Pumpkins and Costumes

My favorite thing about October is the carving of pumpkins. Joel and I carved pumpkins this weekend. Joel does not touch the insides with his hands. I love to clean out all the seeds and guts with my hands. So when we are done my fingers are all stained orange and Joel's hands are perfectly clean. Here are our pumpkins lit up.



Joel and his pumpkin :)



My pumpkin and me :)

Afterward we cleaned the seeds and roasted them...also my favorite!

We had a Halloween party on Saturday.
Joel was the lumber jack and I was little red riding hood.

So we looked all over at the stores for an ax that Joel liked...no luck.
Ten minutes before we left for the party Joel decided that he wanted an ax. I told him I could make him one...he had little faith. So I got out some scrapbook paper and drew the top of the ax and made him one. He was amazed!! It actually looked like one.

We all had a good time at the party. It was the first time Joel and I had been to a dance party together. I never knew Joel was such a party animal. He was dancing the whole time....so much that in the middle of the night his ankle hurt. He sure does have some pretty sweet moves. ;)

Here is a picture of us with Lance.

This was the last picture for the night.....

Fall

It has been a while since our last post. We have had a few things change.
Joel grew a beard and I dyed my hair brown.

Here is an up close picture of Joel;) I took it when he was least expecting it.
Joel had to grow the beard for his Halloween costume. He is going to be a lumber jack. I was surprised but he grows a nice beard. It looks really good when he trims it.

We took this picture when we were waiting in the car....this was like the six one we took.
I think it looks good.

We have been painting the trim and doors in our house. A couple of weeks ago we painted all the doors in our house brown...there were 22. I never realized how many doors a house had. It was a lot of work. I took almost all of them down. It was my first time using the electric drill. I learned I could take them down fine but putting them back up is a real challenge. Here is a picture of our front door with some nice pumpkins from our parents. Which we are going to carve tonight...I am so excited!!




So for my birthday, I wanted a center piece for the kitchen table. Joel took me to the store Tai Pan Trading...it is awesome! It is so huge and we found some great deals. The picture is hard to see but there are 3 glass holders and 3 pumpkin spice candles in them with the leaves surrounding. I can change the candles and surroundings for each holiday :)

We also found these cute ghosts and a big black pumpkin.