Closer to our final look. From painted red brick with gray grout and no shutters to matching toffee crunch brick and grout with black shutters. You have no idea how much work this took. If you see my husband, please high five him!
Sunday afternoon we decided it was time to carve the pumpkins--they only have to last five days to make it to Halloween. What they don't tell you about carving pumpkins is how quickly they rot, begin to smell, and attract millions of bugs. Anyway, it was time. Liv picked our templates for the year--Happy Bat and Happy Hal. Love that positivity. These designs only had a one apple level of difficulty, out of a possible four apples. In years past we have done three apple designs, so these were a breeze and didn't take long. Liv got to do a lot of the work and felt like a big girl. Josie mostly just ate dinner while we carved, maybe next year she'll be more aware. Also, notice in the pictures that the house is fantastic toffee crunch color. I am off to paint the last set of shutters, hopefully those will get put on the house this afternoon, and then I'll post completed house pictures. And by complete, I mean the three sides of the house that can be seen from the road. The back of the house is still totally primer white...only so many hours in the day!
In looking back over my 2 billion Halloween themed blogs, I can tell I posted them at the end of long days. I stopped giving a lot of details about the pictures...you know in keeping with the old phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words". Halloween night Kevin and I thought it would be fun to Josie do some actual trick-o-treating. Josie disagreed. We went to the Boardwalk and made a mild attempt to have Josie go store to store and ask for candy. Instead, we ended up playing Josie's new game called "This Way". She grabs your finger. And, to be clear, we can't hold her hand but she will hold ours. It's all about control with that little lady. Anyway, she grabs a hand and announces which way to run. It's always the same--towards a curb so she can practice doing steps with an immediate 180 to go back down the curb and head back to the starting point. Over and over we do this. I figure surely I am burning more calories doing that than any sedentary activity. Kevin's hunger overtook him, and to Notini's we went. That ended our whirlwind Halloween. I undecorated the house today, and the pumpkins will go out with the trash on Monday. These pictures are from different Halloween activities. My fave is the one of the girls at the Pumpkin Patch. Josie watched a plane until it flew out of sight and the picture is her asking Liv where it went? Where is our favorite question at home. I guess that's all I can say about Halloween. I have a State Fair blog to do next, but I am not sure I am up for it tonight. Until next time....
