Pumpkin carving, one of Andy's favorite holiday traditions!

He's quite the artist with a carving knife. Here is Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin

My choice: cat with crescent moon

Ben's choice: big scary pumpkin eating baby boo!

The artists at work and play!

Andy's choice: Jack from The Nightmare Before Christmas

I made the other two pumpkins: the floral one to the left and the third, which was Bella's design

Crazy Hair Day

Bella's school has chosen the past two years not to allow kids to wear costumes and participate in the usual Halloween traditions. This year they spend about 10 days talking up "Elect To Be Drug Free" week. Bella got really into it, wearing patriotic colors one day, dressing up in her best dress another. On the final day of this week, October 30, the task was to wear your hair crazy. As you may remember from the spring, Bella loved making her hair crazy for the walk -a-thon, so we had some colors on hand to help with the fun. Of course we couldn't stop there...Ben had to have his hair crazy too.

Halloween, a little late!

This year Bella planned to be a vampire for Halloween. After reading the book Bunnicula, she decided to change it up a little by adding bunny ears. If you don't know the story, it's a whole series about a vampire bunny who suck the juice out of vegetables. (The series was written by author James Howe.) In true Ben fashion, he had to be something similar to his sister and chose to be a vampire bat. (Use your imagination here people - I don't have time to make wings!) I've had many comments from friends who know of my love for the Twilight series and claim my children were Edward and Bella, but I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! Really!