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<\/a><\/p>\nI asked how we should carve the pumpkin and they all had different ideas, so we decided to take a VOTE!\u00a0 It was the perfect way to teach them.\u00a0 I gave each of them a pitiful looking ballot with 2 choices.<\/p>\n The kids did a lot of the carving…and no one cut themselves or anyone else.\u00a0 Praise the LORD!<\/p>\n Our pumpkin.\u00a0 Our GEORGIA-lantern!\u00a0 We made it’s teeth like Georgia’s crazy teeth, so we call it our Georgia-lantern.<\/p>\n Then we enjoyed the very fancy Jack o’Lantern pizza from Papa Murphey’s.<\/p>\n Preston spent most of the time at the dunking booth.<\/p>\n It was a great night!\u00a0 We got so much more candy that I thought we would.\u00a0 In my OCD ways, I have already separated all the candy from the chocolate from the suckers and put them all in their own container.\u00a0 Please tell me you do it too!\u00a0 It’s just a sin to keep candy and chocolate together!<\/p>\n I may have made myself a little stash, and I may have made myself a little sick…already!\u00a0 Self control is not my gift!<\/p>\n Happy Halloween from the maniacs!<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Yesterday I took all four of my maniacs to go vote.\u00a0 I wanted them to see how it worked and explain how fortunate we are to live in the United States of America where our opinion matters.\u00a0 I want them to know the importance of voting.\u00a0 All the sweet little ladies there were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>They voted for the pumpkin of their choice.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>And 2 against 1, the second pumpkin won.\u00a0 However, after the majority won and we decided to carve the winning pumpkin, they had a little amendment.\u00a0 They wanted the traditional toothy grin instead of the curvy mouth.\u00a0 We voted again, and they all agreed!\u00a0 I love democracy when it works that well!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Tonight we dressed in our Halloween costumes – a Dallas Cowboy, a little Cinderella, a “wadybug” and Tinkerbell.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Georgia and her Georgia-lantern.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Our sweet neighbors, Presley and Peyton.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Georgia and cousin Claire<\/p>\n<\/a>Georgia laughing at cousin Garrett’s new braces.\u00a0 She thinks they are so funny.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>-kate<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n