Our family loves Halloween, costumes are picked out months in advance (Matt has planned his next two years worth of costumes) and Christian has even started planning some new yard decorations for next year. We love the fall weather and the traditions that come with the holiday..both old and new.
This year we started our Halloween kick off with a new tradition- Boo Lights!
We have gone to Zoo Lights at Christmas time for several years now so this was a fun change to do something to celebrate Halloween with our family and several thousand of our closest friends. We even lucked out and had a very pleasant night weather wise.
One of our favorite traditions is the Bradley Family Scary food party. It is fun to get together in costumes and enjoy Blood Soup, Witches Fingers, and several other spooky food.
The next week we went to the Bellamy Family Scary food party. This time we dined on monster loaf and mummy dogs.
The best activity of the month (at least in the kids' opinion) is our neighborhood Trunk or Treat. This year they added a chili cook off to the party! The kids loved going to all the cars, some of them even got visited three times!
We added a pumpkin patch into the traditions this year. The kids had fun catapulting apples and picking out the best pumpkins they could find.
On Halloween I we went to two Halloween Parades, I was just grateful they were at two different times! James was a sneaky ninja and sneaked right past me.
We saved our pumpkin carving for Halloween afternoon, not sure we are going to do that again it was a crazy.
Then it was off for a fun night of Trick or Treating!
So that was our Halloween, oh and if you are in need of any chocolate please let us know, we have an abundance.
