The twin boys who dressed up as skunks last year came as spiders this year. Very cute!
I also took in some pumpkins from our garden again so we could have a "Guess the Weight of the Pumpkin" contest for the kids and teens. Below is the teen pumpkin- it ended up weighing about 35 pounds. Not huge, but not too bad either. Maybe we'll get a bigger one next year.
The kids pumpkin was much smaller- only about 14 pounds. It's funny how some kids have no concept of how much things weigh. I had some 2nd and 3rd graders guessing that it weighed hundreds of pounds!
The Friday before Halloween we had my parents over for pizza and pumpkin carving.
Being a new fan of pumpkin, Clark watched us closely and picked up any pieces we dropped.
We gave him his own pumpkin on the floor to play with, but he was more interested in my camera.
Logan likes to make scary pumpkins. But Clark wasn't scared- he kept licking the pumpkin's eyes.
Mine was supposed to look scared...
I told my parents they looked like American Gothic when they posed with their jack-o-lanterns.
We tried to make the pumpkin look like it was scared because Clark was eating it, but it didn't turn out so well.
All lit up...
On Halloween morning we went to watch Chloe's ballet class. The girls were all so cute, but at three years old they don't follow directions too well yet. As we like to say- "It was like trying to herd cats."
Chloe and her friend Faith pose after the class.
That evening we had a great dinner at Mandi and Geoffrey's followed by trick-or-treating with Chloe. She was dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. She stood still for Mandi to braid her hair.
Geoffrey loves Halloween- especially scary things. He tried to put on his Freddy Krueger mask to go trick-or-treating, but Chloe was too scared. So he settled for wearing the shirt and hat.
After the trick-or-treating, Logan advised Chloe on which candy to eat. She very generously offered to share.
Now, a week later, we're at work on another house project. We've whittled them down over the past five years, and we're nearly done with the whole house and yard. It's hard to believe we've owned (and worked on) the house for nearly five years now. This week we're working on the front yard. On Saturday we went shopping for sprinkler parts and plants, and on Sunday I dug trenches for the sprinklers while Logan put together the system. Here he is soldering the new pipes together:
Dad brought his newly painted truck over for us to see on Sunday afternoon. It's at least fifteen years old (can't remember what year), but it looks brand new now with the new paint job. Clark was so excited to see everyone.
Here's the yard with the trenches and new sprinkler pipes.
Today (Veteran's Day) Logan and I were both off work, so we spent the whole day working in the yard. We built a circular planter around our tree...
And planted several new plants, including a row of lantana along the sidewalk.
It was nearly dark when we stopped working tonight, so I didn't take photos of our most recent progress. I went and got two truck loads of tanbark for the yard, and we still need at least one more. But that will have to wait until the weekend. Back to work tomorrow...
