{"id":1288,"date":"2010-11-02T22:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T02:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2010-11-02T22:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T02:37:46","slug":"pumpkins-and-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1288","title":{"rendered":"pumpkins and candy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s what halloween is about around here. Picking out the perfect pumpkins and collecting the sweet stuff. There are a few too many sweet teeth around here (most of them are in MY mouth). <\/p>\n

After church on Sunday, we stopped by a popular produce stand that had lots of nice looking pumpkins. We jumped out of the truck and quickly fanned out…<\/p>\n

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Marley lost her focus, picked up gourds, and started lifting weights. Focus, child…<\/p>\n

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As usual, Ethan went for the BIG pumpkins. It’s usually the boys in the family that decide on the carving theme for the year. I let them have their fun. <\/p>\n

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Lainey stops to smell the…uh…mums. <\/p>\n

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Abbey and Lainey take time to pose in front of the sign…a quick shout out to our friend, Josh (no relation!). <\/p>\n

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Back to hunting…<\/p>\n

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This one, mama!!<\/p>\n

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and, the BIG one is chosen. Now, home to carve…<\/p>\n

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The kids chose the cartoon character Domo…we weren’t sure what exactly that was, but it was cute. <\/p>\n

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Now, to the costumes…<\/p>\n

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The girls took our new state into account and went with a cowgirl theme. Yee haw. <\/p>\n

Now, brace yourselves for the boys. <\/p>\n

They didn’t really have any clue what they wanted to do, so we went to the store and just looked around. They found these plain masks and a couple of wigs, added some black clothes and…<\/p>\n

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…came up with this. I think these masks are CREEPY. You think of scary halloween masks and you think Freddy Krueger, etc. Nah. These mannequin things are just weird. They loved them. <\/p>\n

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Whew. Onto something much cuter. Lainey wanted to be a butterfly, so we bought some wings and gold glitter hair spray (hard to see, it looked really cute) and voila. As I thought back, Lainey has been a ladybug, fairy, and now a butterfly. She likes wings, obviously. <\/p>\n

We took the kids around our neighborhood for a while, and then drove to another neighborhood across the street where friends live. They loaded up…<\/p>\n

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Happy “How-way-een” everyone :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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