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Monday, October 29, 2007

Celebrating Fall Harvest


We're not much for Halloween, although the kids do know its coming soon. Is it me or are the Halloween decorations becoming more evil and scary? We went through Wal-Mart the other day and came across a dressed up skeleton lifting its head off its body. Prema screamed and luckily Isaac didn't see it. We can't even walk through our neighborhood without seeing skeletons with shackles and things hanging "dead" from trees. When Kyle runs with Isaac through the neighborhood he has to go certain ways to avoid certain decorations. It would be somewhat fun to dress up the kids and get some candy, but not worth the scares that will last for longer than the day.

So instead we have celebrated the fall harvest with our apple and pumpkin cooking and ended with some pumpkin carving on Saturday. Our pumpkins sit next to our dinning room table and are lit each night during dinner until the kids go to bed. We were only using a regular kitchen knife so our designs were limited (I wanted Prema's to have a silly face, but scary is what we got).We'll most likely stay inside on Halloween and keep our lights out so as to not attract any scary looking costumes. We've got enough evil and scary things in the house already (RAD and all it brings out of us) we don't need to invite in any more.

3 comments:

Timothy Miller said...

It's all about the candy...so I guess dressing up like demons is one way to get some candy.

I don't understand our traditions.

djp375 said...

As usual the Dahlks have out done themselves with their decorations. They have added voices to their monsters this year. Prema and Isaac would really have a hard time with their decorations, which have extended all around the house and now they have opened up the garage that is decorated as well.

MICHELLE CULLUM said...

too cute!!!