It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises from his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys to all the children.

I used to work at Frank Elementary with Maryellen and Amy. After I left (when Spencer was born) Joni took my position and Lauren, Shireen and Brenda started working there too. Now Amy and Shireen have had babies so they left and then Joni left to do home health speech therapy. We're having monthly get togethers in an effort to still see each other on a regular basis. I hosted a pumpkin carving party today for the October gathering. We're all going to be at the same Halloween party in 2 weeks as well, so October has extra togetherness.

The day started with Joshua showing off his new pair of.....pumpkins! He's going to be the Alan character from The Hangover for Halloween. It's going to be awesome.

Jacob gave us a preview of his costume. Then he had a sip of daddy's beer 'cause that costume was dang hot. We all got down to pumpkin carving business. Shira (in the blue tank top) also came to today's festivities. She's a teacher in the same district as Frank Elementary.Maryellen

Shireen

Amy and Shira
And there's our pumpkin. Uncarved.
Because our carver was too busy snacking.
Amy
Maryellen

Finally. Michael got into the activity.

Amy helped Spencer

Lauren

Desmond and Jacob played in the ball pit while their mommies were creating pumpkin art

Ginger napped

Jacob got tired of the ball pit and cuddled with his daddy

Maryellen and I celebrated our 5th anniversary of knowing each other

The finished pumpkins

Our pumpkin has a happy face

Amy's is a dragon

Maryellen's has a sad face (according to Spencer)

Lauren's is a cat

Shira's is an entirely different type of cat

Joni's is a spider

Shireen's is......something. I forget. She came up with her own design and then something went wrong so it didn't look like what she wanted.

It was a successful carving party if I do say so.

Joshua flipped Spencer upside down and tickled him. Spencer tooted quite close to his face.

Desmond was the train conductor

Ginger napped some more

Shireen forgot what holiday we were celebrating

Lauren just posted this on facebook. I think this is the coolest pumpkin I have ever seen.
Our pumpkin is in the refrigerator. We're going to try to have it last until Halloween. I have a feeling we'll be carving a new one in 2 weeks.

By the way. We went to San Diego last week. I'll be blogging about that soon. Just as soon as I finish the 5 evaluation reports and 26 progress reports that I promised I would do over fall break.