Pumpkins that is. I blame the length of this post on our friends being so cool.
Halloween began with the search for the perfect pumpkin.
Although in reality, Sam did most of the searching, and Maddie's opinion of the entire thing was more like this.
Once found, Sam headed over to Feldie's Annual Pumpkin Carving Party to get some hard core, power tooled, work in before Jess arrived in a few hours with the kids.
By the time the rest of the fam arrived to greet a happy Feldie, Sam was complete.
Then he filled his hands with one of our little pumpkins - yeah, I said that too.
Liza, Arthur and Erin were all in the beginning stages of their design.
Alex had flown in from Florida to begin stacking his pumpkins.
Hunvey also had some serious carving to get done.
And there were some who were in costume - Aarin is a tour widow (Drew is on-tour with Jay Z) - and some who were their fabulous selves - Scott and Kathleen. 
ELF dressed as the cutest garden gnome.
Holly Rose was a dirty housewife. Remember this costume - it plays an important role later on.
Elizabeth was a very tired pumpkin.
Greg and Suzanne were lightening bugs - their booties even blinked when dusk fell.
Our grumpy strawberry finally found solace in the her rightful place, in the dirt with a dump truck. Things took a sad turn when the dump truck's owner asked for it back, and Sam handed her a spoon to dig with, which she used appropriately, spooning the dirt right into her mouth.
John and Erin had offered up their backyard as a venue for the party, and John played the happy host very well.
And now for the pumpkins - here's the majority of them. The following pictures give you some close-ups with explanations to wow you.
Alex's tragic scene. The pumpkin man in the middle has a hole that is oozing green goo. In the pineapple man's pasta fork hand is the pumpkin man's oozing heart (ie tea strainer covered in green goo). This won 2nd place.
Greg's pumpkin is smoking a pipe - that's a tea light at the end of it. This won 3rd place.
Elvin pumpkin.
Arthur's is entitled - "Los Angeles Burning." Inside the pumpkin, there is an additional smaller pumpkin cut into a flames silhouette, which sits on a rotating disk. The entire thing is lit through LEDs.
Crazy cute eyes.
Even the cupcakes were well designed, courtesy of Alison.
Upper right corner is a Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Boo-ya!
Upper left corner is a pumpkin snowman.
And now the winning pumpkin - remember Holly Rose's housewife costume. It went along with the easy bake oven pumpkin. There is actually a small pie inside the pumpkin (held up with bbq skewers, and the top has electric burners cut into it).
We did not get to stay for the actual judging, as we headed back home for trick-or-treaters (Jess did return for the after party after the littles were asleep). Sam set up his pumpkin on the front porch, which drew many comments on the small pumpkins - one being, "When you carved the small ones - were there seeds?" As our street goes nuts on Halloween, not only was it packed, but some neighbors set out a chocolate fountain, and others brought out margaritas. We got a total of 256 trick-or-treaters, ranging from teeny witches and firemen to a Hooters girl.
Jess with her pea and her strawberry.
2 comments:
You guys need to cut it out. You're putting the rest of us to shame. Jeez.
Other than the tears in the beginning that Halloween looked awesome
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