Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love the crispness in the night air. I love hanging out with neighbors and the fact that when you run into them on the street, one of them might be dressed up as a bloody pumpkin. (That would be the dad, not the kid.) My own costume this year was a mish-mash that included horns, Pippi’s friend Mr. Nilsson (whom Pippi got tired of carrying) and Percy Jackson’s lightning bolt (because it kept poking our friend Ethan, who was dressed as a bottle of ketchup). Add to that a bag of candy and some roasted pumpkin seeds. Seriously, what’s not to love?
My favorite candy bar this year is the Snickers bar, probably related to the fact that I still think of it as the unofficial candy bar of journalists. (Didn’t know that journalists had their own candy bar? Then you clearly don’t remember this TV commercial.)
This year my husband had thumb surgery right before Halloween, which put him out of the picture for our pumpkin carving. I think I did okay as surrogate, but my son wasn’t leaving anything to chance, as you can see from these blueprints:
Final product. The dry ice obscures the fangs, but trust me, they're there.
Thanks everyone!!
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Love those blueprints! 😀
I am very impressed with your carving skillz, Mad! Right now I’m off the sugar (among other things), but snickers are one of my favorites, especially frozen fun size ones.
B is a big fan of Razzles, which might fall into your criteria. But the kids didn’t get any. I don’t mind the stringy messiness so much, though it does somehow remind me of working at Wendy’s.
HURRAY FOR HALLOWEEN!
Kudos on the pumpkin; I ended up carving three (“ewww its slimy! MMMMOOOOMMMM will you do it!?!”) and none of them looked as good as yours. Every Halloween I realize that I sincerely dislike the cold, stringy messiness of carving pumpkins.
And, although a fan of all miniature chocolate-based candy bars, I have to confess to having removed all of the Bottle Caps from the Willie Wonka mix in the treat bowl before the trick-or-treaters even arrived. I generally dislike sugary candy, but rootbeer and soda flavored sugary-ness is mighty fine.