I must admit that Halloween never really has been exciting for me, and maybe that’s because I grew up in the country so we didn’t really trick-or-treat, just family and that was it. But this year I had it in my head I wanted to go to a Pumpkin Patch and I didn’t quit until we did… lol. My Mother-in-Law, Mom & Dad, Hubby, Tbug, Baby Girl, and I went.
Last Sunday Tbug took her chances at carving a pumpkin underwater. I stated that Saturday night she tried her hand at pumpkin carving on land since it had been a year since she’d carved a pumpkin. Our local dive shop hosts a yearly underwater pumpkin carving and she wanted to participate. Her dad and I had to divide and conquer that day, he took her to that and I went to a baby shower with baby girl.
Since I couldn’t be there I told everyone to make sure I got lots and lots of pictures. (more…)
Holy cow, this weekend was one heck of a weekend. We haven’t had a busy weekend that was this much fun in a long time. So… I’m not doing this post in any kind of order because this was Saturday night after we had done sooooo many things Saturday alone. But it’s the best thing about my bloggy here because it records life 🙂
Saturday night Tbug carved her pumpkin! Now it is a tradition obviously to carve pumpkins around this part of the year… but we also wanted her to carve a pumpkin because Sunday she was going to carve a pumpkin underwater.
I guess I’ve never really gotten into the Halloween spirit… I lived in the country so really my parents used to drive me to my grandparents. Then for a while my mom worked at a bank on the square in town and all the businesses would have the kids come trick-or-treat there, otherwise, that was the extent of my trick-or-treating.
I now live in the country so it isn’t like we get a lot of visitors but I always keep some candy on hand just in case someone decides to come see me :).
I saw on facebook yesterday that a lot of the schools around the area were doing their “Harvest party” yesterday… like one gal said, why? And why not call it what it is people. Let’s get over being politically correct. It’s Halloween, celebrate it on Halloween. There… that is solved :).
Last night as I was driving home from school I decided I really wanted Pepperoni Pizza for dinner so I ran by Walmart to pick one up (not enough time to make one from scratch sadly). On my way home I started noticing that all the trees around me were gorgeous. Since when did that happen? I’m not complaining bug I guess we really haven’t had fall the last few years so it was just pure amazement to see the beautiful colors surrounding me.
This is on the back road coming up to my house. This is just a gorgeous setting anyway with the trees “covering” the road like they do. But gorgeous colors!
This is at the head of my driveway.
And this is looking out into my pasture.
It was just sooooo gorgeous and then add the rainy day on top of that. Oh I was in heaven. I snapped a few video’s. In the first video, the thump is one of the dogs walking into something in front of my car on their way to greet me. In the second video, you hear a neighbor kid holler which they had to holler loud as you can see if you look where the neighbors house really is.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ARDNYtaT4]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8utSex4AyA]
I hope y’all have a safe and happy Halloween!
It’s that time of the year. Time for the witches and ghouls and goblins to come out and start tricking us for treats. Oh yeah I just said that 🙂 It would also be known as October which means Pumpkin Carving for Halloween!! This is the last weekend we’ll have Tbug in October so we knew what we needed to do….
This year hubby participated in the Underwater Pumpkin Carving and so we bought new tools for him to take down with him because we weren’t sure where the ones from previous years were. Good thing too because we still haven’t found them. Woops! With the new tools, came a new book with new patterns so Tbug couldn’t decide if she wanted to use a pattern or make up her own. In the end, she decided to go with the book.
Have I ever told you how good my husband is to us? He helped Tbug with her pumpkin, helped me with mine, and still did his own. Yup, he’s awesome like that. He takes such good care of us! He chose to use a pattern out of the book as well.
I was the rebel child. I’m not one for following patterns, so I made my own. Oh yeah, I’m cool like that, or else I’m just a rebel child or don’t know how to follow the lines :). You choose.
Ah, my loves. I was the first one finished, partially because I made my own pattern so I didn’t have to wait for the pattern tool and partially because I think I started first.
Our finished pumpkins. We had to do them Friday night because we had a jam packed weekend so we got finished around 11pm.
But, 11pm makes great time for photos! Tbug’s, mine, hubby’s.
Happy Halloween y’all! 🙂
My heart goes out to those on the East Coast. Today is Halloween but to them, today is another day of dis-pare. I have a couple friends out there who are experiencing this first hand and I’m so sorry!
Since today is Halloween though, I thought I would share with you what happened round these parts this last weekend. I know this is a few days late but that’s the way I roll and the fact that it has to do with Halloween, this worked out.
Saturday afternoon Tbug, Hubby and I carved pumpkins and decorated cookies. This post is going to be picture heavy, so be for warned!
 |
| Be careful cutting or else you wind up slicing through your thumb. Then we glued it together and got a paper towel glued to his tumb. |
 |
| Tbug decided she wanted to draw her own pumpkin so she and her daddy went to work carving her design. |
 |
| Since she needed help carving her pumpkin, her daddy gave her his pumpkin to carve so she decided we needed to have a family pumpkin. |
 |
| It’s a pumpkin head… lol, just ask her. |
Remember when Early bought those cookie kits? Well we thought it would be fun to do one with Tbug.
Happy Halloween Y’all!
I did some traditions of Christmas last year, and I thought it might be interesting to know the traditions behind Halloween. This came from the History Channel, although I found another one over at Rose Valley Ranch blog plus if you get on to wikipedia it validates some of the different points.
This came from History Channel
People have been making jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween for centuries. The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack.” According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form. Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree’s bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern,” and then, simply “Jack O’Lantern.”
In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack’s lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits. In England, large beets are used. Immigrants from these countries brought the jack o’lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States. They soon found that pumpkins, a fruit native to America, make perfect jack-o’-lanterns.
Oh I’m so glad we could get that off our chest! Whew I don’t know about you but I feel mucha-mo-betta!
So Today is Tuesday, Halloween was Sunday and most of these pictures were taken on Saturday. It’s all good though, I had to celebrate PC’s birthday yesterday. It was the most important thing!!! I even made him a steak dinner that was outta this world!
I know I’ve read about some of your Halloweens but how did the rest of you fair? Good candy? Wanna share? I love sweettarts!
Peace, Love, & Pumpkins!
var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-19464438-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();
I’m a member of a women’s club and we were supposed to have a “Halloween” party and camp fire cookout the Thursday night before Halloween. Well circumstances came up and we were unable to have it then, so it got postponed to last night. We met at Mary’s house and were supposed to come in costume. After the Month of October we were all afraid that it would be frighteningly cold but last night was awesome weather. Although we were supposed to dress up, not everyone did 🙁 but we had some great costumes from those who did!!!
Saturday night was Halloween. What does that mean… all the little ghosts and goblins come out to play and want to Trick or Treat you! Last year I went to a Halloween party. We had a load of fun because we all dressed up, it was great. I went as Marilyn Monroe. This year there had been debate all the way up to Halloween and I never was told about anything. Oh well worked out for the best anyway, because Sunday, November 1 is Prince Charming’s birthday. My mom and I actually had tickets to the ballet in Tulsa; we went to see Dracula. It was awesome!!! So we used Saturday night to take Prince Charming out for his birthday. You’ll have to ask him for sure but I think he really enjoyed his birthday presents and his birthday in general!
