Hi everyone, it’s Josh:
I just had my first good ol’ fashioned Gillier country Halloween. I gotta say it was pretty swell. I got to carve some pumpkins and scare Duncan with my ancient Japanese karate master mask. We had just enough kids to take all of the grab-bags that Jackie made up before work, so no one went home empty-handed. Everyone who came wondered where Jackie was. It’s really too bad she had to work.

And now it’s Jackie’s turn:
Halloween is the best time of year. Although this year I didn’t plan a costume ahead of time, I still managed to grab some stuff around the house and make something. I showed up at work as a Poké-Master. No one knew what that was ???

This year was special because it was Duncan’s first Halloween and he was intrigued by the pumpkins. He gave me lots of help this morning when I was gutting and carving. By help, I mean he was eating seeds and getting in the way. Even though he was a bit of a pest, we decided to make a pumpkin just for him. First we tried to get him to claw or bite a pumpkin so that it could be “his.” He didn’t really like that idea, and chose to lick it instead. So Josh found a nice Great Dane stencil online and I carved it into one of our pumpkins. We call it: The Dumpkin.

Lots of love to everyone,
Jackie and Josh