How I Spent My Halloween!

The morning was spent at training. . . training to become a CASA (court appointed special advocate) worker.  Scary, but rewarding stuff!

Later in the day I went to help out at a safe Halloween event.  Austin’s House is a local emergency shelter for kids that was started by some CASA workers.  I volunteered to take a shift to pass out candy.  When I got there, our spot was all decked out.

It did not occur to me to dress up like they did in the neighboring booth.  So cute!

Then I went home and passed out candy at our own home.  We didn’t mind having leftovers!

Scarily Ambitious

I stink at decorating, always have.  I feel like most anything I do looks pretty dorky. 
But this year, I tried to do MORE. 
I was feeling a little batty . . . .

and decided it was time to try my hand at pumpkin carving.  We hadn’t had a pumpkin grace our doorstep ever since all our pumpkins were smashed within less than an hour of placing them outside.
I have no memories of ME ever carving a pumpkin so it was time to create a new memory. Paul gets as excited about decorating as I do, so he was not overly thrilled with the prospect of pumpkin carving (someone had to help the kids all those years), so I was on my own.
I bought what I thought looked like a reasonable pumpkin

and a pumpkin carving kit complete with patterns.  So I picked an easy one. . . it would be embarrassing to fail and have to buy ANOTHER pumpkin.

I “think” I followed the instructions in addition to taking a sufficient amount of pictures. 

TaDa!  I learned I could do it and that pumpkin guts are disgusting.  Now I have to decide if I’m going to try a harder one next year, or stop while I’m ahead!