Oregon Holts: Happy Skeletons

We talk a lot about "happy skeletons" around here. Noella has recently developed quite a vivid imagination (I know, that totally doesn't sound like her). This imagination comes with ghostly, witchly, spooky fears (and I'm talking refusing to walk from one room to the other sometimes because there's a skeleton hiding under her bed, or there's a witch in the grass). While I love the fact that she is creative and imaginative, dammit, you can at least walk from the couch to the kitchen on your own. So, we try and talk about happy skeletons, friendly ghosts and witches.... etc... Daddy was a skeleton for Halloween, so maybe that helped a bit. He's pretty happy and friendly.

We were a little under the weather on Halloween. Noella and I stayed home from work/school and got in some long naps, in hopes of a little bit of celebrating. Our family was invited to the neighbors' house for chili prior to trick or treating - which was a great way to meet a few more people in the neighborhood and get to know our next door neighbors better. We love this neighborhood! It was a bit rainy and a lot cold, so I think we made it to 10 houses (all of which were elaborately decorated; One house even handed out PBRs to the parents - genius!)

Before Halloween, we needed to carve our pumpkin. Noella and I painted our pumpkins, but we saved Daddy's big pumpkin for carving (because he's really the best at it anyway). She helped, I took pictures.