How We Do Halloween

We love holidays - especially the sacred ones.  Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving are our favorites.  We celebrate birthdays with cake and ice cream.  We attend patriotic parades and even go a little green on St. Patrick's Day!  For us, we choose not to focus on the darkness that comes with Halloween, but the fun costumes and the candy! Mike especially likes to teach the kids about sharing as he mandates they share certain treats with him!! 

I am an absolute fall fanatic.  This is my second most favorite season to decorate for!  Once September hits the kids and I pull out all of the fall decorations.  I love that they share in my excitement for decorating!

Our home has fall and harvest touches all around.  I like using light to create warm touches all around.

Lots of pumpkins and scarecrows.  I love that all of these things can stay up until Thanksgiving.  Which happens to be one of our favorite holidays!

Here is some of their new artwork which we created on Columbus Day!  The kids love painting on canvas.  These hand print trees turned out amazing.

Their feet are so big now!   It was quite an adventure painting them!

Each morning and evening I usually enjoy a cup of tea.  In the morning Mike and I have been enjoying this delicious harvest pumpkin coffee.  It was a gift from a dear friend.   Here are a few of the teas I am loving right now too!

We made fun cutouts.  The kids love decorating.  The candy corn ones are my favorite.  Mike and I had to google the color order of the candy corn.  Seriously we made a couple inaccurate candy corn cookies.

Here is a book we read to our children during this time of year.  We like the scripture throughout the story and the illustration of the pumpkin. 

For Halloween we don’t do scary or gory.  This year our children are wearing kitty cat, dinosaur and dragon costumes.   We were shopping last February and Pottery Barn Kids had an amazing clearance event.  To our delight we found costumes in the perfect sizes for our children.  

This past year we hosted a Fall Festival for our church.  It was a great time for families to come together and play games, eat some yummy food and enjoy a petting zoo.  

We hope you enjoy these amazing autumn days and are creating many memories.    There is so much beauty to take in right now.  Savor it and take it all in.