Halloween was such a blast this year. It's amazing the things you can do when you aren't required to be at work doing other things. Josh and I were able to spend our first official Halloween together at the house passing out candy. We managed to give away all of our candy despite having an overall low number of kids out(compared to how many kids went out when I was younger).
In addition to being home, I was able to put up a whole bunch of lights! I have ALWAYS wanted to light up my house, but was never able to when I lived with my folks. Now, there are lights nearly everywhere. In the windows, in the screen door, even found out that orange icicle lighting looks awesome along my garden edging. So, needless to say we had the brightest house on the block!
The only thing we wish we could have down, would have been to don costumes ourselves. Although even if we had, no one would have been the wiser, as we bundled up to beat the cold weather.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the pumpkins! Between the two of us, we carved four, count them FOUR pumpkins. All of which stuck to a Futurama theme, later renamed as "Pumpkin"-rama 2010. I found the stencil for the Bender pumpkin online here. For the other three I ended up utilizing my photoshop skills to create line drawings from some Windows icons that I found. Both Josh, I, and all the neighbors who walked by during Trick-or-Treating loved the final products. So the time spent turned out to be worth it. To answer one question we were asked quite often, no, we did not use any dremels to do our carvings.
Close-ups of the two I carved:
Leela
Bender Bending RodrÃguez
Until Next time,
Jennifer
