Halloween is always a fun holiday. I am not a huge fan of Halloween in general.
Coincidentally, neither is Amy. My best friend, Wes, is a Halloween fanatic. He'll decorate his entire lawn with lights and figures and a huge UFO as the crowning centerpiece. He lives in
Hooper now, so I didn't have to help put it together this year. Wow, just wow... is all I can say to that.
I think Halloween is more fun for kids. I mean, who doesn't want to go around and get free candy. I know I did when I was little. Trick or Treating was always so much fun. You always had that one wealthy family (or more if you lived in a wealthy neighborhood) who would give away king size candy bars. There was always that dentist or orthodontist who gave away toothbrushes... and at the time you were thinking, "lame..." But now, I think what a great idea that was. Yeah, Halloween was just a lot more fun as a kid.
Not to say it isn't now. There are still aspects of Halloween I just have to participate in.
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"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." - I have to watch this at least once a year. It is a classic Halloween movie. And we all still laugh when all Charlie Brown gets from trick or treating is a
bag full of rocks...
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"Dressing up" My favorite part of Halloween is dressing up. Maybe I just like being something I'm not... but I have to have a costume for Halloween, even if all I'm doing is going to work. As you can see, Amy and I dressed up. I was a pimp... (it was a joke with our IT manager at work. He and I are the "pimps" of the office because we are so cool.) Amy took advantage of an old dress that was her sister's from the 80s. It is a fabulously sequined teal dress. Amy completed the outfit as an 80s prom queen.
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"Carving Pumpkins" - As I told the teenage checker at Harmon's when we bought our pumpkins to carve, "It just isn't Halloween until you've got pumpkin guts all over your hands." And I'll stand by that. Pumpkin carving is a tradition that dates back to the middle ages. Did you know in Ireland they used to carve
turnips and put candles in them to scare off the evil spirits... Just some mindless trivia I heard on the radio.
Anyway, we carved pumpkins with my mom and sister. Amy likes to use a pattern to carve. I have always taken a more traditional approach, just kind of going at it and creating the simple, cheesy grin of a jack
o'lantern. They all turned out great!
Amy's and my carved pumpkins... Works of art!
And... as a joke I carved a "U" in the back of my pumpkin to represent my attending the
rival school...
Brothers...
