HALLOWEEN

New Year,

Same Tradition

but before all the pumpkin/carving/gasoline/fire hype, I present unto you ...

Mr. Grim Reaper and Mr. Dragon (and don't you dare try to call him a Dinosaur...made that mistake at least 8 or 9 times).

These little guys came trick-or-treating to us on Friday night. Not sure if it was them or Brandon who depleted our candy supply, but had to buy more "goods" the next day. Thanks for coming to our house guys!!!

Victims

Surgery.
I'm so original and carve the same pumpkin year after year after year after...
Clayton thinks it looks like Grand Pumpkin from the Simpson's Treehouse of Horror episode a few years back.
Traditional "pumpkin as a head picture pose"
or ... "Heidi hasn't washed her hair in 3 days and doesn't want to show her grease monkey head to the www picture pose".
The goods!
can you see the excitement in his eyes? He was born to burn pumpkins!

Light 'er up

The GRAND finale!

Burn baby burn.

Naturally (and/or sadly) almost a week later and I am still recovering from my sugar high. However, Halloween did bring about some new tasty treats (besides the fun-sized kind). We decided to have a pumpkin theme and made pumpkin oatmeal muffins (very healthy and because of that very b-l-a-n-d) and pumpkin smoothie (freaking awesome! Seriously!!!). We also made beef stew in the crockpot for the first time (thank you Brenda!) and may I say...SUCCESS!