Happy Halloween Everyone

So what is it about Halloween that is so fun? Is the treats? The dressing up? Or is it the family getting together? Well to me, it is all of the above, but don't let me leave out the carving of the pumpkins. It is all fun and I have a lot of memories of Halloween, as a youngster myself, but I must say my fondest memories of Halloween are with my kids as they were growing up. All the different home-made costumes we had over the years and I have to say, I am a little sad this year, because my Halloween chest is gone. Some of the costumes we had were, a clown, baby bunny, and oh a Raisin, with the white gloves and big glasses too. King Cole, home-made spider-man, pirate, Dracula, and many others. Gone in the de-junking, and gone are a lot of memories for 20+ years of Halloween. Makes one sad to not have that old black trunk, so full of great fun memories. Halloween make-up and all the do-dads to finish the costume. I had a skeleton costume, where I had painted the white bones on a black one piece turtle-neck sweater. I had gotten black tights and painted the rest of the bones, down to the toes. The face was all painted, because the kids could never wear masks to school parties, so everything was painted on. By the time the night was done, the make-up had run to the point, that you could not tell what they started out as. By then, they were pretty scarey.

I remember when Jonathan and Christopher were around 2-4 and they were spider-men, but not red, they were blue. Blue tights and bodies, faces and red spider-man t-sheet. I painted their faces and hair blue and it was fun. I remember Jonathan just laughing as I rubbed the blue make-up on his face and neck. I found his tickle spot.

There is the year Christopher was Captain Hook and Jonathan was his Pirate buddy. Benjamin came along and was into the Ninja Turtles and got one of the first store bought costumes and dressed as a turtle. Now when the girls came along, we had princesses only some of the times. One year Sarah was dressed as Dracula and she was pretty scary, but cute. Susie and Sarah were always coming up with cute costumes and liked to follow their brothers.

Well, Halloween is special to me and is full of lots of memories. Every year, during conference week-end, I would get all kinds of Halloween ceramics and from early ages, I would gather my kids around and we would paint these decorations, while listening to conference. I have little pumpkins that have been painted so many times that I am sure they would never break. Each one of the kids learned to paint and some of them became pretty creative. So even though I do not have the costumes anymore, I do have all the ceramic painted pumpkins, ghosts, and globlins. I do have my memories and to do have lots of pictures, with that on my list of to-dos. To gather those pictures and the memories and put them into a book to preserve.

Halloween is alot of fun and this year was no different. We had our annual party, and thanks to Sarah and Dirk for letting us all meet at their beautiful home. For some reason or another, my living room has gotten little. Well I got a new couch with a hid-a-bed and it is bigger then my other couch. I felt alittle sad when I realized that space was limited, but really happy when Sarah offered to use her house. We had lots of good foods and a great time visiting with each other. I made mummy dogs, hot dogs wrapped to look like mummys. We had corn dogs and veggie dip with carrots poking out, looking like a witches hand coming up. Home-made root beer topped it off and it was alot of fun. Nicole hit our taste buds with her home-made baked beans and were they ever yummy.

Monica and Adam came with their kids, and my brother Ted, his wife Donna and their kids. It was just great to get together and visit. It's great to have the hollidays to be with family.

Enjoy the movie of my grandkids do the Monster Mash. Payton is the Dr., Jacob is Frankenstein, Mykenzie is the Bride of Frankenstein, Jaxon is Dracula and Jayden is the Warewolf. It is very fun and just topped off our Halloween party.
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