Halloween

Autumn is the favorite season for a lot of people, so it's probably no surprise that I love it too. The tractors come out to harvest, the leaves turn crispy and colorful, and the air turns sharp and brisk.

My family didn't grow up celebrating Halloween. We would spend the night together watching a Blockbuster movie. It wasn't until I was in high school that our church started the trunk o'treat tradition and by then I was too old to really ask for candy. Pablo grew up in Mexico, so Halloween didn't even exist for his childhood. As a result, our own family together is a mix of uninterested to curious about it. I mean, should we go trick or treating with our kids? Heck, we've never been trick or treating, haha. So this year was a sort of practice year of sorts on which traditions to keep and which we just aren't interested in.
We carved pumpkins. This is going to be a tradition every October we decided. And the kids can paint their pumpkins until they are older. Isn't that cute? The pumpkin on the left is Pablo's, then mine, then my sister Jessica's on the far right. We put PJ to bed so we could lay out the newspaper on the entire floor and just heap pumpkin guts everywhere without worry. All while watching ParaNorman, which was....weird. Haha.

We dressed up as Rednecks for our church Trunk o' Treat and decorated our trunk with webs and black fabric. I loved the trunks that get really into it: music, fog machines, the vans that you have to climb into, etc. So fun for the kids!

Another tradition that I want to do every year is visit pumpkin patches! There are GREAT pumpkin patches here on the east side of Nebraska. They have pig races, pumpkin chunkin', corn mazes, homemade, hot apple cider, caramel apples, and tons and tons of pumpkins! I've seen pink ones, white ones, smooth and bumpy pumpkins. I just want to collect them all and pile them in random parts of my home, haha.

 

We didn't go trick or treating on Halloween night this year. PJ's still really young to care much and Pablo had classes. So it was a regular night for PJ and momma. Except I did watch Hocus Pocus with my sister:) But here's a picture of our little guy with his cauldron that he carried around for the church's trunk o' treat. Cute!