Halloween Festivities 2012 - Part I

Our jack-o-lantern family: Frankenstein, Oogie Boogie,
a little monster, and a happy pumpkin

 

The Spookamotive train in Sacramento

Trick-or-treat in Old Sacramento for Nana's birthday

 

Here are the jack-o-lanterns before the lights went out.
I love the ghostly white pumpkin; perfect for Oogie Boogie

 

Sutter Street trick-or-treat in Folsom

 

Alina's preschool Halloween parade/party

Elise being bashful and cute at her Halloween parade
 

More Halloween party fun

 

Plenty of Halloween cards and treats
 

Little cutie with all her Halloween party treats, and to
think she's just getting started. Can we say candy overload!?!




Pumpkin Patch Fun at Zittel Farms, Folsom

Zittel Farms in Folsom

Our adorable baby witch posing by her pumpkins

 

Fun place to spend a fall afternoon, the girls loved it there

 

Cutie pies riding in the old carriage, and yes Elise
wanted us to find a horse to pull them around

 

Gramps and grams joined us for the fun

 

Alina posing and being all around
adorable, the camera loves her!

 

Grams and gramps with the girls

Family photo in the "pumpkin" carriage as Elise
called it; how very Cinderella ;)

Grams and gramps wanted the Cinderella experience too!

Mommy and Alina, your carriage awaits



Enjoying another festive fall day!

Little Pumpkin Eater

 

This cute baby witch took a bite out of her first pumpkin.
Ehh, not exactly what she was expecting...Hah!

October Festivities 2012

 

The girls field trip to The Pumpkin Farm in Citrus Heights

Cute little Alina guarding our pumpkins

Alina was only 2-1/2-months-old last October, so this was
her first real pumpkin patch experience; she loved it!

Alina feed the goats, cuddled nana, and traversed the corn maze
Elise made friends with this sweet little pony

More pumpkin patch fun, haunted house and slides!!

October is a very busy time of year for our family. We have three major family birthdays, celebrating three special October babies - mommy, nana and Cousin Jacob, not to mention numerous close friends and their kids. To top that all off it's Halloween time, so if it isn't a birthday it's a weekend filled with plenty of fall festivities. We have already been to the pumpkin patch twice this year. The photos here are from the girls school field trip to the Pumpkin Farm in Citrus Heights, and all of us October babies together at Cousin Jacob's 2nd birthday party. There are plenty more fall photos to come. Despite being on-the-go 24/7, October is still my most favorite time of year. I love experiencing the girls excitement whether we're at the pumpkin patch, a birthday party, trying on their Halloween costumes, partaking in fun fall arts and craft projects, reading Halloween books together (because that's all cute little Elise wants to read this time of year), or just playing at home on weekday after work/school. Happy October fun and festivities to all!

Nana and Elise sporting their 
festive Halloween shirts - love this!
 

Having fun at Cousin Jacob's 2nd birthday party.
Look at his cute monster cupcakes :}

More birthday party fun; the girls enjoy cousin time

Alina with Mommy, who celebrated her birthday
October 3rd...Hooray for October babies!

Halloween Lovers Unite!



The girls sharing a hug after decorating for Halloween

Little Halloween lovers! Alina with her favorite killer

clown baby doll and Elise holding Mr. Severed Head

Halloween tree ornaments; skulls, owls, cats, pumpkins,
bats, spiders, and centipedes, oh my!

Elise picked out this Living Dead Doll,
Calico, to keep Halloween watch over the house :)

Halloween Ghouls - Mummy, Living Dead Dolls,
Medusa and Bones

My favorite time of year is upon us yet again; Halloween time. I must say that we have two huge Halloween lovers on our hands. Both the girls loved helping decorate for Halloween, and neither of them are spooked by all the ghosts, ghouls, skulls, bats, bugs, spiders, severed heads, dead dolls, etc; they embrace it all. In fact, we added two new spooks this year, Medusa and maniacal clown baby. Alina loves the clown baby, she chooses it over her sweet baby dolls. I think it most likely has to do with the fact that it shakes, giggles and laughs hysterically when you press its belly. She has no idea that it looks demented, she cuddles and hugs it just like the other babies :) haha...can we say future Halloween lover!

 

I've also had a bit of fun devising some creative Halloween treats for the girls (with a little inspiration from Pinterest, of course). Ghost bananas and kiwi Frankensteins were a few of the girls' favorites. I tried to keep the treats as healthy as possibly, considering that the girls will be getting enough of a candy fix come Halloween. We also have been setting aside a half hour a night for Halloween coloring and art projects. Elise's favorite has been decorating foam pumpkins with stickers. She likes to make one each night. It's so fun that she is now at the age to really enjoy craft projects! We're looking forward to a month full of Halloween fun and festivities.

This year's Halloween corner display

Living Dead Doll, Revenant - she's glow-in-the-dark!

Kiwi Frankenstein - the perfect Halloween treat

Elise's Halloween art, her coloring skills are excellent

Ghost bananas..yum

Hallloween art overtaking the fridge