Halloween Festivities

Halloween is in full swing! We have our spooky lights up, we have pumpkins carved, cupcakes baked, cider has been poured and we are ready!

Pumpkin carving was the name of the game last night and this was our first real attempt together. I had carved my first one in years last year with Nate and Dana, and this was Tammy’s first one in forever. So as you can guess, the pressure was on. We spent quite a while working on templates, conceptual ideas that were well beyond our technical abilities. My first inclination was to make a Magneto pumpkin and Tammy was talking up Scott Pilgrim pumpkin. As reality set in, we decided on simpler subjects. She would go for more traditional monster pumpkin and I, for some reason, decided on less traditional raccoon pumpkin. As you can see, the finished products were Frankenstein (10 points to Tam for succeeding in monster category) and vaguely bear shaped (6 points for adorable, but misguided).

Tammy also gets extra points for making amazing orange cupcakes, although the decorating part has been called into question (primarily the one in the bottom left that is a vampire). They were super delicious though.

The lights are finally staying up all night, which is great news. They are a lot like a baby, although in the opposite direction. You can finally get some sleep when the baby sleeps through the night, and we can finally sleep now that the lights are staying up through the night. It was not pleasant when the strands would fall around 3AM, knocking over anything and everything in its path. Anyway, on to parts that have less terrible analogies.

We are also watching Buffy, which is a solid Halloween time series. I have forced many shows upon Tam so far, so we decided to work our way through one of her old favorites. We’re about halfway through season 1, and the effects are delightfully cheesy. The show managed to become remarkably dated (I love seeing the mid 90s version of a laptop) but it’s been fun.

Anyway, it’s been a pretty enjoyable October thus far, we still have the holiday itself coming up, and Sam and Melody are coming out here in a week or two. Should be a strong finish. Hope everyone is having equally fun October days out there, and let me know if you have competition to put our pumpkins to the test. Can you top the FrankenBear duo?