Here we are at Joe's farm pumpkin patch. Usually we go to the pumpkin patch at sauvie island with the corn maze but we didn't have time and the weather was not that great for walking in the corn maze. We got our pumpkins and had a good time.

We just got home and could not wait to carve our pumpkins. Everyone was getting started and when I began poking the holes in my pumpkin I wondered how everyone else was having such an easy time and I was struggling so much. After everyone tried to poke some holes in my pumpkin I discovered I had picked out one that had super tough skin. I poked and I jabbed and I hurt my hand and my pumpkin was almost indestructible. We nicknamed it the super pumpkin. Until we got out the power tools. John attempted to cut the top off with a saw but soon realized it wasn't working out so well but eventually we got the top off and I ended up carving it with a high powered drill with different size bits. So if you want to carve your pumpkin don't get one with lots of warts because then you have to use power tools.

So here they are all carved up. I think they all turned out great, even super pumpkin.

Here is john being funny and trying to freak out the kids. Rory really thought that was funny.

Here they are, ready to go. You cant see it in the picture but Rory's elephant costume had butt and belly padding to plump her up. It was the hot topic at all the houses. We went all around our neighborhood and we stayed out for 2 hours. It was fun to see our neighborhood and all the decorations. When we got back we went through all the loot and we managed to have a few trick or treaters and the kids really liked handing out the candy also, but I think they liked getting the candy better. John and I was really surprised at how much candy we ended up with for just going around the block and a few circles. We were talking and it seemed like there was a lot of older couples and they handed out grips of candy at every stop. So for not going to a ton of houses we scored. Our neighbor Dave gave out giant Tootsie rolls and they were so excited about that. They also scored on a lot of full size candy bars and I was really pleased with the amount of chocolate treats they got. We had a great Halloween.