Halloween

[Kacie_bride]

Since we are talking about holidays-What do you usually do for Halloween every year?

[Kacie_bride]

Even though there aren't many trick or treaters I stay at home with some candy for the few that come by. A couple of years ago I went to a costume party. The year before I was planning on going to a club where they had a costume contest, but I didn't get my costume done in time so I didn't go.

[CindySue]

Dangit Kacie! I cant answer this one......we have discussed doing so many different things this year..........We will probably go to a haunted house, but we also discussed having a Halloween party for the kids and their friends.

[AngelinLove]

Halloween Party...I mean it is just another excuse to party and we get to dress up like kids and eat lots of candy!!!

Here we are last Halloween:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f375/uofdangel/Halloween05.jpg

[Kacie_bride]

Halloween Party...I mean it is just another excuse to party and we get to dress up like kids and eat lots of candy!!!

Here we are last Halloween:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f375/uofdangel/Halloween05.jpg

Oh Wow Angel! How cute is that! Love the costume. Justin would never do that!

[CindySue]

Oh Wow Angel! How cute is that! Love the costume. Justin would never do that!
Brian was Pee Wee Herman a few years ago........:bbconfused:

[WhiskeyGirl]

Brian was Pee Wee Herman a few years ago........:bbconfused:

Matthew has never had the pleasure of doing anything to do with Hallowe'en. THey don't celebrate it in Germany...he is always asking if we can dress up! lol

[CindySue]

Matthew has never had the pleasure of doing anything to do with Hallowe'en. THey don't celebrate it in Germany...he is always asking if we can dress up! lol
Dress him up then........he may not ever let you do it again, but h3ll, hes asking for it!!!!!! Most of us would love to have the opportunity to do this to.....oh, I mean with our husbands!!!!

[JennF]

We usually have a party, but I'd love to say that we go to a costume ball. It sounds like so much fun. :D

[Kacie_bride]

We usually have a party, but I'd love to say that we go to a costume ball. It sounds like so much fun. :D

There is a big one in Houston every year, but I've never been to it.

[ladymelissa]

I usu. hand out candy to trick or treaters.

[KristyGirl]

For the longest time I used to spend the entire day turning my parents' house into a haunted house for the trick-or-treaters. It was always a big hit with the kids and I had so much fun doing it. I can't get up there around Halloween now, so now we just hang out at home, order a pizza, and watch horror movies. We have a lot of kids in the neighborhood but didn't get any trick-or-treaters last year.

[LaceyinPgh]

It is just a day here. I don't hand out candy because the door bell drives the dogs nuts. Besidses I am way to lazy to jump up and down all night. The last few years Sean has been out of town. So, I come home from and do my regular stuff just like every other night.

[MOB Karen]

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/8/8_1_211.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824YYUS) Since I no longer have small children, I just stay home and pass out candy to the trick or treaters. But like Kacie, I didn't have very many come to my house last year. :bbcry: I love Halloween though!!!

[mariaandmanish]

I love to watch all the kids come by in their adorable little costumes! It just makes me think of the days when I will be taking my own little one's (one hopes) out for Halloween. Although, when my sister used to live near me, we would have a Bday party, cause my neice was born on Halloween.

[JennF]

There is a big one in Houston every year, but I've never been to it.

We're going to be in Houston visiting some friends in October or November. Maybe we'll look into it. Ever since I saw Moulin Rouge, I've wanted to attend one of those as a Can Can Dancer. I wonder if that's a little cliche though? Still, as long as everyone is having fun, who cares.

Thanks for the tip!

[rainbowtreat]

Because I have kids we spend it dressing them up and taking them out trick- or-treating. I someitmes will dress up for work. And a couple of years ago I went out with some freinds to a bar where they had a comstume contest. I was a devil, well some would say the devils b*tch lol.

There is one street here in town that at christmas time the whole street is lit up. Every house goes crazy with lights and decorations. Well on Halloween that street is filled with kids. The people dont sit in their houses and wait for the knocks on the doors. The sit on their porches or on the edge of the street in front of their house wiating for the kids. And there is no waiting. This is the only street you have to go down and you kids bags are filled. I have never sen such a crown of people in one place like that on Halloween night.

The mall just up the road ( just a small mall ) has a Little Fright Night on the weekend before Halloween. The kdis play games , do arts and crafts and go trick-or-treating to all the stores. The kids love it.

This is myhusbands favorite holiday. Mine is Christmas.

[WebLady]

I am not a fan of halloween at this point in my life. I celebrated when I was a kid up to until several years ago. But now I just stay home with the lights out ... we very rarely get anyone come by, if we do we just don't answer the door.

[HalloweenBride]

hmmmm...I wonder if I like Halloween? YEP! I usually do up the house and yard in decorations (not cheesy, but creepy) and hand out candy and scare them, along with my parents! We didn't do up the house last year (and won't this year becase of the wedding) but instead went Trick or Treating in my aunts neighborhood with almost all of my family! There were THREE kids and SEVEN adults out there in full costume! it was a riot! one of my cousins went as a pregnant nun! I was a fairy godmother. here is a pic from my work (my coworkers went as a Princess and Prince Charming)

http://static.flickr.com/29/58426589_26ad62f933.jpg

and I always make the boys costumes too!

Luke Last year
http://static.flickr.com/31/53924646_b89ec9f2ae_o.jpg

Daniel Last year

http://static.flickr.com/30/53924647_7ae1900db4_o.jpg


Luke 2004

http://static.flickr.com/8/7640107_e8f872a218_o.jpg

on Halloween, Steve and I are dressing up like a Dead Bride and Groom, and going trick or tricking with a bunch of family and the wedding partay!

[hummingbird521]

This will be our first halloween since getting married. We haven't discussed yet what jerry and the kids normally do. And whether they are with him or their mom. But my daughter and i usually go on a hay ride and to a haunted house together and take some of her friends along. then we hide out at my mom's so we don't have to pass out candy. but that was because i was a single mother on a single mom's paycheck. haha. this year i would like to go all out for the holiday. i am sure the church does something to keep the kids off the street that night. we will probably go trick or treating with the kids and pass out candy and whatever else might be going on in town.

[AllyM1]

My parents live on a farm and their house is about a mile back from the road. Needless to say in the almost 20 years they have lived there, no one has decided to make the treck back there.

My dad always joked that if someone actually walked up the driveway he would give them $25 bucks.

[Amanda&Hugo]

Hugo and I hand out candy- there are a lot of kids in our neighborhood! Last year, Hugo dressed like a scarecrow- flannel shirt, holey pants, and a hat with pieces of cut up brown bag sticking out- and we painted his face yellow with black wrinkles... he sat out on our porch with a HUGE bowl of all types of candy imaginable, with a sign that said "Want some? Get some!" He sat motionless while I walked our beagle (in his little devil costume) in front.

Most everyone was reluctant to come up and get candy, and asked me whether or not he was real, and I always said, "Oh, that's just my scarecrow, go ahead." Depending on the age of the kids, Hugo would decide whether to scare them or not! For little kids, he would just look up and say "Happy Halloween!" and that would be scary enough! For older kids he went, "Blahblahblah!!!" when the last kid in the group came up! Someone got so scared they jumped into our bushes!!

I don't know how effective this would be the second year in a row though. I think we may take a year off from the scary scarecrow since anyway I want us to be Harry Potter and Hermione this year!