HALLOWEEN 2008

This Halloween was a lot of fun. My parents came in to our house like they have in the past. We had the traditional meal of pizza. Once it started getting dark and we were all dressed we went out to do a little trick or treating to some homes we know in the neighborhood. My parents stayed back and handed out candy. They really helped out a lot tonight and we really appreciated it.

The weather was perfect. It had been threatening rain all week and for some reason it stopped this afternoon and is suppose to start up later in the night. Wasn't even that cold out.

There were a ton of people out tonight. Even the Chief of Police was driving around and gave all 3 of us stickers and candy. We love walking around the neighborhood because there are a few houses that really do it up. This one house had a pirate theme and they even had a boat sitting in their front yard with a bubble machine which had smoke inside of them when they popped. They were standing out in their pirate outfits and the whole set was really cool.

We came back to the house and relieved my parents and handed out candy. Although, we continued to take turns. Just depended on what was going on inside the house. We must have went through almost 13lbs of candy and it was just about 8.

Soon as our friends showed up we shut the lights out and retreated to the back of the house.

The below pics are of my husband in his stealth stormtrooper outfit. They are a special op stormtrooper. He got a lot of attention and there were people taking pics of him and kids running up to him. This one kid in a white cloth stormtrooper started yelling about a house away and was running up to him. Then he stood there and admired his costume. He was like 9 and was really interested. Some people called him Darth Vader. You could tell who were the fans and then you could tell who didn't know much about the movies.

He has wanted the white stormtrooper for awhile now but settled for the stealth one. He plans on wearing it ever year. Eventually he wants all of us to have star wars costumes.

He has some modifications to do and it's not a suit thats made for a lot of walking. By the time we got back home he was pretty worn out but still answered the door and passed out candy.

Big Kids...

My husband grew up never carving pumpkins as a kid. For the past 9 years he really gets into it and always puts thought into what he's going to carve. I on the other hand, just wing it.

We got our pumpkins a few weeks ago and just like an excited child he's been asking when can we carve them. I tell him it's always best to wait till the week of so they don't mold too early.

So yesterday afternoon we went out back to carve since it was such a warm day. I had to laugh when I saw how into it he was. A dremmel tool?? Gloves? He can't stand the feel of the pumpkin. While it never bothers me and I can have pumpkin all up my arms!

He chose to do a starwars look and I just made a traditional jack o' lantern. Our third pumpkin was our daughters and she had no interest in the pumpkins. She was too busy playing in the backyard.

Steve and I had no idea what to carve. We looked at all the different tracing patterns but neither of us wanted to get started on one. We ended up doing stars and with the colored light inside of it I think it turned out pretty well.

OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS

The White House went pink tonight, part of worldwide campaign at more than 200 landmarks around the globe this month to commemorate breast cancer awareness.

During a ceremony at the White House, First Lady Laura Bush flipped a switch and suddenly a building that has been white ever since John and Abigail Adams took up residence there in 1800 was suddenly pink. She said:

We're showing our support of breast cancer awareness and research in a historic way. In recognition of the mothers, daughters, sisters and wives who struggle with this disease, we're lighting the White House in pink, which is the color of the cause. May our lights tonight shine as beacons around the world, a signal of the United States' commitment to saving lives for breast cancer.