Happy Halloween From The Family!

We celebrated early. I waited until today to share the family’s pictures.

Our honey bee is the youngest member of the family at one month old. Her Mom has the crown of flowers. Our little cowboy left his horse in the house. I thought for sure he’d be scared of his daddy but he watched him get made up so he knew who he was.
What a strange trio! Senorita is the only sane one!

Don’t eat the apple.

Our beautiful ballerina!

The one thing I couldn’t share is an amazing light, sound and animation show my middle son did from his driveway up to his house and into the sky. It had to be seen after dark. I have NO idea how he can do things like this. It is going to be a popular place for trick or treaters.

Happy Halloween!

For many years it was a tradition to decorate a full size Christmas tree for each holiday.

It was a challenge to decorate one for Halloween as I did it for my young grandchildren which ruled out anything scary.

Eventually I gave it up as it was way too much work. The biggest part was changing the lights for each tree. I did luck out on the Halloween and Thanksgiving trees as I just turned the face on the jack o lanterns to the back and I had pumpkins for Thanksgiving.

Happy Halloween!

Or is it Merry Christmas???????

Years ago I started something that became a HUGE project.

I had left our full size undecorated Christmas tree up and it was almost the 4th of July.

So just for fun I threw some patriotic paper garlands on it and the grand kids loved it.

Eventually I had tree decorations for Valentines Day, St. Patricks Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, my husbands 60th birthday, a yellow ribbon tree and of course Christmas.

Each set of decorations came with it's own set of lights and a full set of decorations. Do you know how much fun it is to put lights on a tree? Each set had to be put on differently and it was the bubble lights at Christmas that were the most temperamental! The Halloween Jack O Lantern lights did double duty as I just turned their faces to the back and they became Thanksgiving pumpkins.

The local newspaper did several articles about the tree. At the time I started this Halloween wasn't the popular holiday it is today. In time there were other "copy cat" trees by others who had seen or heard about mine.

Eventually I came to my senses and realized how much time I was devoting to this project and gave it up. The memories will always be there and the decorations are safe in bins in the basement in case I ever want to revive the custom.