Friday, October 31, 2008

Halloween.....It's a family affair.

I think anyone that knows me, knows that I love Halloween. The last few years I can honestly say that I have a growing fondness for Thanksgiving and Christmas and although Halloween may not always (deep breath everyone) by my very favorite, I will always love Halloween and October will ALWAYS be my favorite month.
Here are some of my fall and Halloween favorite traditions:
Pumpkin patches, pumpkin carving, roasted pumpkin seeds, apples and caramel, apple crisp, homemade applesauce in the crock-pot, my birthday, fall leaf viewing excursions, costume discussions and choosing, making, preparing our costumes, parties, decorating the house, raking leaves, stuffing pumpkin leaf bags, fun homeschool activities on Halloween day, Halloween crafts & projects, candy, trick-or-treating, watching a scary movie after trick-or-treating, sorting and swapping candy and the girls sharing their candy with mom and dad. This year the girls declared that this was the "BEST HALLOWEEN EVER!!!" and I am the
"BEST MOM EVER!!!" I got lots of hugs and kisses and thank you's.
Which is really better than the candy anyway. No, really!

Yummy roasted pumpkin seeds fresh from the oven.
Yummy roasted pumpkin seeds in my favorite Halloween bowl.
Tara's fabulous pumpkin cookies at the Belisle's Halloween party.


The kid's that had a good time at the party.



me. halloweenheather





The Hubert girls and Ness boys on Salena's front steps.
Abram, Miranda, Danelle,
Ethan, Kamiryn and Madison.





And even my sweet non-Halloween-loving-husband get's in on the act.
This year he came up with his costume himself (duh!), and I helped him make it happen.
Whip it....whip it good!
Okay. From October 1-31.....I really do love Halloween.






6 comments:

Charlene said...

this was a fun Halloween this year...and Roger knew exactly who I was talking about when I mentioned Derek's costume.

Lori said...

I love Dereks costume!!! Awesome!! Jim and Jo ran through the cemetary last night. No costumes...just 2 weirdos. Your kids looked GREAT! It was fun to see them all dressed up.

Valerie said...

Love it. Especially the Devo throwback. Great!

Christine said...

I love how Derek's costume turned out, your cookies are darling (I am sure they were sooo yummy, wish I'd been there). The girls are sooo cute. Shane especially thought Kami was when I showed him the picture of her he smiled and blushed. And I wanted to climb through the computer for some roasted Pumpkin seeds. I was crying tonight and telling Ryan that Minnesota was too far away and he said I would just have to go again...yeah! Miss you

the mom~ said...

How fun! And Lori Jim and Jo are fricken NUTS!!!

Christine said...

I love the cemetary...Remember when we used to go at night Heather???