Final Results

Here are the end results from the party.

 Dad's mummy above--

 Left to right: Joleen for Ian, Dad sugar skull, Dad another sugar skulls, Andrew's cat (he has a love of carving cats), Casey rockin some old school, and last Mom's rockin another old school with the gummy effect.

 Above is the back side of Joleen's which was a masterpiece by ELENA--

Front door before all pumpkins were put out to show the neighborhood.

We had another great time carving and laughing---score!

Pumpkins and Kids

Here are the kids with the multi use pumpkin. Ian enjoyed turning the pumpkin into a cannibal
(eating another pumpkins lid). Elena working her "carving magic".

Time to get Carvin!

It is that time of the year again already! We had our pumpkin carving night and I think we all did 

pretty well!

 Moms pumpkin above-

 Joleen doing a pumpkin pirate on one side for Ian-

Ian supervising the clean out above----- The pumpkin Joleen had was a multi-faced pumpkin---first she made the pirate for Ian, then Ian practiced his stabbing skills on it...then came in Elena and she went to town on the opposite side carving for her very first time! Elena did quite well!

Who is this?

A little girl in disguise..who is it? Princess Elena! Elena decided to make up her own princess outfit. First she put on my skirt and had me clip it up as a long flowing dress, next she put on a tiara we got as a party favor and last she borrowed my fan from Tia Mari's wedding ( she was very gentle and no harm came to the fan -lol )

Dance Party

Recently we had a good friend of Elena's over and during her visit

we had a dance party! All three kids danced their little hearts out showing each other all their newest moves and tuckered themselves out!

Girls too!

Last time we visited and went on the big toys Elena was very nervous and didn't want to do it..this time as you can see was a far different change of pace!

There really was so many visits and memories that got left out this trip because we kept forgetting our camera, but they were all important and will all be remembered!

Let's Get Dirty!!

How many people can go into a scrap metal/ recycling yard and play on any equipment they want, right? Here we are at Papa's family business playing on the "big toys". Mom use to play here quite often as a young child all through growing up...part of having fun is getting dirty, making a mess, and lots of loud noise!

(This is Ian's favorite part of the whole trip each time!)