Google had a small Halloween gathering yesterday afternoon. I did my best to get Eden downtown well rested but she ended up not sleeping very well. So Chad and I took turns with her and carving pumpkins for the pumpkin carving contest. In the background Google was playing horror flicks which wasn’t conducive to a baby napping. Lots of my coworkers told me how little Eden looks. But I had been thinking that I no longer have to hold her head up, so she is getting huge.

Chad did a Frankenstein pumpkin. I forgot to put the bolts under the ears so it really just ended up being a guy with thick eyebrows. Chad was bragging to everyone about my mad pumpkin carving skills. I was under a lot of pressure to produce a masterpiece. I ended up doing a mediocre “Cow Jumped Over the Moon” scene. If I had professional tools it would have been better. Elisa sounds like such a perfectionist all of a sudden. I must have been really concentrating while I was carving because people kept coming up and asking to take action shots of me. We snacked a bit on brain muffins and Smore pie just long enough to stick around for the pumpkin carving results.  Out of probably 20 pumpkins 6 were winners, but I was still pumped that I was one of them! I got a lift ticket to Hoch Ybrig.

We went over to the Mascaros for the evening. The Jacksons were there too. All the kids got dizzy off of the sugar cookies they decorated. We attempted to make root beer. It was pretty successful after we practically doubled the already high sugar content. We played games and talked about Proposition 8, (allowing or disallowing homosexual marriages). It is nice to have people you can talk openly with and have a mature discussion regardless of differences in opinion.

By the way, I dressed up as a mom for Halloween and Eden was a little caterpillar in a cocoon. Technically she was just asleep in her swaddle but that doesn’t sound as exciting.