02
Nov 2008
So Halloween this year was pretty good. We started our festivities early in the week with some pumpkin carving. We had five huge pumpkins but a lack of time so only three of them ended up getting carved. Holly decided that it would be fun to do Shrek and I unleashed my inner geek (what’s new?) and did Mario of Super Mario Bros. fame. Emma decided to do an original creation which turned out pretty good. Like every other year, there were lots of dads commenting on how cool our pumpkins were as their kids took our candy.
This year will be known in my mind as the year of the recycled costume idea. Emma decided that she wanted to be a devil, Alex wanted to be a tiger, and Hannah wanted to be a clown. Whether it is dumb luck or just coincidence, we have each of these costumes in the appropriate sizes in our costume box. Everybody was happy and we saved money. You can’t ask for more than that – especially if said costumes yield free candy.
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Category: Alex, Emma, Family, Hannah, Holidays, Holly, Jeremiah
Tags: Alex, candy, clown, costume idea, costumes, devil, Emma, geek, Halloween, Hannah, Holly, Jeremiah, Kids, Mario, neighborhood, peanut butter, peanut butter cups, pumpkin, shrek, super mario bros, tiger, tootsie rolls, trick or treating
20
Oct 2008
If you were to walk into any store these days, you would probably think that the next holiday to be celebrated was Christmas. Contrary to retailer belief though, we actually have two holidays, including one pretty major one, between now and Christmas.
In just a few short weeks, we will celebrate the end of the harvest by stuffing our faces. This holiday is know as Hallowe’en or, if you’re not into traditional spellings, Halloween. Ironically, we will not be partaking of the fruits of said harvest but will be gorging ourselves on sugary confections originating in Hershey, Pennsylvania and McLean, Virginia (home of M&M’s).
On Saturday, our ward held their annual trunk or treat. This is a safe environment where neighborhood kids can run around a parking lot and get candy from people sitting in and around their vehicles. Normally, I try to encourage my kids to not take candy from people that are sitting in their car but for this, I made an exception. We have about 4.3 million kids living within our ward boundaries so, as you can probably imagine, there were a lot of kids running around in costumes.
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Category: Alex, Emma, Hannah
Tags: Alex, candy, candy buckets, Cars, Church, confections, Halloween, Hannah, Hershey Pennsylvania, holiday, McLean Virginia, neighborhood kids, parking lot, tootsie rolls, van, ward boundaries
