Halloween: The Dress, The Ingles and The Pumpkin Carving!

We had a most excellent Halloween over here even though the week leading up to it almost caused me to have a

MENTAL BREAKDOWN!!!

The culprit causing all the problems:

THE DRESS!!

Shaeler decided to be Laura Ingles Wilder for Halloween this year. I looked around the internet and pioneer dresses were selling for $50-$65. No Way! Joanne's Fabric Store was having a huge sale when I went over there to take a look and the pattern only cost me 99 cents. This was just meant to be. So I bought the fabric, figured I'm intelligent, I can follow directions and away I went.

Unfortunately, life goes on and the hours and hours you plan to have are quickly taken for other time deserving activities. So, Wednesday, I sat down at the sewing machine, turned on my favorite old movies and sewed until my brain was fried. Even I didn't know how to do something, I would ask for a little help and then pin, baste and sew, hoping that it would work out. This I can tell you that on the sleeves and the collar, there were hands helping me. There is no way that I just sewed something like that and it turned out alright.

So, after hemming, finishing button holes and placing on the buttons, I threw Shae in the costume and figured whatever will be, will be.

Ladies, here is Laura Ingles Wilder!

I thought I would surprise Shae at her Halloween party and come dressed like her and be Caroline Ingles. She loved that we were in the same dress and it was so fun for me to whip out the old trek clothes. Dang I miss those days!

Caroline and Laura Ingles

After the ward trunk or treat, we headed over to the Bowler home to carve our pumpkins for Halloween. So much fun to pull out pumpkin guts with a friend. Shae and Alpine had a blast for about 5 minutes and then the parentals had to finish the job.

Which in all honesty, who doesn't enjoy being a kid and pulling out pumpkin guts?

I show this picture because check out the hair combes in my hair. Yeah, I did every detail I could to be Carline Ingles, even down to the wedding band. Just thought I would share that little detail.

We are, well you could say "pumpkin carving challenged." We do the typical triangle eyes, nose and the open mouth. I tried to do all circle shapes on my pumpkin. Yeah, it was real original let me tell you!

Shae started drawing her pumpkin face and the eyes were about the size of a dime. I had to encourage her to draw just a little bit bigger and here is her finished product!


We had a wonderful Halloween, hope you did too!