The Great Pumpkin Extravaganza

Happy Halloween!! For FHE on Monday, we (and the Mitchells) went over to the Chapmans house for a pumpkin extravaganza. They made the cutest pumpkin pizzas and we had "pumpkin juice" and of course, an extremely competitive pumpkin carving contest.

Elle got to hold Gus-Gus. She was in heaven. She LOVES all animals!

We decided to bring our power tools to the party. Power tools are always sure to liven things up, not that anybody needed livening up. They got into a brawl over balls, pictures, and a wet camera (a really expensive camera) with the upstairs neighbors before we arrived.
Elle drew her pumpkin face and had some help cutting it out. The power tools came in very handy as some of our pumpkins had super strong exoskeletons and they were HARD to cut through.
Hannah carved her own this year. She's getting so big!!
Caci and Jace finding a design for their pumpkin design online. Jace is the big birthday boy!! He turned 2 on Monday.... Happy Birthday Jace!

Hannah held Gus-Gus too. For her it took a little more courage. I think he freaked her out a little.
A group shot of Chapmans, Mitchells, and our fam. This picture doesn't do justice to the chaos we brought to their appartment! So fun!!
The finished products... Piper's pumpkin, Elle's pumpkin (they both had multiple faces on theirs, sooo cute) ...

...Matt's super-cool artsy carving of Piper's and Dax's names. It was awesome, even though it doesn't really show up in the picture. He's a fabulous artist!! Jesse's and my bat, Chapman's really cool skull, Jarin's mummy, and Hannah's Jack-O-Lantern.

Jesse konked out around 9:30. I know, it was a late night with the little ones. He slept through a lot of chaos, with everyone playing around him.


We all pretty much saw this all night long. I decided I needed a picture of it.

All in all, we had a super fun night. Thanks Chapmans for having us over!! There are plenty of more pictures, etc on Caci's and Sarah M's blogs.