I could not let the day of Halloween go uncelebrated. Okay I know we just had a serious Halloween marathon, but come on it was the actual day. We had to do something. So we had pumpkin Jack-o-lantern pancakes in the morning.
The boys got to make their own Jack-o-lantern faces out of chocolate chips.
After church we decided to actually carve one of our pumpkins from our porch. We haven't been so good at this in years past. We usually paint them, but there is something great about a Jack-o-lantern with a candle in it.
Each boy got to do a different part of the pumpkin. Palmer did the mouth.
Lincoln did the eyes.
Hunter did the nose.
Then they did the scooping. To be honest I have a suspicion that this is the reason that Josh doesn't like to carve Jack-o-lanterns. Luckily the boys were good to do it.
Then we let them each carve what they had drawn. We just used those "kid friendly" knives.
Josh was right there to make sure that nothing went wrong.
This was our finished product.
We had a Autumn dinner with squash, salad, broccoli cheese soup and apple juice. I had a hard time coming up with a dinner idea since we had already had chili and pizza.
Our little Jack-o-lantern came around with us for the whole night. Where we went he went. He was our mascot.
Then we read all of our favorite Halloween books one last time. I actually loved having this day to sort of say goodbye to the season that we love so much.
Then we played a "Don't Eat Frank". The kids hadn't played this version yet, so they loved it.
Lincoln totally beat everyone! He was awesome.
After the boys were asleep Josh and I watched "Charade" for our Halloween movie. I know that isn't scary, but it works for us. Then it was all over. Until next year.
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