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Das pumpkin.

Los pumkinas.

Tru and Heidi had adorable matching Halloween outfits on yesterday that they received from Papa and Nana. I had to get a few pictures, including these:

New photos up! It’s so easy to publish photos with our new photo program that I have forgotten I still need to announce them here! Halloween pictures here. Tru was Little Red Riding Hood to Seiko’s Hungry Wolf, and Heidi was a baby dinosaur. So cute! Touch-a-Truck pictures here, VeggieTales Live pictures here, and the most recent pictures of the kids, starting at the bottom of that page and continuing into page three of that album.

Halloween pictures are up! Click here. Unfortunately, they aren’t very good this year.

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Check out the new halloween 2006 pictures! There is video coming soon too, but that’s Mike’s job!

October 29, 2006 – Pumpkins and Allison
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Oct 1, 2006 – Mountains, Icecream, and Puppy Dog

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* Tru pulling her toy phone around

* Hiking on Monte Sano

* Fun with colors

* Tru eating ice cream

* Tru with a broom

* Tru trying on Halloween costumes

Erata: I misstated the year as 2007, haven’t showered, and had cruddy lighting and camera shake …. I know, I know, but lots of Tru!

Trick-or-Treat! Well, Tru had her first halloween experience. She’ll always be able to remember this wonderfull night as a cold, itchy experience that makes everyone say “awww”.

We actually had lots of fun. Our neighbors invited us on a trick-or-treat hayride round the neighborhood. Using a tractor, the hayride took all the kids around, stoping every 5 houses or so. It was pretty cold.

Pictures are here.

Today started out very unfortunately. Our friend Matt let me borrow his RC cars to play with. While I was driving one around outside, the antenna kept getting stuck on the wheels. I decided to tie the slack off on the body of the car. I tied it right next to the motor. Well, this caused lots of noise on the antenna and made the car not respond well. Just as a car was driving down our street, it crept forward and would not repsond to come back in reverse. The RC car had a wreck with the real car and you can probably guess who made out better.

Next, we ventured off to Susies house for a grand pupkin carving extravaganza. I brought Matt’s other RC car and another man had an RC plane. There was also a air powered rocket.

The rocket in mid-air

Next, we started carving pumpkins. You can find lots of pictures of the event in our photo gallery. Here is the end result.

Everyone’s pumpkins (ours is on the far right)

When we got home, Erin thought it would be cool if it was lit using low power, cool to the touch LED’s instead of a dangerous candle. I pulled out the soldering iron and whipped out this bunch of LED’s connected to a wall plug. The end result was only 1/2 a Watt (12V, 45mA). At our current rate of $0.06 per KWattHour, that means that it only costs us $0.0008 per day to leave our pumpkin on! It would only cost us $0.28 if we left it on all year.

The LED’s

The pumpkin lit up with the LED’s

If you missed the link before, check out all the pics in our photo gallery.