A great weekend leading up to Halloween! We started with picking up Emma and Sarah from their early school release. Leslie joined us after work, and we went pumpkin hunting and the local fruit stand. We decided to wait until Saturday morning for the artistic work. The girls are old enough now to pick out their own designs and carve their own pumpkins. I didn’t get a pumpkin but instead served as advisor, helping with some of the more difficult parts like muscling the top out and fetching supplies.

Here are the girls working intently on their pumpkins.

Meanwhile in the kitchen, Janie is harvesting the seeds for roasting, Sweet and Spicy and Salt and Pepper varieties.

And here are the final results.

During the past couple of weeks, we arranged with niece Jennifer DeSanto to get together with their family for a pre-Halloween get-together. Katie had asked me quite a while ago to make a giant Jenga game for her family, so I wanted to finally get it done before our get-together.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the game a lot and they were able reach the sky with the tower!

We had a great evening!

The girls went home after the party, but Leslie stayed overnight again and went to walk the greyhounds with me in the morning.

They set a record with 15 walkers this morning!

(If you are thinking about getting a dog, talk to me about greyhounds.)

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