
I'm not sure where to start to explain this day...It's Halloween and we packed it full of fun and crazy things. This is a big weekend already. Yesterday, Baby Millee arrived...being her Aunt Tabby and Uncle Cubby, we really were excited. Tomorrow is Cubby's birthday and he'll finally be a decent age in his 40's...42...at least he is climbing now. We started the day having breakfast at Cracker Barrel with Katie and Drew. We told lots of stupid Halloween jokes and had a really fun time. Cubby had his pancakes, so everything was great. You know how he is about his pancakes. He'll be having more in the morning for his birthday breakfast.
So this first picture...what in the world?? Why are there pigs flying around?? After we had breakfast we headed out to the pumpkin patch...and there is SO much more than pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. There are pig races! This is the 3rd race where they were really rounding the corner. I think Porky won the first race, Wilbur won the 2nd and Porky stole the show again on race 3. This was absolutely hilarious....Go Wilbur Go!

We headed out to the pumpkin patch after the pig races ended...Katie and Drew picked out their pumpkins for the pumpkin carving contest that was being held on our drive way later in the day. Little did I know what was going to go down in the drive way!!!! LOL! Cubby and I already picked out our pumpkin and we were already scheming on how we were going to win the carving contest. :) We also visited the petting zoo and a goat grabbed Cubby's finger and started sucking on it. A picture is posted on FB. LOL! He went to the hand sanitizer booth right away. We saw the ducks and the crazy roosters that were crowing at the crack of Noon....little late fellows!
We had our pumpkins loaded up in our cars and headed home for the carving contest. Once we were all at the house, we headed to the drive way with our prize pumpkins, knives, carving tools, markers and scrapers. We started making our cuts around the top. I told Drew and Katie to angle the top cuts so the lids would not fall into the pumpkins later....Drew made straight cuts and now his pumpkin lid has to sit at an angle...silly man. Once we cut the tops out, we started pulling out the seeds and slime. I love the smell of fresh pumpkins...so does Katie. Cubby thinks it is the nastiest thing in the world and chose to just sit and watch the carving contest. We all got tickled over how much stuff we were pulling out of the pumpkins and it didn't take long before we were throwing it all over each other. The pumpkin seeds were flying and the slime was every where. I don't know when I have had so much fun and laughed so hard. Cubby kept saying, "Settle down, you guys are going to make a mess!" He was acting like a MeMaw! LOL! It was too funny. I carved 2 pumpkins, dancing ghosts and a Happy Pumpkin. Speaking of Happy...I found a pillow to give Cubby....it says, "I'm Happy, Don't Ruin It!" ROFL...I showed it to him today and he thinks it is hilarious. Too bad I already bought his birthday presents. :) Drew carved a skull and cross bones...really cool....and Katie carved a Cat that took forever and by the time she was near the end something went terribly wrong and she tossed the whole thing in the trash. I still can't believe she threw it away. She went OCD on the pumpkin! Cubby and I got the front porch ready and we placed our pumpkins on display just before the 1000 trick or treaters came to the house. As I am writing this, they are still coming. I left to run an errand and when I drove back in to our neighborhood there were hundreds of cars lined up...It took forever to make it back to our house. I've never in all my life seen so many kids trick or treating...it was really neat to see so many kids with their parents having so much fun.

This is Mr. Bunny and he has been with me for 12 years. Every holiday or festivas he always dresses up. He is wearing his Halloween scarf and is looking very dignified this evening. I love Mr. Bunny.

This is the Happy Pumpkin that I carved...this one took a while to clean out and I think most of the slime from him was on Drew, but I'm still picking pumpkin seeds off my blue jeans. The carving on this one only took me five minutes....he was easy.

This is Drew's pumpkin...his turned out really great and then he added the "Beware" at the top to add a little spook to his creation.

This is my Dancing Ghosts pumpkin. They are all wearing bow ties as you can see, but can you really tell that three of them have on top hats? My pattern didn't copy on the right side, so I had to free hand it on the two ghosts on the right....I don't know, I think it looks pretty good.
Cubby was the judge since he didn't actually carve or even touch the pumpkin junk. The contest was threefold...One, Difficulty in carving....Two, how well you followed the pattern....Three, presentation. Judge Cubby ruled as follows....Difficulty in carving goes to the Dancing Pumpkins....Presentation goes to the Skull and Crossbones....and following the pattern goes to the Happy Pumpkin. Best in Show overall goes to the Dancing Pumpkins. WooHoo!!!!! Certainly I agree with Cubby's ruling...but, Drew is calling foul for some really crazy idea he came up with since the judge is my Cubby. Obviously, Miss Katie was disqualified for going OCD on the pumpkin that ended up in the trash. Happy Halloween everyone. What a great day it was today!
Why did the coffin stop chasing the people once they threw cough syrup on it???? It stopped coughing....get it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!