Tonight I think we’re going to carve pumpkins – I’m not 100% sure – but I hope so. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and decorating and carving pumpkins is the best part. I coulddo without the trick-or-treating in the freezing cold but the kids love it.

Roasting pumpkin seeds is probably one of the best memories I have of my childhood. My mom was a single parent and we would spend an evening digging out the gunk and sorting out the seeds. Stirring them in the oven as they toasted into a golden brown and salty goodness.

This halloween Aerik will be dressing as Darth Vader – which means he’s like a pig in mud – and Madison will be the Mad Hatter “only with better hair” she says. I’ll come back and post photos of them in their costumes after the 31st.

pumpkin photo by Teo