Party Planning

Halloween is coming up and I just sent out invitations to our Annual Pumpkin Carving party. It's going to be our first "married" hosting event, so it's kinda exciting. We already have replies for over 20 attendees (many of which are small children) so I'm sure our house is going to turn into another zoo - I guess the wedding was not enough.

When I started having the Pumpkin parties (four or five years ago?), I only knew a few people with kids and those were just babies, so it was more of an adult thing. Now all but a couple of the old-timers have families and some of the kids now actually participate in the creative process (as opposed to just spreading pumpkin guts across the carpet). I rather wish our house were bigger so that we could invite some more kid-less friends, because right now we're almost at capacity. We already have two more families in mind that we want to invite next year and the current crop will have probably sprouted some more rug rats.

It looks like this is going to end up being a with-kids only event. So, if you want a future invitation to a Riha Pumpkin Carving Bash you better start procreating - and hope that we have a bigger place when the time comes.