I love Fall

I really do love fall. Too bad it has to be followed up by that icky season Winter. There are so many fun family traditions for us this time of year.

I also love Halloween (well not the horror side of it). I come from a family that has very ambivalent feelings about Halloween. My mother hates it, my dad doesn't love it and my sisters go along with it but they don't get super excited about making costumes and jackolanterns and making tacky halloween themed treats. I don't care what they say they don't get giddy about putting bats and skeleton rings on their daughter's witch tutu. I am the Halloween freak in my family.

Tom and I went to our adult party this year dressed as Calvin and Hobbes

Rebecca was a witch. And I got all crafty and made that tutu myself. Excuse me while I give myself a pat on the back. Craftiness like that only happens once a year.

Lia decided to be a blue haired rapunzel. We are a little twisted around here.

Isaac's costume is my favorite because it was FREE. He made it himself. Here he is with the pack of kids he ran around with that night.

A shot of our jack-o-lanterns.

Yep Halloween is fun. But our playing in the leaf tradition is even more fun. It is an hour of sheer abondonment. Every year I take my kids to the park with all the giant trees and we cavort in the leaves.
This year for the first time even Tom decided to come and while he sat back and watched the fun he also couldn't resist getting in on the leaf fight.