happy halloween...

It was a busy time at the Kalles household this Halloween. We ended up carving our pumpkins with our neighbors and Ethan was a little scared of the pumpkin innards but loved cutting the pumpkin. He was not the greatest cutter, plus our safety knife broke so I ended up doing most of the work.

Ethan's daycare also had a Halloween parade where the kids got to go and trick-or-treat around the nearby office park. Everyone was parading in their costumes and it was a site to be seen.

We also ventured out and trick-or-treated around our house and visited a nearby house that always has the best decorations for every holiday and Halloween was no exception.

And we actually grew our own pumpkin in our garden this year as well. As you can see below, we will not be winning any prizes for the biggest pumpkin.

Pumpkin Pickin!

Today we hopped in the car with my mom and headed out to meet up with our friends Jeff and Courtney and Wendy, Dennis, and Aitana for some pumpkin picking fun. We all met up at Stockard Farms in Snohomish and ventured into the muddy pumpkin patch. Luckily we all wore boots because the mud was plentiful. After pumpkin picking we came home and carved our finds and Courtney made a batch of her fabulous pumpkin seeds. I also made a homemade beef stew to warm us up after we got home that everyone seemed to enjoy.