Happy Halloween

We started off October decorating our house with Halloween decorations.  My brother and I really got excited about bringing out Grandpa Itz and setting up all our decorations.  We started a new tradition this Halloween season, similar to what we do during the holiday season.  Every few nights we drove around various neighborhoods to see all the spooky Halloween decorations.  We saw some scary stuff, but I loved it.  We went trick or treating at our local shopping center the week before Halloween.  It was fun to get all dressed up and walk about in daylight.  That night we carved two pumpkins to help us further decorate our house.  My school had a costume parade on the Friday before Halloween and we even got to go on a pumpkin hunt to find small pumpkins.  Mommy and Daddy came to see me at school.  It was a lot of fun.  That night, we carved a very large pumpkin that our neighbor grew in her backyard.  It was a cool ghost carving.  On Halloween morning, Grandpa John and Suzanne came to visit us and they gave us a bag of treats.  I wanted to eat them all in one day.  On Halloween night, we got to go to Grandma's house where we carved a pumpkin with Joce.  When it got dark, we got into our costumes and went trick or treating around Grandma's neighborhood.  It was nostalgic for Mommy as she trick or treated those same streets when she was a little girl.  We had more fun handing out candy to all the kids who came to Grandma's house to trick or treat.  Grandma made us homemade caramel apples - yum!  We had a great Halloween season and I can't wait until next Halloween.