Annual Halloween Pumpkin Carving Party

My sister hosted this year's annual family pumpkin carving party 

and really went all out for it.

Our family really loves a fun theme party!

My sister finished an amazing back deck this past summer

and wanted so badly to carve them out there....

but it got very cold and rainy, so indoors it was held!

The upper right one is Ariel the Little Mermaid-

made by my niece Delaney, who looks exactly like Ariel.

The spear one in the middle was carved by my sister whose

son Tony is a Junior at Arizona State - (The Sun Devils.) The cat is by my eldest over-carver Evelyn who is an art school graduate.

The paw print was made by my brother-in-law - it is the logo of

his a.m. Ohio University. The top left many-toothed one was carved by my younger daughter Katie.

The Minion one-eyed one was carved by my older brother Danny,

the one with a football looking mouth at bottom right

was carved by my son-in-law Dan, the Jack Skellington one

middle left is from Nightmare Before Christmas and was done by my eldest niece Darien, and the sweet happy one on lower bottom was done by my youngest niece Reagan.

My husband didn't carve one this year because he had Grandpa Duty!

Here he is "holding" that very heavy pumpkin up that wee

Vivian thought she could lift herself.

I think you all now have established for yourselves that

this tiny 15-month old girl is a very headstrong girl.

♥

Grandpa said she was genius because she kept going up to a long large Trick or Treat sign on the wall pointing to her orange shirt, then to the orange part of the sign....then would point to her black pants, and then back to the black part of the sign.

Oh, that face, that precious sweet face!

Now unfortunately you won't find a Jack O' Lantern carved by me

this year, because I had to stay home due to being sick.

As much as I wanted to be there, getting anyone else sick

as I have been with a nasty deep cough, well, that's just bad.

So our camera was passed around

 and I don't know who took pics-

 it was a family affair!

All the decorations put up by my niece Darien.

(She is their family go-to Holiday Girl Extraordinaire!)

It took the baby some getting used to the scary stuff- 

but once she discovered how delicious Halloween can be,

 she lost all interest in being scared and chose being fed.

Check out these fun festive foods:

Pepper Popper Eyeballs

With cute mummified hot dogs...

Spider-webbed condiments...

I sent sloppy joes, and there was baked

 mac and cheese but no pics of them, 'cuz they're boring.

In my sister's house there is always a nod to some nutrition:

And my sister made some fun Halloween whimsical desserts

such as vampire mouth cookies

and German chocolate cake "brains!"...

And rice krispie treat pumpkins...

My eldest brought a perfect Autumn dessert with apples....

Caramel Apple Bars, which I hear were really delicious, too.

She found her yummy recipe here. 

But after a fun, full and busy night and past bedtime, 

nothing is more satisfying for a tired baby than a calming bottle....

So another year's pumpkin carving party is now behind us.....

so let the Trick or Treating Begin!

Tonight is the night when dead leaves fly...

the witches on switches across the sky.....

HAPPY ALL-HALLOW'S EVE!

Be safe and watch out for those wee goblins and ghouls!

Hugs and haunts,

~Michele