Happy Halloween everyone! And…more importantly…happy birthday to my wonderful momma. Growing up, Halloween was a special holiday for us. It was an opportunity to dress up and get great candy but it was also a day we spent with friends and family to celebrate my mom’s birthday. Every year, we’d eat take-out pizza and birthday cake before donning our costumes and heading to the biggest neighborhood we could find to trick-or-treat.
This weekend was quite a bit different from the Halloweens I experienced as a kid but no less wonderful. Completely un-Halloween related but the Cardinals won the World Series on Friday night and MU had a terrific come from behind win against Texas A&M on Saturday afternoon…I knew the weekend was shaping up to be pretty terrific. We spent Saturday night with some of our closest friends who know how to throw a heck of a party. The evening had a very simple equation…Food + Alcohol + Twister & Ultimate Ping Pong = A GREAT TIME! JPug and I were vampires…
Sunday afternoon we volunteered at the KC Zoo with Tiger Stripes (an MU Alumni Association service organization) for Boo at the Zoo. We enjoyed the beautiful weather while handing out candy to hundreds of metro children. We continued the vampire theme which was a total hit…most of the kids were mesmerized by my fangs which I assured them were NOT real :)
The big weekend culmination was pumpkin carving with friends. JPug and I used patterns while Blake & Mary free-handed their masterpieces. I think this might be the first time JPug and I have ever carved pumpkins together but this was Blake & Mary’s 5th Annual Carve-Off. Check out the pictures below and vote for your favorite in the comments section…Pumpkin “A” is on the right and Pumpkin “B” is on the left.
The big weekend culmination was pumpkin carving with friends. JPug and I used patterns while Blake & Mary free-handed their masterpieces. I think this might be the first time JPug and I have ever carved pumpkins together but this was Blake & Mary’s 5th Annual Carve-Off. Check out the pictures below and vote for your favorite in the comments section…Pumpkin “A” is on the right and Pumpkin “B” is on the left.
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| Duren A (Right) Duren B (Left) |
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| Pug Pumpkins |
Today’s the big Trick-or-Treat day…have fun, be safe and don’t be stingy with that candy!
All the pumpkins look great but between the two votes...two votes go to pumpkin B (the one with the little pumpkins).
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