Halloween Pictures
Well, it has been a few days since I posted on here, so I thought I would give a quick update. The other day (like 2 weeks ago) Lenie and I were getting ready for Halloween by carving a pumpkin. As you can see from the pictures below, we were really proud about our efforts. Strangly enough, with all my awesome skills, pumpkin carving is not one of them. Lenie comes from a long line of wood carvers in the family, and apparently those carving skills transfer over to pumpkins as well. We tried to make a “scary face” pumpkin. I started cutting it up myself, but apparently I wasn’t “good enough” so I let Lenie take over and fix my work.
Shortly after Halloween, Lenie decided that she was ready for Christmas decorations, so we have gone and bought a Christmas tree which is being desplayed proudly during the first week of November. In the Philippines, people usually start setting up for Christmas in September, so we aren’t that early. Pictures of that are to come.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Fun to look at your pictures. Cute pumpkin! Can’t wait to see your christmas decorations!
November 11th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
That is really a nice pumpkin. Can’t wait for more pictures and posting.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
This is my first time here. Your header picture is beautiful. Thanks for he pictures.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Looks much better than ours, after several trips to the ER over the years from trying to carve stubborn pumpkins we have given up. Now we just use markers.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:55 am
That’s one great looking Jack-o-lantern. Do they really start decorating for Christmas as early as September? I’m looking forward to seeing pics of your Christmas decorations – roll on the holidays
November 18th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Great pics, I love Halloween and I enjoy seeing other people celebrating it as well. I think we should celebrate Halloween starting after Labor day and have it go through Oct 31st.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Cool.. prepare for christmas from now is okay, we can buy the the decoration from now because i think if we buy that in december, iam afraid we can got nothing because many people will buy that too.. buy early, get early but not celebrate chrismast early
November 19th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
indeed.
over here in manila, i think i already started hearing christmas carols in the malls more than a month ago. 
November 21st, 2008 at 3:56 am
lol I don’t put my decorations up until a few weeks before Christmas, sounds like you take Christmas more of a occasion so I’ll look forward to seeing some photos of your deco.
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 am
Awesome pumpkin, I gotta admit though you look a little bit evil in the third picture as your cutting it
Look forward to seeing your Christmas pics
December 1st, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I think I’m the worst pumpkin carver evar. I did however build a life sized satin lined coffin this past year. It’s what the wife wanted for Chrismas. She’s a bit of a weird one, but she loves Halloween. =)
December 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Thank you for the pictures. It is nice of you to share.
December 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
It is a lot of work to carve a pumpkin, and the one you did looks great!
December 16th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I am sure we can’t grow pumpkins like that done here…ours are mostly green and small
December 19th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Beautiful pumpkin. Can’t wait to see the picture of your christmas tree. Merry Christmas.
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 am
Yes Philippines always starts Christmas preparation when its already in -ber months (september,october,november). They have very close family ties and enjoys much during these holidays.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Hi Jeff And Lenie,
When I first saw the picture of the pumpkin I nearly fell of my chair. I thought you had beheaded my mother-in-law.
Then I realized what it was….. never mind. Looks like I am stuck with the old witch.
All the best
john
January 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Carving the pumpkin’s innards looked messy but the finished product was worth all the fuss. It looked like you had some great time doing it together. Were you able to put a light inside that thing? I could imagine it looking great.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:23 am
I miss halloween already. I can’t belive it’s been almost half a year since that. It looks like you guys had a lot of fun.
September 7th, 2009 at 8:19 am
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