Halloween Traditions

I don't know why I think Halloween is so fun, but I love it! I know a lot of people are against celebrating it or whatever but it's about traditions. And what you teach your kids about it is what they will get out of it. For me, I have always loved playing pretend, or dress up, and Maddi definitely follows after me there. I also love carving pumpkins and it is a great excuse to make fun cookies and other goodies to eat. Plus, just to see how much fun the kids have going door to door and "Trick or Treating" makes this a really fun holiday to celebrate.

We were lucky this year and had a master pumpkin carver join us for the festivities.
Nathan loved pulling the "guts" (as Granddaddy called it) out of the pumpkin. He thought it was so fun.




Maddi on the other hand did not want to touch it.











Even Daddy joined in on the carving fun.


And the results of our hard work. Can you guess which one Granddaddy did? If you guessed the Frankenstein one you would be correct. My spider one was done with a template unlike his which was completely free hand.













The next day Maddi and I made pumpkin shaped cookies from a little kit I had bought last year. She loved decorating them and made some really great faces on them all by herself.
And finally, it was time for us to get all dressed up and go "Trick or Treating".
Maddi was Tinkerbell ( and very convincing I might add) and Nathan was a fuzzy caterpillar.
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He got so into it saying "Trick or Treat" at every door. Although sometimes he got a little confused and would put a piece of his candy out of his bag from the previous house into the bowl at the next house. It was really funny. He would put it in there and say "Thank You". click for larger image
Even I got a little dressed up, (Like I said I still enjoy doing that. Hey, I will do it when I'm 80 if I can get away with it.) :)

And finally the treats I left out for the kids who might come by our house.

Unfortunately I forgot to leave the porch light on because it was lite out when we left so nobody took any candy. It's still sitting out there by the way. I guess I'm hoping someone will come to the door and take it, because we have way too much candy as it is.


(If you made it to this point, Congratulations! You have now read the longest blog ever...As you can see I took a ton of pictures (using my dad's awesome camera) and this is probably not even half of them but I will post some on my facebook as well. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it.)