The first two pics were taken at Fry's Marketplace; that's where we got our pumpkins for carvin'.
Bailey loved climbing into the pumpkin bins.
Caitie looks thrilled. ha She's getting tired of posing for pics. Whoever heard of a pumpkin/halloween tree?!? So silly. But I used it as a background anyway. I was in a hurry to get a pic of both girls together, which wasn't easy; all they wanted to do was play in the pumpkin area.
We went to The Bass Pro Shop last Friday evening. They had a costume parade, trick-or-treating, a carousel ride, coloring, and a free Peanuts Halloween pic. We went last year and had a good time, so decided to go again this year. It was fun. Here's Bailey in the toy area.
It looks like Bailey is having an identity crisis... cowgirl hat, sunglasses, costume... she couldn't decide what to go with... or maybe it was the price of the sunglasses that gave her that look of distress.
Caitie on a moose on the carousel ride. Both girls love to go on the carousel.
Here is the free pic with the Peanut characters; this is the one the store personnel took. Half of Bailey's face is shaded by the netting on her hat.
I took this pic real quick. I think it turned out better than the one above; you can see more of Bailey's face.
We were late on the pumpkin carving this year. Something always came up or it was late when we thought about doing it, so just got around to it this last Sunday evening. Caitie was more into it this year, and Bailey enjoyed licking the top of the pumpkin and watching the carving being done.
Bailey did try to take part in the carving, but didn't stick around long, she was more interested in licking the top of the pumpkin.
Caitie picked out the white pumpkin to do on her own. She enjoyed helping carve it. She especially enjoyed taking out all the gooey innards on both pumpkins.
I took a pic of Bailey looking at the glowing candle in the pumpkin. I took a similar pic of Caitie at the same age. You can see it at PBase, click here.
Bailey looking in the glowing pumpkin.
Happy pumpkins. (yes, i'm running out of pic captions) I gave the two pics below a faded, softer look due to the lighting being so bad for both pics.
Caitie was one of five names drawn in her class to take a pumpkin home. She was thrilled, but has yet to carve it, and it's already starting to smell (the top was cut and innards taken out before she brought it home). We had already carved our pumpkins, so there was no rush to carve another one. Since it's past Halloween, it's probably best to just paint whatever colors and design she wants on it before having to throw it out.
Caitie had a Fall party at school yesterday. They had games, lots of sweets, crafts, and a movie.
We took the girls trick-or-treating around our neighborhood last night. Here they are in their costumes with their pumpkin pails in hand.
We stopped at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Grandma was sick with a cold. Grandpa was handing out candy and gave each grandgirl a bag of candy... Milky Way and Almond Joy. Yum! Thanks, Grandpa. :) It was pretty dark in the area I took this pic at, and bright in the other room, which made Caitie and her Grandpa almost impossible to see in the pic, so I made the pic a bit brighter so they would show up, and I also made it softer looking in order to hide some of the graininess, etc. I refuse to use flash; maybe I should rethink that. ha
Bailey loved this inflatable cat and pumpkin. She stood there for a while goin' on about it. The boy handing out candy was patient and stayed there to listen, Caitie, on the other hand, was gettin' tired of waitin'. ha
The girls got a lot of candy, but even with all those sweets, Caitie still insisted on a pumpkin shake from Jack in the Box. That's where we got dinner last night. We were out pretty late trick-or-treating, so decided fast food was the way to go. The whole day was sweets, so may as well end it with junk food, right? Right?!? um, yeah...
And that sums up our Halloween festivities.
**Sorry about the lousy spacing in this post; I had a lot of problems when spacing between comments and pics. I'm not sure what's up with Blogger now. *sigh*
