Halloween

Pumpkin Carving

Our Pumpkins (detailed pictures below!)


Kirsten, Mike, and Andy

Ryan and Mason


Andy and Lisa (she is due 6 weeks before me, yeah!)


Steve and Brittany (she is due 2 weeks after me, so fun!)

We had a great Halloween this year. We had a pumpkin carving get together a few days before Halloween. I was so glad I was feeling up to it! I baked cookies and had fun decorations up, and we loved having company over. Plus, 2 of my friends are prego right now also, so it's always fun to get together and discuss the latest thoughts and findings regarding babies, baby gear, and being pregnant.

On Halloween itself, we handed out candy at our complex for a while and then went to our ward trunk-or-treat, and then to a neighborhood Haunted House with another couple from our ward. The Haunted House, although free and totally home-made, was pretty legit. They have been doing it for 20 years now, and turn their entire front lawn into a spook alley complete with wooden floors that move from underneath you in some places, a chainsaw man running around out front, Beetle Juice on a microphone entertaining the crowd before you go in, the whole nine yards. LAPD even comes and blocks off the street for it! I of course get totally jumpy and scared and Ryan gets a kick out of it. The best is when I jump so much that it makes him jump!

We dressed up as UT Jazz players, Karl Malone and John Stockton. Ryan already had the jerseys from when he worked for the Jazz in college, so it was an easy costume and really comfortable. (Don't worry my fellow Californian's...my heart is still firmly planted in the soil of the Golden State.)

Anyway, we had a great time. Halloween was always my Mom's favorite holiday growing up, so I hope to someday make it as memorable of a holiday for my kids as she always did for me!

Chelsea's - Mason's - Andy & Lisa

Steve's - Ryan's - Laurel's


Brittany's Classic