Halloween

Halloween is coming up fast. I love this time of year. Jeans and sweaters, the leaves turn colors, the crisp scent in the air, hot apple cider, pumpkin pies, parties, and the holidays are beginning. Now, most of these autumn experiences are memories of how this time of year is supposed to be - not how it really is here in good ol' Texas. The weather is still in the mid 80's every day, although we did get an awesome thunder storm a couple of days ago that seems to have cooled everything down to upper 70's, which is nice (still not really sweater and hot apple cider weather, though!). I do have to admit that I'm really enjoying the fact that we can go to the park in the middle of the day and not roast. We've been having dinner outside on a regular basis, and one day we even had breakfast and lunch out there too! :) It's wonderful to get some fresh air.
I took some pics of the kids in their Halloween costumes for the grandparents. I'll post those. It's a lot of fun now that Christopher is old enough to understand the holiday. He's excited to be a train engineer, and Naomi will stay warm and cute in her pink leopard outfit. We'll see how long we stay out this year. Last year Christopher was so excited about getting the candy that he wanted to go home and eat it, instead of knocking on more doors. Also in the Halloween spirit, I found a fun candy-making kit at the store the other day. Dave and Christopher made them together, and had a lot of fun. I was wishing we lived closer to grandparents, because then we could have taken some over. Unfortunately, it's not really a good idea to hand out homemade candy to trick-or-treaters any more. So, (poor us!) we just had to eat them. :)




Pumpkins, spiders, bats, ghosts, cats, & mummies