I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I love Halloween! All the scary movies come out, the weather starts turning cool and, as Kate wrote in a recent letter to me, it's the start of good things to come. I also really love dressing up. Always have. Don't you remember when I wrote about it before?Today was such a beautiful and rather warm day. When I got home from my art class, I took the dogs out in the sun and set to work carving pumpkins. I thouroughly cleaned out 4 pumpkins with the intention of carving some incredible scenes into them. I started carving a haunted house, but got frustrated and sick of carving. My mom turned it into a "B" and carved "O's" in 2 of the other pumpkins. I decided I could handle carving a face and the result is the photo above. Not too bad I guess. We only had about 10 trick-or-treaters. I think our hill is too much work for a little piece of candy. These kids need to strap on the roller blades like I did. I collected so much more candy wearing those, but I think they're out of style now.
Last night, I went to a Halloween party and dressed in Emily's fairy costume (thanks Emily!). I must say the wings were a challenge though. There were a lot of people there and I think I hit just about everyone I passed with the wings. There were some really cool costumes. People are really creative. I think I need to be more creative next year. Unfortunately, the cops came to break up the party around midnight. I guess we were a bit too loud, or maybe it's just all the old people in Holladay who like their quiet little town.
Well, tomorrow is November. I can't believe it. I'm already looking forward to turkey! Happy Halloween!
5 comments:
you make a lovely fairy!
I miss carving pumpkins with you! Remember the last year I was home for Halloween, we carved so many with all the print outs from the internet? All I remember is the Spongebob Squarepants one. Me and my friend Megan wanted to carve some when we went to Phoenix, but all the pumpkins were sold out! Wish I could've been home.
The pumpkins were sold out? What kind of state do you live in? Oh, yeah. The hot kind that probably can't grow their own pumpkins. Sorroo!
Loved reading the part about "good things to come". I am trying to get over my totally irrational hatred of fall, because it is a precursor to winter. This writing is just more evidence of why I need to change my attitude. Thanks
I was telling Heather the other day about how we use to use roller blades. We would terrorize the entire neighborhood and the amount of candy by the end of the day was great. Those were the days when all you cared about was candy. I hated it when there were stairs though.
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