Hello Halloween

Happy Halloween

   When it comes to celebrating Halloween Carter and I are . . . shy. Our celebration was a few weeks ago when my parents were in town. My family has a tradition to make haunted gingerbread houses! It's pretty much the greatest tradition :) 

   Sadly, this gingerbread house and a few un-carved pumpkins outside our door are my only Halloween decorations this year. We've been so busy that I haven't even put fake cobwebs out. .  . something to improve on for next year. Speaking of decorations...I'm trying to convince Carter to let me buy a small fake Christmas tree since our apartment complex does not allow real trees. I think we need a tree and he can't imagine having a fake tree. We'll see who wins! Maybe I'll buy a fake tree and hang up air fresheners that smell like noble firs. Someday Carter and I will live in a real house and get a real tree and have lots of fun decorations!

   Last year I went trick or treating with my nieces. It was a blast! I wish we could go with them again this year but the rest of our Halloween festivities include a meeting at the University of Utah for prospective nursing majors and maybe a scary movie or two depending on when I get home. I remember when I was little my Mom would always paint our faces and we would go trick-or-treating at my great-grandma's neighborhood. Great-grandma Bean had this fun gumball machine and a old Altoid tin filled with pennies that we used to "buy" gumballs. I want to be like her! (For more reasons than just her gumball machine)

  

  I hope you have plans that are more fun than Carter and I, and you enjoy your holiday!