Crisp, clear, Spooky Halloween, no snow today!

Some of our favorite little spooks. H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N !!!!!
Some places are decorated all out for Halloween.
The after product
Doug carving away with his little carving tool.
The before picture, sorry it's last

Halloween is a hard holiday to be away from family. We always gather over to our house before the little spooks are out and about, for Pizza and Homemade pumpkin cookies. The grandkids are always so excited to be all dressed up with the anticipation of gathering yummy treats and showing off their costumes. Brandee emailed to let us know that the tradition is continuing with out us. We have such a fun wonderful safe neighborhood. We seriously have about 200 little and big trick or treaters come by our house on Halloween.

Here in Monticello they say it can be a scary place to be outside on Halloween. Many people have gotten hurt from flying eggs. Our complex where we live is off the beaten path and there is a sign up any way that says "Absolutely no Trick or Treating allowed". How sad. The missionaries are all to be in by 6:00 pm tonight, they can play games or sleep. We are hopeful to have the Elders in our building over for pie and a mean game of Canasta. Also I printed off some fun Halloween word games.

We carved and painted pumpkins for FHE with branch members and Doug had one left over that he saved for himself. I used mine to make pumpkin pie. What a long process. I was told that it makes the best pie when used fresh. It is a really good tasting pie, but too much time. There is a special breed of pumpkin used for just pies. I've got another one saved for Thanksgiving and then I think Ill just use the canned stuff.