This was the first year the kids were able to carve their pumpkins almost entirely by themselves.
Our totally normal son carved cow udders into the back of his pumpkin.
On the afternoon of Halloween, I took the kids to Umstead for a hike with Andrea and her two kids who were camping there that weekend. It was too cold for us to want to came, plus after so many vacations I was tired of packing and it just wasn't worth it to camp in the wood a few miles from my house. Anyway, we had a nice hike.
When we got back from the hike, one of the neighbors (Monica) had left some treat bags on the porch for our kids. How thoughtful!
That night, after a rushed supper, we head out to trick-or-treat with our neighbors, Kelly and her two sons. It was really fun this year since everybody was outside and had tables set up in their driveways with candy for a contact-free Halloween. I'd been so worried Halloween would be cancelled due to the pandemic. It was so nice to have one fun thing still happen. In fact, it was more fun because people came up with creative ways to distribute candy, such as this lit-up graveyard where the kids had to pluck their candy from amongst the bones. Another yard had a long PVC pipe that they put the candy down like a chute. It also all went faster without having to run up porches and ring doorbells. I loved it.
The kids were all pretty tuckered out after about an hour.
We went back home to our deck where they did some candy trading.
What a fun day!
