Halloween 2009

We had a very fun Halloween season this year. It all started with a trip to the Pumpkin patch at Faulkner Farms. They had a pumpkin-lobbing trebuchet that would launch a gourd 100 feet away to it's gut-splashing death.

On Halloween day we started off with Nik's AYSO soccer game, and then it was time to rush home to prepare for the evening.

This is the first year that both Brodie and Nik could really take part in preparing their own pumpkins for carving. Neither of them were too happy with putting their hands in the squishy guts.

They both created their own design for their Jack O' Lanterns and I helped them carve.

Meanwhile, Marion was getting the house ready for a Halloween party we were hosting for Brodie and Nik's friends. We were having about 9 kids and their parents over for games like Skeleton scavenger hunt (find the bones hidden in our yard,) Which Witch? (where each kid demonstrated their psychic skills by reading the minds of the others,) and mummy wrap contest.

She also prepared some spooky treats. The punch bowl had two scary hands floating in it, and the apple slices were dressed up as vampire's mouths with slivered almond fangs. She also served freshly sliced flesh for the grownups (prosciutto on toasted baguette with cream cheese.)

Brodie wanted to be the Terminator for Halloween, so I bought a small makeup kit to cyborg him up. It seemed a shame to let the rest of the makeup go to waste, so we dressed-up Nik's pizza guy costume to make him a Zombie Pizza Guy; "Want a slice?!" I don't usually dress up for Halloween, but since I was hosting the party I thought I should make some effort so I did myself up as The Joker from Batman.

Everyone from the party trick-or-treated as a group in the neighborhood of new homes behind our house. The houses were built very close together with the front doors very close to the side walk, so we were able to visit a lot of homes in a short time. Unfortunately we didn't stop after a short time. The boys returned home at 9 o'clock after more than 2 hours of trick-or-treating, and only stopped because their arms hurt from carrying their heavy bags of loot.