect orange gourd/vegetable/fruit* to carve.  

(The funny thing is that the fields are replenished daily by hired help.  I mean, they literally truck in punkins and lay them on the ground to look like they just happened to grow there over night with no root system or vine)

*there is a major debate on what a punkin truly is. 

I honestly don't give a crap what a punkin is....

after a week it's considered trash to me.

We carved our hand picked punkins on Saturday late afternoon.  It was warm enough to do it outside, which thrilled the livin' shit out of me!!!  I hate cleaning up punkin guts off my floors and counters.  Doesn't it seem like they have a glue-like composition  in the chemical make-up that adheres permanently to what ever surface it lands on???

I printed a few stencils from the internet and the boys chose their favs.

Jax chose a bat.

He worked very hard with meticulous hand saw skills!

We made one little oopsie.....

we cut around the bat as well.

This was not a good idea because the bat fell right through the middle of the punkin.

Thank Gawd for a screw gun and drywall screws!

The reattachment process was easy and painless.

River chose the baseball face from "Nightmare before Christmas."

We decided to just cut out the face and to NOT carve the round ball head due to the tragic "bat fall in" catastrophe from the younger boy. 

Jax had his heart set on being an ASSassin.

I discouraged the assassin costume by buying him this "Gangster" get-up.

For some reason, he felt the need to tuck in the shirt/coat thingy into the elastic waste band.

Without knowing it, he went as a "nerd" gangsta!

He still had remnants of green hair spray stuck to his scalp, so really this Halloween Jax was a

"LEPRECHAUN-DWEEB-GANGSTER"

This was Riv's first year of not dressing up and partaking in the sport of trick-r-treating.

He and I ate caramel apples, discussed the world's problems and handed out $30 worth of candy to our new neighbors.  I've never seen so many kids in one city block before!!!  It was super fun and Riv was sweet and adorable to watch as he greeting the little goblins at the door :)

on a more serious note:

I was grateful to have both my kids home, warm and safe by 9 pm.  My heart goes out the the families of the 3 teens that were hit by cars last night.  

What a true Halloween nightmare.

PEOPLE!!!!! 

WE MUST BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL AND CAUTIOUS WHILE DRIVING BY AREAS FULL OF CHILDREN!!!!

SLOW YOUR LIFE DOWN AND KEEP KIDS SAFE DAMMIT!