Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Pumpkins and Pinterest

Halloween has come and gone. Surprisingly this year it wasn't a huge deal for me. It's one of my favorite days of the year, you know? I bought a doctors costume from WalMart (a flimsy piece of material that may as well have been stapled together) and helped out with trunk or treat at church.

By the way, I joined my first church again. It's a weird feeling "coming home" when I was so young when I left. But I feel like that church is where God wants me at this moment in time. He is doing amazing things with the people there and I'm so excited to be a part of it.

Anyway. This year my aunt had a Halloween bonfire/hayride at her house. Now, when I was younger we would do this. We would all get together and then we'd all get on this hayride only to have our wits scared out of us by our cousins and aunts and uncles. But we looked forward to it every time. So this year, being an older kid, it was a very different take on it. It was too much fun, egging the new wave of young kids on when we'd see a shadow in the woods. Too much fun.
Priceless
Highlight moments:

At trunk or treat, my cousin dressed up like a gorilla. And then he made a friend.

One of my cousins friends laid down in a shallow grave with a piece of rotten plywood on top of him and patiently awaited for us (being me and my sister who is afraid of zombies but was willing to go along with this one time thing) to flip it over. Then the zombie look alike launches himself from the grave and basically tackles my sister before going and chasing all of the little ones. Priceless.

.And lastly, for the second year in a row my sister and I carved the same pumpkin. And this time we were two states away from one another.


My sister's pumpkin.
My Pumpkin

So now I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. Getting to see my parents and a close friend of mine. So excited.

And lastly, have you heard of Pinterest? Soon, and I hope very soon, I will be posting pictures of one or two projects I will have completed from Pinterest by that time. Yayyyy crafting!