Wal Mart & Carving Pumpkins

So Kiley has a Book report on Monday (Halloween) she is doing over Repunzel. I bought my kids costumes quite a while ago...so when I found out Kiley had to do a book report and dress up like Repunzel I was Royally annoyed...Costumes are not cheap and those of you thinking..."Well make one"...I had to borrow a needle and thread from a friend of mine to sew something on something I was selling on e-bay...so sewing...NOT my thing!!! SO anyway, we went to Wal-Mart yesterday in search for a Repunzel costume...struck out at both Target and Party City first...It was a LONG day!!! SO we found the LAST Repunzel costume on the costume aisle and before I had left the store...TWO HOURS LATER...I had been asked THREE times if they could have this costume, out of my shopping cart! Seriously People?! Who does that!? Obviously I am buying it if it's in my cart! So 2 hours and LOTS of dirty looks later we got home and started carving pumpkins. Well we haven't carved pumpkins in YEARS, so I had forgotten ALL it entailed. 1 Adult, 3 kids and knives and cutting utensils is not something I would recommend, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The kids had fun and were throughly disgusted with the inside of a pumpkin, lol. But we all had a good time with it. Kiley wanted a "bat" cat, so she helped me with that one, Brendan wanted a Ghost and Bailey's pumpkin was too small to do any of the big ones, so we had to free hand a face, lol. Mine is Supposed to say "Welcome" but I messed up, but Im pretty sure I was destined for failure by the end and trying to do that one, lol. My hand was shaking and I had broken all little knives by the end of the night! But we finished them and lit them up! MAN...Those things smell terrible! Burning Pumpkin insides, lol...It's supposed to smell right?! I went out to turn them off and their were snails ALL OVER THEM...GROSS!!! I HATE Snails! I have salt on hand just for those disgusting little creatures! BLEH!!! So I moved them up by my door and put salt all around them...so if they try to get to them, they will die...sorry! So it looks like I have some sort of ritual going on, lol...Kinda weird, but it worked. No More snails on my Pumpkins this morning! YAY!!! I WIN!!! ;o) So ANyway. I hope everyone enjoys their last week of October! I am ready for November!!! :o)