Pre-Halloween Fun

Every year Kacean has a pumpkin carving party right before Halloween. Ethan was counting down the days until we could get our pumpkins and carve them. This year, he was all about carving a traditional jack-o-lantern, which made it MUCH easier for Mart to help him with! Mart was on a roll and was plowing through our pumpkins. He ended up carving all three of ours before everyone else finished their first one.

I was holding my sidekick. The last few weeks she flat out refuses to let anyone but me hold her. She will scream her lungs out the second anyone (including Mart) touches her or tries to take her from me.

Lincoln didn't care what his pumpkin looked like, as long as he got one to put on the porch. Mart chose to do Jack's pumpkin face from the opening scenes of the Nightmare before Christmas.

And Mart made his a mustache pumpkin with hipster glasses ... which ended up (without meaning to) looking like the pringles man when it was lit. :)

Linc's pumpkin

Mart's pumpkin

Ethan's pumpkin

All lit up (and Kace's angry bird pumpkin)

The boys were so excited to go home and light them up on the porch!

We also made our yearly trek up to the pumpkin walk! Ber was able to come with us this year. It was super convenient this year to just walk out the house, walk up the block and catch the shuttle. We didn't have to worry about driving and parking. It was awesome!

The boys love Ghostbusters and loved the Ghostbusters scene. Lincoln was a little nervous of the marshmallow man, but soon figured out that he wasn't real. They also had a great time looking for the hidden star in each scene. It definitely made it so we spent more time looking at each scene.

They also really liked the Wreck it Ralph scene.

Ethan got really excited when he saw all the Star Wars pumpkins.

While looking at the wall of scenes from the past, I saw one that looked quite familiar. It was one of mine! :) This was one of three sections I did with MaryEllen that year.

And, what's the pumpkin walk without some cute little heads sticking through character cutouts? The boys think these are always super awesome and can't help but stick their head in each and every one of them.

Ethan Potter

Lincoln-credible!

Ethan (Jesse), Lincoln (Buzz) and Ber (Woody)

And wise Ethan Yoda

and Lincoln Yoda.

It was fun to celebrate 30 years of the pumpkin walk, I hope it keeps going for at least 30 more!