preparing for the een of hallow

here are the sad things:

- going to a pumpkin patch where there's not even a corn maze, only a bail-of-hay maze. and said bail-of-hay maze leaves a lot to desire...like, for example, height

- making your own apple cider out of your own apples from your own apple tree. only the end result is the consistency of apple sauce and has to be eaten with a spoon and tastes like poop (in the apple cider's defense, i do have a strong food aversion towards apple sauce, so maybe it wasn't that bad...still, there was no sipping of apple cider - just chomping)

here are the happy things:

- dressing your daughter and your dog up in matchy costumes



i'd rather not talk about why
a) there were two identical puppy pumpkin costumes in our holiday box
b) we put a dog costume on our sweet baby girl (you have to admit, it's really cute (but not her REAL halloween costume. stay tuned!)

- bug and her guy came up to carve pumpkins with us. talk about a thick fog of creative juices happening at our house last night. bonus: the boy found a playlist on rhapsody called, "back in black halloween." um....yes please!


the dexterity with which quincy carved her pumpkin was pretty impressive...



literally, right when i inserted this charming picture, i looked outside to admire our work, and a squirrel was eating the boy's pumpkin... that should be in the sad list...

- caramel apples!! i couldn't decide if these should go on the sad or the happy list because, let's be honest, they didn't really turn out (at all). the caramel was waaay runny and didn't even pretend to want to stay on the apples and it was insanely sweet. fail! i put it in the happy list though because it did lead to some pretty serious sugar buzzes, so there was that



and now, for a completely irrelevant and utterly random pop-quiz
q: what word has been stuck in chelsea's head all day long for absolutely no good reason?
a: gefelte fish
ummm.....???