Keeping the Tradition Alive

I really love family traditions, and my family has quite a few of them, especially around the holidays. During Halloween, my family has always done a fun party, including lots of food, carving pumpkins, decorating cookies, and enjoying each other's company. I've been a little sad knowing that we're going to be missing out on that for a while, but that didn't mean we couldn't have some fun on our own!

So I planned our own little Green Halloween Party. It turned out to be so much fun. Obviously, with our kids being young, we kept it pretty simple, but now we have our own tradition to keep up year to year!

We started with our "Dinner in a Pumpkin," something my mom made us every year. It's basically a hamburger and rice casserole cooked in a pumpkin, but it's really good and the kids think it's so cool.

We didn't carve pumpkins this time, we decided to just decorate the pumpkins we got on our trip to Freddy Hills. This was probably my favorite part of the night. I forgot to take pictures of our finished pumpkins, but I was amazed at how creative Jayda was with her pumpkin. She glued on the tiniest, most microscopic eyes, with a puffball unibrow inbetween them. We got a good laugh, I'll get pics of the pumpkins up later.

Then we decorated cookies. Jayda had a fun time doing that as well, Skyler actually did a pretty good job smearing frosting on his cookie too. Of course, most of it went in his mouth! We also discovered Jayda's love for sprinkles, which we caught her licking off the table! Oh well, it's Halloween right!

At the end of the night, we put our jammies on and watched a Garfield Halloween Special. I'd say overall, it was a great kickoff to a new tradition.

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