Happy Halloweekend!

Saturday night, Brett and Kristen hosted a wonderful Halloween party.  Kristen did a great job decorating her house and setting up the table!

Outside and front entry way

Fireplace and living room decor

Dining room table and buffet

Everything Kristen made was amazing!  The mummy dogs and smoky cheese sandwiches were delicious and so was the witch's brew served from the smoking cauldron.  Just watch out for the eye ball ice cubes!

Don't forget about the homemade pumpkin cheesecake.  I left very, very full.  The giant bowl of candy didn't help that!

It was so fun to see everyone's costumes!

Vampire Host and Hostess

Mario and Luigi

Basketball Player and Referee

Catwoman and Batman

Monk and Beer Wench

Pirates

Miss Piggy and Kermit

Can you guess who Michael and I dressed up as?
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That's right.  We went as Waldo and Wenda!

Michael had fun playing "Where's Waldo?" all night.  (See photos above.)

Group Photos

Today, several of my co-workers dressed up.  It was fun to see more costumes!

Tonight, the Avances came down to enjoy some pumpkin chili, watch It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,  and pass out candy to the adorable neighborhood kids.  It was so fun to see them all dressed up!  I wish we could have gotten pictures, but we don't want to be the creepy neighbors whose house is off-limits next year.  So, instead, you have to settle for more pictures of us.  :o)

When Michael saw how much candy Stephanie gave to the first two trick-or-treaters, he ran and got his "bag" to join in the fun.

I hope you had a wonderful Halloweekend like we did.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Only 54 days (and 1 hour, 55 minutes) 'til Christmas!  (Tim liked to remind our trick-or-treaters of this fact, which all the parents seemed to appreciate!)

Happy Halloween!

On the way home from our camping trip, we stopped at a pumpkin patch up the road from us.  Michael was determined to have a jack-o-lantern for the trick-or-treaters,and this was the closest place we new to find a last-minute pumpkin.  Those of you that know Michael well will understand his excitement when we pulled up and saw this.

Looking for a GREAT pumpkin to be our jack-o-lantern!

Let the transformation begin.  (Note that there are only 54 more days until Christmas!)

The finished product!

We enjoyed getting trick-or-treaters at our house this year!  In the beginning, we thought we were going to have a ton of candy left over.  Then it picked up, and we started to worry that we'd run out.  In the end, we had around 60 kids stop by, and we had just enough candy left to sample our favorites!

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

Season Confusion

This time of year in Texas, the weather is always crazy.  The temperatures can be in the 50's one day and back up into the 90's a few days later.  It's hard to tell what season it is.

Those of you that know Michael, know that he absolutely LOVES the fall!  Every year, he can hardly contain his excitement as he anticipates all his favorite things that come along with fall - football, chili, sweatshirts, apple cider, fall coffee blends, Halloween, colorful leaves, Thanksgiving...I could go on and on.  He is always ready to welcome fall a little before it actually arrives!  Then once fall arrives, he is already anticipating Christmas.

All of this is very apparent today if you walk through our house.  What season/holiday is it anyway?

Summer?

Spring?

Fall?

Halloween?

Christmas?

And don't forget that we are still celebrating Christmas every time we take out the trash, leave the house, or arrive back at home.

How is one to decide with all the great choices?  We decided to go with fall today.  I hope the cooler weather is here to stay!