After that, I convinced Anthon to go to one of our favorite places- the Hidden Pond.
It's only about 5 minutes away and we look going for a walk there. It's beautiful and there are not many people.
I wanted to take a better picture with better lightening, but my photo model was too impatient... next time..
This is Hidden Pond- isn't it beautiful?!?
The colors were so vibrant that I didn't have to photoshop the pictures very much...
When we came home, we carved pumpkins- it was my first time and it was so much fun that I hope that we will do this every year!
I love arts stuff...
In the morning, we had watched the Halloween movie "A night before Christmas". So I decided to carve Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town.
Anthon carved the Oogie Boogie Monster.
Judie carved Kaylie's Middle School initials.
Our master pieces:
While we were waiting for the kids to come, we watched "The Night before Christmas" (again) together with Judie.
I didn't have a Halloween costume... I was just... a pumpkin... or so..
It really was a fun experience. It was cute to see all these kids in their costumes. Yesterday, I wished I could be a child again... I never got to do that, since we don't really celebrate Halloween in Germany...
But I'm excited to celebrate Halloween at our place next year!
We had one set of German trick-or-treaters come by last night. I wonder if they know where all the Americans live. :)
ReplyDelete.....ja und deswegen haben wir (unsere Kinder) etwas Aufklärungsarbeit geleistet und sind als Piraten losgezogen. Und haben auch "Trick or Treat" gerufen und nicht "Süßes sonst gibt´s Saures"...:-)
ReplyDeleteKathrin Golczyk
Beautiful pictures....Fall is a wonderful time of year. Pleased you find Halloween fun. My favorite adult Halloween memory was putting Anthon on the porch and having him make balloon animals/figures for the kids. The kids didn't want to leave.
ReplyDeleteI love how you too love to frolic in the leaves! One of my fond Halloween memories is from our time in Germany when Dad dressed up like a nerd - he really pulled it off great!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young, I loved watching Halloween movies. We never celebrated it, but they always showed tons of Halloween shows on TV.
ReplyDeleteSo I wanted Anthon to hide in the bushes and to grab the older kids' ankles and scare them, and I wanted to turn off the lights and let our figures make scary sounds... but then Anthon said: " I think you have a wrong picture of Halloween!"
And he turned on all the lights...
I might have a wrong picture of Halloween, but I still wanna make it more scary next year!...at least for the older kids :-D