Carving Pumpkins and Frosting Cookies

I am really bad when it comes to getting holiday stuff done; something usually gets left out, like frosting cookies or we never get all the pumpkins carved. This was a good year, though! Mom came down and we did it all in one day.

Just getting started.



Mom carving her pumpkin.



Zach and Mom cutting out sugar cookies. We had a whole lot of cats and bats!



The final products:


I was really proud of my Frankenstein monster and mummy.

It's finally over!

I had a yard sale to help take care of some of Mom's stuff, well, Steve's stuff for Mom, and it's finally over. My garage isn't exactly empty, but you can walk around in it now, the people are gone, the "will you take 70 cents for this?" is over, and I can finally quit worrying about it. It's just a yard sale, but it's astounding how much time it takes! The kids wanted to have a lemonade stand, which was a great idea, and we thought cookies would be a good idea, too. I think they only sold about 10 cups of lemonade, but they sold out all the cookies! They even had people coming back for seconds, and one person wanted a recipe. It was a good day, all things considered, and now my arms and knees have a nice tan.