Halloween of firsts

We love Halloween around here, in previous years we have celebrated in a small quiet way at home, carving pumpkins, making decorations and enjoying seeing all the trick or treaters. This year Emy was very keen to go trick or treating too, so I agreed we could visit a couple of the neighbours houses and then drive down to suprise nanny in their costumes.

At the weekend we tried something new, we made a Gingerbread house! The baking, building and decorating took us 3 days, we baked it on day 1 (Saturday) built it on day 2 and for fear of it collapsing, we saved the decorating until Halloween itself. For a first attempt, Im pretty pleased with it, although the perfectionist in me had a hard time allowing the kids anywhere near it once the roof was on. Emy is keen to give it another go next year :-)



Another first is that we have carved our very own home grown pumpkin lantern. I have wanted to grow our own for a few years and we finally managed it, even if it was a green one with an orange bottom!











We made our usual decorations, built paper skeletons and lit lots of candles





Then it was time for the kiddo's first trick or treating :-)