Halloween 2017

This year we went to Soergels for our pumpkin picking.  I kept waiting for a weekend we were free and it wasn't crazy warm out, but that wasn't happening.  It was a beautiful day, even if it was pretty warm for picking out pumpkins! 

We ended up with 4 pumpkins (3 cheap ones from Walmart!) total to carve.  So we scooped all the guts out and Lyla picked out a picture for each of us to carve.  We were saving the big pumpkin patch ($15 one) for us all to do together.

Well.... Gary did his assigned unicorn picture and Lyla started on her troll.  I had a feeling things weren't going to go super smooth so I just held up on mine.  Well as I predicted Lyla got frustrated and decided the troll was too hard and handed it off to Gary to finish.  So then she started on my cat..... And not too far in decided she didn't want to do that either.  So I picked up where she left off and I was quickly becoming bored with the whole thing.  I am not a fan of doing the pictures.  I agree they look awesome at the end... but I have about a 5 to 10 minute window with carving pumpkins before I'm totally over it!  So anyways, Gary ended up finishing the cat too!  LOL  Oh and that big, perfect pumpkin that we took all the guts out of to carve together.... yeah.... Lyla painted it!  hahahaha But she was happy and that is all that matters!

For Halloween this year Lyla as a "Walking Taco"!  I made her costume, which I am super proud of!  She received tons of compliments on it!

Happy Halloween 2016

The last two months are a real blur, but I do want to share with everyone our Halloween Pictures!

Earlier in the month mom and I took Lyla to a corn maze.  We didn't get to a pumpkin patch this year with everything else we had going on, so I'm glad we at least took a day to do this!

We also got Lyla a couple of these kits from Michaels to build.  She really enjoyed doing them!

On Friday I volunteered to do Lyla's Halloween party at school.  We had lots of fun!  I was in charge of a game.  I had all the kids take a roll of toilet paper and wrap their partner up like a mummy - then they got to bust out of them.  They all thought it was great!

Saturday night we went to a Halloween party.  Gary and I dressed as Minions.  Lyla was a shopkin this year.  Lippy Lips to be exact. 

Lyla painted two pumpkins this year.  She loves painting!

On Sunday we carved our pumpkins.  We let Lyla pick which pumpkin she wanted and she picked the biggest one.  Then she complained that there was so much stuff to clean out of hers.....  Gary used a picture from the book (wolf), I drew a face and cut mine out old school (like I always do), Lyla drew a cat face on hers with a crayon then cut it out all by herself.  I was nervous, but she did a good job!

Monday night Gary took Lyla trick or treating while I stayed home and passed out candy.