Pumpkin Carving Fun

This year we bought a white pumpkin. 

We bough it on our way to Houghton to visit Tage for Family Weekend the first weekend in October. It has developed a few bad spots on it, but it was still very carve-able.

Kiah didn't trust me with the nice (for some reason) and so she decided to do it.

Goodness, she is so photogenic...

Cleaning out the "pumpkin guts."

And my favorite part... the pumpkin seeds!

Sometimes things get a little crazy around here!

My job... separating the pumpkin seeds from the "guts."

The finished product: meet Jorge, the pumpkin!

This was the first Halloween that I can remember when we did not have anyone trick-or-treating. Tage was home for the weekend and he and my Dad were at the playoff football game so Kiah and I decided to make popcorn and watch movies. It was a different but fun Halloween!

Spider Rings

My friend Laura, sent me a care package last week. And among other wonderful things (like candy corn, stickers, and leaves from home) there were spider rings!

 I wasn't sure how the kids would react to them at first as for some reason they really don't like bugs. I mean, come on.... my preschool class is currently all boys! Don't most boys like bugs?

 Well let me tell you... they sure LOVE these rings! I have kept them in the preschool room and they only get to wear them during class time. I will catch them occasionally just gazing at their spider rings.... it's too cute.

 Nope, not scared one bit. I even made a big spider out of paper and they were a little unsure at first until I had the spider start bringing them treats. Now they say, "thank you, Spider!"

 Spider rings unite!

Thank you, Laura! The kids love them!