little woman

Yay! Another successful Halloween. I finally finished my Wonder Woman pumpkin which was alright but couldnt compare to Paul’s Cylon pumpkin.

Made this pumpkin for work…

On Friday night we went to Andy’s Halloween Party Part 1 @ Castle Greybeard. This year we went as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. This is what we were going for…

and here we are!

We woke up Saturday morning and drove to Dallas to see They Might Be Giants @ The House of Blues. Paul’s parents met us there. It was a great show!

We immediately turned around and came home so we could give out candy to trick-or-treaters. We had spooky noises coming through the library window that you could hear on the front porch (think chainsaw noises while a woman is screaming or creaking doors and a slow, menacing footfall). There were tons of kids, we ran out of candy, and one kid got really scared on our front porch! WIN!

Then we went to Andy Halloween Party Part 2 @ Dustin & Catsilo’s place. Good times had by all! There were SO many great costumes this year! Here are all my Halloween pics! Hope you made it back home alive!

Love.

This.

Holiday.

The family. The friends. The smell of the real Christmas tree. The MUSIC!! They weren’t kidding when they said it is the most wonderful time of the year! I had a wonderful holiday with Paul, my family and his. We all got and gave fabulous presents!! I hate to see this time of year end Here are the pics…

seriously mary… gonna STICK!

sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters

the patterson clan

good family pic

yes virginia, that IS an ice slide

nom, nom, nom

fiddler on the couch

awesome new ornament from Things Celtic here in Austown

building a gingerbread house with Snow, Snow, Snow in the background… it doesnt get more Christmas than that!!

on to New Years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy 2009!

Thanksgiving has come and gone… We had such a great time! Here is a link to the pics but I have included a few of my favorite

Abbie makes the best lattice top this (and probably that) side of the Mississippi!!

gobble gobble

Mom put some of Aunt Mary Alice’s ivy into the arrangements at the funeral… She loved her ivy!

mary… so appropriate

FALL!

So when Halloween comes around I get so obsessed with pumpkins… I LOVE to carve pumpkins and like to try recipes with pumpkin seeds… This is what I have accomplished so far this year… and we may even have one more!

Everybody’s favorite Presidential candidate

This is on the same pumpkin but to the side…

And then last night I carved a dragon!

It cast the most beautiful shadow on the ceiling…

Paul may be too sore from backpacking the Grand Canyon to carve his this year… I found a Darth Vader pattern that I might try

Check out Halloween 2007…

This was my pirate ship… it was pre-digital camera… this was taken with a cell phone… bleh

And this was Paul’s… It took him several hours but it was awwwwwwwsome