Halloween 2013

Bryan and I didn't do very much for Halloween this year but I thought I'd share the little that we did do. Most things this year have been pretty simple, especially the closer to my due date it gets. I love Halloween but it was no exception. However, it's not Halloween if you don't carve some pumpkins! We bought some pumpkins a couple of weeks ago and kept them outside until last Monday when we carved them for FHE. Here we are, getting started!

It rained all day on Monday and the pumpkins were freezing to pull the guts out of!

I wanted to do something to do with our big event coming up but I didn't want to make it cheesy so I carved a mom cat and her kitten. Cats are my favorite thing to carve on my pumpkins-- I should really branch out.

Like Bryan! He has a new idea every year and it's always clever, I think. He decided to carve a rocket ship.

Here are our pumpkins all lit up outside just before the trick or treating started. Last year for Halloween we lived in a townhouse that was near a couple of neighborhood but also near a very busy road. We thought we'd get some trick or treaters due to the neighborhoods but not a one showed up. We ended up eating a lot of Halloween candy over the course of the next week as a result. This year we were very excited because we live in a nice neighborhood with a lot of young families and we knew we'd get some visitors. We weren't disappointed! It was a lot of fun and sometimes pretty funny, especially with little kids. We had one little boy come up to our door, knock, hold out his bag and with some questioning say, "I want some candy." His mom called from the road, "No, what do we say?" He thought for a minute and then said, "Trick or treat?" It was pretty cute.

This year's costume was pretty simple. An orange shirt with a sewn on felt Jack O Lantern face. It cost me $3.45 plus the little time it took to hand stitch the face on. Bryan didn't dress up. We basically just sat in our living room waiting for our doorbell to ring all night but it was a lot of fun!

We are highly anticipating next Halloween with an almost one-year old! I already have costume ideas rolling around my head.

Last of all, here is my most recent bump picture.

Right now I'm about 34 1/2. Very exciting! Nesting mode has been enacted.