Happy Halloween and . . .

Goodbye Daylight Savings Time!

If you live here in the States (or anywhere else where Halloween is celebrated), I hope you had a wonderful Halloween! This year I answered the door and handed out candy, and all those little trick or treaters were cute as all get out!

Hubby and the Wild Child stayed up late talking on Friday night, so they both slept in this morning while I cleaned house and got a start on my weekend chores--of course, that meant I could be lazy later in the day while they were catching up on THEIR chores! Around midday, when Hubby and I talked about what needed to be done before evening, I asked him to get the pumpkins carved and clean up the porch and driveway for the trick-or-treaters. The funny thing was that when I estimated it would take him about four hours to get those things done, he looked at me like I was nuts. So, I couldn't resist--two hours into his chores, and this is how far he'd gotten--

And I have to tell you--I was the one who brought the pumpkins outside and set them on the patio table! Of course everything got done in time, and I took a photo of the porch area--Soccer Son has been re-doing our front yard and nearly has the pavers laid for our extended patio, but it's still a work in progress, as you can see if you look closely. And, I didn't realize it at the time, but the photo I took doesn't get the whole pumpkin picture--good thing I took a couple closer photos of Hubby's handy work!

We had to do some creative roping off of a couple of the areas that were still a little hazardous, like the new patio--we used strings of lights to create a bit of a barrier. Although I didn't get a photo, we have piles of gravel, sand, and pavers in the driveway along with a wheelbarrow, and we used a string of flashing, noise-making motion sensor lights to block that area off. Several of the kids who came to the house commented on how much they liked Hubby's pumpkin pot man--isn't he cute?! He's hiding behind the pillar in the photo above, but here's his close up--

And here's the large pumpkin Hubby carved, sitting in a chair to greet the kids--

Finally, I thought you might like to see the Wild Child--can you tell how she got her nickname?! I hope she's having fun tonight, dancing and partying--and I hope my little witch doesn't get into too much trouble! (Her dad, by the way, is hoping she'll keep her sweater on all evening. Think there's any chance of THAT happening?!)

Time for bed . . . just as soon as I turn the clocks back an hour! And can you believe it's NOVEMBER already?!