Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

29 October 2009

pumpakins and apples

Autumn is great for many reasons. These reasons include pumpakins and apples covered in caramel. Well, only the apples are covered in caramel, I guess. The pumpakins are carved out and lit from the inside. You could probably cover pumpkins in caramel and carve out an apple and light it too (...hmmm...maybe next year I'll try it) but that's not the standard.

Here are some people we know and like with their pumpakins.
(I should say we like them regardless of whether or not they have their pumpkins.)
Notice the concentration involved in the preliminary process. Good pumpkins result when these steps are carefully taken.
An excellent sketch (she's an artist). Will it translate well onto the pumpkin?
Stay tuned to find out.

Here's Nick working hard on our pumpakin. He did the whole thing by himself this year. Feel free to let him know what a nice job he did.

Some pumpkins come in a more different shape. Here are the boys with a sweet little ladies' night pumpkin. Her footies were even labeled "little pumpkin." Brookston was trying to make his way over to put on the moves. You can see him swinging his arm about wildly to get her attention. It didn't work.

Caramel has to be melted to stick to the apple of course and we made sure ours was nice and stirrable. Here's one of our stirrers extraordinaire.

And here are the wonderful apples themselves. I decided to dip mine pre-sliced and was extremely happy with the results. I'll dip my apples like this for years to come. I had a big apple to start with anyway, and I'm not talking about New York. I have a nice friend in New York though, he's very fashionable.

We party hard here with our pumpakins and apples and our little tykes just can't keep up, bless them. Here they are taking a little nipper napper in the next room.
Meanwhile, here I am enjoying my delicious apple:



And here's the pumpakin line-up. Does the pumpkin on the far left look familiar? Yeah, that's because they did pre-lims. And all that concentration paid off on that butterfly. Our pumpakin is the twinners smiling and the excellently topped pumpakin is just excellently topped, I must say. It gets a gold star.


Nick addition: I added 2 new songs to the bottom of our playlist. I find the Japanese and Swedish voices interesting.

04 November 2008

pumpakins thru the ages.

Nicole speaking: Every year since 2005 I've carved Pumpakins with my boo, Nick. Let's take a look:
October 2005
Nicole: Super Noodle
and
Nick: Smitten Grin

October 2006

Nicole: Cat
and
Nick: Love

October 2007

Nicole: Holy Pumpakin (Nick called it Disco Pumpkin)
and
Nick: Stick Cat/ Space Worm (it's double sided)

October 2008

Nick and Nicole: The Birthday Monkey takes over Halloween

Nick Speaking: Thus we see that the longevity of relationships is directly proportional to the number of pumpkins carved per person per Halloween squared.