There are a few traditions that we stick to, year after year. When the kids were little, I used to feel like we had to add new traditions all the time. Now that I’m jaded experienced, I'm more interested in keeping the best and junking the rest.
Carving jack-o-lanterns falls into the "keeping the best" category. So here is this year's edition of the carvings! Note that Emma's simple happy face (bottom right) is JUST her style, and she loves it. Darcie's (bottom left) has her name personalized into the mouth of it.
In the interest of true confessions, here's mine. I didn't carve my pumpkin this year. I KNOW. But I really did just run out of time. And I was throwing a Seminary party during the family's carving time. I was planning to do some variation of a ghost, since my pumpkin was white.... but oh well. So this is how our front porch looked, ... including my lovely white-and-pristine pumpkin on the left ..... on Halloween night:
Emma was a little princess that night. Yes, literally. Snow White was passé. NOW she was Cinderella. I completely spaced any "glass slippers" for her, though. She never missed them. I love her ear-to-ear smile here:
We dashed over to the church for the 45-minute long Trunk-or-Treat. (Where Emma got pretty cold -- the real Cinderella must have had a HEATED pumpkin coach. My festive teenage daughters (and Alyssa's friend!) volunteered to man the candy dispensing station at the back of the Suburban:
Darcie decided to go in costume at the last minute. It was so last-minute, she wore the same last-minute costume that Alyssa had worn to a party two nights previous. It's amazing what a white sheet and 9 feet of metallic ribbon can do for you. (Oh, and a dutch braid across the head with metallic headbands.) Voila! Instant goddess!!
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