Halloween

[TXmom]

Anybody else thinking of Halloween yet? I absolutely love Halloween. I'm really excited about living where we do this year - there are housing additions upon housing additions. Should be a blast! I've always said I like this holiday so much because you don't have to buy anyone a gift or go to your MIL's for dinner lol!

[beth c]

Donna, you are too funny! I bet you will have fun being around so many people. I like Halloween too, I think cuz its in fall and thats my favorite season. I am always looking for fun ideas so share yours and if you know of any great websites please share them too. Thanks!!

[AnnW]

ROFL Donna!!!! I don't tend to do up Halloween much, but I dh and do fight about who gets to stay home and who gets to walk around...we have several neighbors who give out margaritas to the grownups!!! LOL


btw..how was lunch?

[Melody]

LOL
I love halloween. Dh and I switch every year about who goes out with the kids and who stays home. I don't like being home, I'd rather go and check out all the houses done up.
Last year the kids looked so cute. Youngest was Pooh and the oldest was Frankenstien. He looked so cool. It was disappointed that the kids didn't dress up for school, here it is a 'tradition' that only the junior kindergarden's dress up.
I'm not sure what they are going to be this year, usually we get to planning it by Sept.
I can't wait until the kids are older and want halloween parties instead of trick or treating. I would love to throw one big bash for them.

[TXmom]

2 AnnW

Lunch was great! The restaurant was wonderful as far as presentation, but I think I'd rather go to On the Border next time. Dh's tea had a peach flavor to it which was good.

You've got to be kidding - your neighbors give out margaritas on Halloween! To think I was impressed by the news that the street over from us has a weinie roast!


2 beth c

My favorite thing to do is the Halloween phantom, which Pam and David have on this site, and is also on my web page. I'll let you know when I find other cute stuff. I'm giving dh a new digital camera for his birthday on Friday (shhhh - don't tell lol), so we can update the site now!

[TXmom]

2 Melody

I wish my kids would be something fun. We've got about 20 Ninja costumes! Well, last year ds did go as a Nerd, that was cute - I've got that picture on my refrigerator right now.

When are they too old to trick-or-treat lol?! I thought oldest ds (12) went out for the last time last year, but his friends here are saying they're going out, so what can I do? Just have to make sure he doesn't dress up like a punk rocker or something and make people afraid to open their doors!

[AnnW]

Donna...glad you had fun!!

We do a "Boo" which is alot like the phantom thing..well some adults started a "You've been BOOZED!!" lol They put a bottle of tequilla with the poem on your door step and you have to make margaritas to pass out! LOL Gotta love my neighborhood!

[TXmom]

2 Ann W

Oh that is just too funny! Wonder if that would go over down here? Probably ought to give it a year. Don't want to be known as that new family that gives out alcohol! Hide your women and children!

[AnnW]

Donna...it WOULD make you rather rememborable! LOL

[kacee]

Y'all are too funny. Here I am trying to get used to the school thing and y'all are thinking of Halloween. To be honest, it is still to early for me. But I should catch up to y'all soon.


OK Gotta ask!! What type of candy do you get? I always buy my favorite, so I can eat the leftovers!!

(PS. AnnW - I just ate a Krackel.. Yummy. It was just a minature. Now I want another!)

[AnnW]

Donna..if you want GOOD mexican food, not a chain try Casa Rosa in Inwood shopping center on Lovers (great Casaritas!) or the Blue Goose on lower Greenville.

Kacee...yum, but eat just the one! LOL

[KarlaB]

I haven't really thought about Halloween yet, but I love it! We usually go to my mom's and then we meet us with my sis and the dks/cousins trick or treat together. We are never home on Halloween, but I always buy candy!! We also did the "Boo" thing in my old neighborhood (not Ann's version LOL!) and I think I'll do it in this neighborhood this year!

[Amy2]

Originally posted by TXmom
:I like this holiday so much because you don't have to buy anyone a gift or go to your MIL's for dinner lol!

Donna my MIL's birthday is on Halloween!! It's been hard because we want to be with our kids and do wacky stuff, but it's her birthday and she loves Halloween so much and we always feel like we should be with her.

We go insane on the kids costumes. Two years ago ds was a crocodile. My dh made this huge papier mache croc head. It looked like the kid had been swallowed by a crocodile with his little face in there! I told dh we better be careful, or the kid will end up on a float by the time he's sixteen!

We had a really fun Halloween party for the kids last year. We had a fashion show that was a riot. We did all the regular games, and served punch in a cauldron (along with this little witch song "I'm stirring and stirring and stirring my breeeewwwww....tic, toc, tic, toc, tic, toc......BOO!" very cute) We made all the food black and orange, with spiders on the plate. It was really, really fun. We may do it again this year!

All that said, I think you are INSANE to be planning for Halloween already, and you're putting us all to shame!

Amy

[kathleen]

I think about Halloween all the time -- it is my son's birthday. He will be seven this year. We never have any problem coming up with a theme. And we just moved onto my husband's family's farm, so we are going to have a hayride for his birthday.

My mother and her neighbors have a chili and hot dog cookout (plus the main course -- dessert) on her driveway every year. When we can make it, my sisters and I and some family friends go. We all bring candy over to her house -- so any kid who trick or treats there gets a lot.

[KathyT]

What is the phantom? Can you describe it here or link me to your website please? It sounds like fun!

We haven't started thinking about Halloween yet, we have the first day of school, our anniversary, and dd's bday all in the same week in Sept so we will get through that first!