One Hundred Posts! Also, Happy Halloween!

This is my 100th post!  

*Celebration! Fanfare! Merriment!*

Ok, also, Halloween:

We went to Kristy and Eric's house and then later to their friend Sarah's house to celebrate Halloween.  Here is a tour of the costumes:

 Kristy was Grumpy Bear

 I was the Hamburglar

 Lee was Brian Wilson

The costume required some preparation
(Yep, a mowhawk)

I feared the beard

 Eric was a vampire
He got bloodier and bloodier as the night went on.
Like a real vampire?
I'm sure they're more careful.

 Blood...

 Bloodier....

 I mean...

 But best ensemble BY FAR goes to the four people who dressed up as the Golden Girls!
Only ONE person is wearing a wig!
I LOVE THE GOLDEN GIRLS!

Upsetting News

Something is eating our tiny pumpkins.

 What?  It ate all the way inside!

This one seems to have only cosmetic damage.

I've gone through the usual range of emotions: anger, denial, bargaining, and now acceptance.  But what could it be?  I seriously have no idea.  Who/what eats a tiny pumpkin?

We Went to Halloween

Yes, so Pumpkin Farm, Round Two.

Explaining to a group of students that don't understand a word you say that we are going on a field trip to the pumpkin patch is HILARIOUS.  One kid shouted out, "We're going to Halloween?!!?!" Which was close enough, so I told him yes.

The day really was so so great!  All of the kids were incredibly well behaved, the bus was on time, the Pumpkin Farm is really well organized, and I had some awesome adults (including Lee's mom!) helping me out.

 Christi was great at making sure no one fell out of the hayride. 

 The ride was so beautiful.

 Near the end of our trip I told the students it was time to pick out pumpkins.   When I was little (yesterday) I used to spend a ridiculous amount of time looking over every pumpkin in order to locate the most perfect one.  The Pumpkin Farm is equipped with about a million pumpkins, and I wanted to make sure we made it back to school before dark so I set a time limit.  I told them they had exactly six minutes to choose a pumpkin.  I thought I was so clever, making sure those kids didn't spend hours scouring the patch, and, just like always, they made all my plans for not.  When I said, "You have six minutes...go!" They all bent over and grabbed the nearest pumpkin, then swarmed towards me like sharks to raw meat because I was the one holding the sharpie that would write their names on the pumpkins, making them theirs forever.

 Christi caught some of the swarm on camera.

 Yeah, I like to wear my backpacks in the front.

Way to go guys.  

Now it's time for juice.

Frightful Family Fun

 I wanted to visit The Pumpkin Farm before I took my class there on a field trip, so Lee and I loaded up all of our...well, Starbucks, and headed out to the farm.

I LOOOVED The Pumpkin Farm!

There were pumpkins, there were animals, there were strange, strange scarecrows, there was a band of old men playing "We're From the Country" (sort of Nevada County's anthem).

I mean, they had a few pumpkins.

 Also, there was corn.

 And a fatty pumpkin

 Look at these monsters at school.  

I know what you must be thinking:

 Why is that pig studying Investments?

 Like I said, lots of pumpkins

 Francis?

 So, more of these

 These scrap people were cute.

 This one was a little slutty.

 I diligently searched for the perfect pumpkin

 Found!

 Also, Lee had great success.

 We will take seven of your over-priced pumpkins, Thank you.

 I'm like the Bob Ross of pumpkins.

 Eh, maybe not

 Success!

 I love the Pumpkin Patch.  

I think I'll go again tomorrow.

*Note* I did not come up with this post title all on my own.  This is actually a genre of movies available on OnDemand right now.  I cannot watch Halloween movies under the "Halloween Moviethon" collection because I am a huge baby and refuse to watch anything scarier than The Addams Family.  I'm still working up the courage for Corpse Bride.