Here are some great pumpkin carving templates. Got to love the shark: http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/pumpkin-carving-decorating/

creepy or not? http://applesinwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/10/good-time.html

I got a funny sugestion from a 4 year old at work today, he said that I should dress up as a baked potato for halloween. Not sure how I'm gonna pull it off, but I'm doing it! I think it will involve one of those foil emergency blankets (supposed to be tin foil!)

Has anyone else noticed the uhm, inappropriate costumes for girls (tweens/teenagers)? What's going on with this trend? I'm so glad my daughter still likes to make her costumes. K-

Alfalfa - Halloween 2010 - totally within the budget !

Funny thing is that the kids in his class didn't know who Alfalfa was!

I want to congratulate Max for winning the prize for the cutest costume in the Halloween parade yesterday! Max is the son of TheMotherhood member "LoveThatMax" and has special needs. He's never liked Halloween. Ellen wrote an article in Redbook this month on Max and Halloween, "Just Call Us Halloweenies" - http://www.redbookmag.com/kids-family/advice/halloween-story Ellen and Max, you are indeed Halloweenies no more!!!! We love your car wash costume! CONGRATULATIONS, MAX!!!!!!!!!!! You do look absolutely adorable!!!!!

My 50's girl

Yes, my 50's girl has a face LOL! And the glasses, made the costume I thought LOL!

My 80's girl

Her and 2 others were all 80's girls and went out together. How fun!

And my little firefighter! (who really didn't want to pose for pictures, but at least I managed to get a couple!)

Reminding myself that searching for a blue Power Ranger costume for a boy that doesn't fit into child-sized costume, isn't so bad. For you mommas of daughters, I feel for you.

Seven Things You Don't Know About the Great Pumpkin.... Snoopy taking first flight as a World War I ace. Charlie Brown taking grief as rocks pile up in his Halloween bag. And Linus taking to his patch as he awaits the mighty Great Pumpkin. The scenes are so deeply poignant and richly imagined that “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” still resonates 45 years after the holiday classic first aired on CBS to high ratings. “Great Pumpkin” debuted nearly a year after the first animated “Peanuts” special — “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — shocked network executives by winning the night and winning over a nation. (Half of all TVs in the United States were tuned to the first airing of “Christmas.”) Read more: http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/article_a02bae34-01e0-11e1-a929-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1cN335Dgm