Friday, October 31, 2008

Carving Pumpkins!

We spent Halloween Eve at Crystal's house carving pumpkins. It was so much fun watching the kids design, clean and carve (thanks to Spencer) their own pumpkins.


Amanda made the best pot of chili beans! She took everything to work with her and cooked it in the kitchen all day. That turned out to be very hard on all the construction workers that came into her office. I guess I should have taken a picture of them before they were grubbed on.


Crystal made her famous "Spider Cupcakes". The kids love them.




This is Crystal and Spencer's neighbor and good friend Geremy AKA "Wheels" and his fabulous service dog Buffy. We tried to talk him into going as a vampire for Halloween then he and his dog would be "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".


Sage wasn't too sure about being in the pumpkin!


Freshly bathed and happy!


William is going to be brave and clean out his own pumpkin.


See the look on his face? He was not expecting it to be so slimy.


Now Wayne gets all excited about anything scary or gross! So he tackled his pumkin with gusto! We keep saying he will be a famous producer of scary movies! If it bites, growls, crawls, or looks scary Wayne will love it! So Halloween is his thing!


Jayden wasn't too sure about the "Pumpkin Guts" at first. But soon she was gutting her pumpkin like a pro. She was a good help up until we caught her putting it all back in everyone's pumpkin!


Isn't she cute in her little tie died pumpkin shirt she made with mommy? By they way that's chili beans on her face.


Now I think RaLee's pumkin looks like Dora The Explorer but she says it's a cheerleader. LOL She is too fun to tease. You did a good job RaLee!

DRUM ROLLS PLEASE! And the best Pumkin Award goes to...


AMANDA!


Pumpkins all carved and lit! Now it's time for bed.

7 comments:

Amanda Griggs said...

Ahhh, I didn't know I won the best pumpkin award!! We are so excited for our little pumpkin to finally arrive!

We had so much fun carving pumpkins with everyone!

I'm so glad everyone enjoyed dinner. I was told yesterday at work that sometime next week I have to make chili that my coworkers can eat!

Eldredge Family said...

Thanks so much for taking all of the pictures mom. I was so worn out by the time it was time to take pictures I was so tired! This week has been so much fun! I love Amanda's little Pumpkin award! So cute! Jayden was so funny! She kept putting all the crap back into the pumpkins!

Sharron said...

Boy that looks like so much fun , that I don't think I want to have!
Last night I saw a guy on TV tha is a "master pumpkin carver" He used all kind of power tools, that looked like my kind of carving. Even had a scooper that attached to a power drill. Hey Amanda, we need to get you and Mariah together and compare pumpkins!

Liz said...

I saw the same show. We did bust out the drill and use all of Spencer's bits. That's why RaLee's pumkin has polka dots...LOL. She went power tool crazy there at the end. I bet Mariah's pumpkin is bigger by at least 4 weeks. LOL. We should get a picture of the two of them together around the end of February. That would be fun

Jessica Caldwell said...

looks like sooo much fun i'm sad we had to miss out. But you do what you have to even though it's hard sometimes!

Liz said...

Yea you guys live so far away and gas is very expensive. I'm so thankful you got to come trick or treating though.

Tamra said...

what a fun halloween you all had together. cute costumes and clever mothers!