Year: 2014

Our neighborhood doesn’t do trick or treating on Halloween.  They all gather on a dead end road and let the kids Trunk or Treat.  This year the boys had buckets full of candy and were all done in less than 30 minutes!  We’ve never been done quite so quickly!  But it let us come home, […]

Once again, I sort of cheated and used our Mr. Potato Head Pumkin parts.  It makes decorating pumpkins fast, easy, and not very messy at all.  One year we will carve again.  Some day. The boys don’t seem to mind at all! Tommy’s Pig Man   Rusty’s Bat Pumpkin Billy’s Harry Potter pumpkin Ricky’s Franken-pumpkin […]

The preschool where I send the boys, always does a little costume parade for Halloween.  The parents line the street as the preschoolers come out, walk in front of 2 or 3 houses, cross the street, and come back.  It is short and sweet and adorable. Tommy was dead set on being a frog for […]

There always seems to be other things I’d rather do with the boys than decorate gingerbread houses at Christmas, but when I saw the orange, green, and purple frosting at the store, I thought they might like making Haunted Houses for Halloween.  I was right. I’ve got to admit, they surprised me at how serious […]

Before Halloween, I took the boys and my mom down to Gardner Village.  They decorate the shopping center with all sorts of witches. It seems I brought a few witches of my own along …   The boys may have been more interested in the small tadpole/fish in this pond than the witches, but I […]