Trick or Treat & All that Fun Stuff

Hola! I'm back.  I went MIA last week because our whole family got to serve in an AMAZING ministry at church called Judgement House.  It's a walk through drama that takes the participants through scenes depicting the gift that God gave us all through His Son Jesus and the consequences of rejecting that gift.  In two weeks over 6,000 people walked through Judgement House and over 2,000 made decisions to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior!  To say that our family was blessed to serve this way is an understatement. 

Between all the time we spent at church last weekend we were able to squeeze in a little more pumpkin fun.  Abby wanted to do something crafty Saturday so we broke out some spray paint, craft paint and did up a couple more pumpkins.

Cute right?  Abby made the polka dots all by herself and used spray paint for the first time....makes a mother proud!

This one we just spray painted and pinned a trick or treat ribbon around.  Simple but fun.

We even broke out some chalk paint....okay I was using it for another project but who says you can't chalk paint a pumpkin.

Aidan didn't get in on any of the pumpkin fun because he was busy saving us from all kinds of bad guys out to get us.  Every home needs a GOOD ninja!

Hope you all had a Great Halloween and are eating just as much of your kiddos candy as I am!!

Pumpkin Love

I haven't bought any pumpkins yet this year but I'm thinking that will change this weekend!  My porch feels naked without them.  Dawn across the street is winning the pumpkin war with several on hers making it so festive!!

My dirty little secret though is that I really don't like to carve pumpkins.  Bob is great about doing it with the kids and gets very detailed and creative.  I on the other hand will use anything handy to keep me from having to scrape pumpkin guts but still get fun pumpkins this time of year.  So today I thought about last years favorite pumpkins and wanted to share.....

This one was the menu at our Halloween Chili Party.  A Sharpie marker and no dirty hands :)

The same pumpkin then got a coat of spray paint and a message of "Give Thanks"  The little one next to it was beautiful in gold.

T for Turner or T for Thanksgiving either way it's fun.

The Polka dot was my favorite!  Add one more to the top of a terra cotta pot and it's a Fall vignette (fancy talk for a grouping).

Okay I changed my mind...this one Abby did is my FAVORITE!!!!  In addition to being adorable she has a heart for Jesus that brings tears to my eyes.  Her faith shines brighter than the glow of this pumpkin!

I've stolen borrowed some ideas from blogland for some very cool pumpkins this year and I'll be sharing sometime soon.  What are your favorite ways to dress up a pumpkin?