Halloween USA

I've been enjoying a last minute visit to the USA and got to celebrate Halloween!!  November 2 is All Saint's Day in Bolivia and it involves praying for spirits in hopes that they will avoid torment and making sacrifices in the cemetery, so our church there is solidly against anything that might even look related to participation in such activities.

But not in the USA :)

My little sister and I carved pumpkins...

I may have forgotten just how gross gutting a pumpkin can be!

It was my very first time using a pumpkin carving kit instead of just chopping out triangles with a kitchen knife.  So I copied a design from the booklet but changed the letters to spell my last name!

Adrian was much faster and more detailed than I was.  Her pumpkin got ooh's and aah's from the trick or treat crowd.

I spent pretty much the entire time that kids were coming to the door back at the table trying to separate all of the seeds to be roasted.  Mom found about 4 recipes online, so I attempted to follow one and they didn't come out too bad at all!  

In the end we had to turn out all the lights because we ran out of candy.  I remember being really little and running out of candy one Halloween.  My parents scrambled all over the house looking for loose change to hand out instead!