halloween weekend 2011 - part two - home

[pre surgery]

[taking a break from serious pumpkin carving - meg, my little sister]

[meg]

[our pumpkins actually got carved this year!]

halloween day was spent being lazy and staying close to home, visiting grandma and a sick mum, feasting, carving pumpkins, sipping spiked cider, and watching movies.

not a bad halloween weekend.  though, i will say that it made me realize that i slacked a lot this year with preparation.  next year it will be different!  watch out!

halloween weekend 2011 - part one - charlottesville

[clip from monster squad explaining wolfman's nards]

[shawn's creation]

[my nard was showing]

our weekend included spending some much needed time with some of the most amazing people we know, seeing Monster Squad for the first time(for me anyway), having "wolfman's nards" while watching Monster Squad: "my nards are showing"  "top 'em off!"!  

wolfman's nards:

1 1/2oz vodka(we started off with svedka, and then went with pinnacle's whipped cream vodka..amazing)

1oz kahlua 

3/4 oz cream

lindt chocolate truffles dropped in

my wolfman apparently had a cryptorchid....heh.  

[10.30.2011 before leaving]

[get it.. brighter fires..]

[broken glass cupcakes - red velvet cake with cream cheese, and broken candy glass shards]

[the pumpkin carving skills there were amazing]

on sunday we made it back over the mountain to go see the first show by Brighter Fires, two amazing and talented people(see also Andy Deane of Bella Morte).  they did wonderful for it being 36degrees outside, and their first live run through!  i'm glad that we were able to make it to support.

fall = pumpkin patch

[middle river farms pumpkin patch  weyers cave, virigina]

[at the bottom of the hill]

[i love picking them off the vine, but i'm very careful which means i take longer]

[some of what we left with]

every fall in new mexico we'd go to mccalls pumpkin patch just outside of the city.  i know i know, pumpkins in the desert?  so when we moved back into the mountains of virginia you would assume that would be the first thing we'd do once it was fall again.. yeah not so much.  it's taken us 5 years to get to a pumpkin patch since we've been back in virginia.  that is unacceptable!   so we fixed that on saturday.  

what kills me is that the pumpkin patch we went to is so close to where we live and you pay $25 and fill up an industrial garden wagon with as many pumpkins as you can pick!  i was glad to share wagon space with my sister and my two nieces as well!  the only sad thing is the amount of pumpkins.  granted we did go a bit late, but at least we know when to go next year to get the bigger pumpkins, and the white pumpkins!