November 2013 – Page 4

This weekend we had a very typical fall weekend.

We gave out Halloween candy Friday. By the way, I am not allowed to do this anymore because I wanted to take all of those kids inside and keep them. We also gave away all the candy except one of the six bags. It was even more fun when our friend’s five year old was over after his adventure in the neighborhood to help me pass out candy. He sat at the door enticing kids to come to the door as he ate candy from the bowl. It was adorable.

We had to barricade the dogs off, but they wanted to trick or treat too. If you didn’t notice, Grace is underneath Crosby as he tries to climb over the bench.

Friends of ours had a bonfire Friday night, which I am not sure can make you feel anymore like fall.

We played in the beauty of fall. Tom and I spent about an hour driving through the woods on base looking for that perfect fall picture. Hello leaves!

We cuddled on the couch watching Scandal last night (and probably today). I have gotten Tom addicted. Yes. While I realize Scandal may not scream fall to you, being lazy and cuddly on the couch is like that moment when you drink hot chocolate in front of the fire thing. So to me it just lounging inside was fallish.

Today was “fall forward” daylight savings.

Hello fall!

Since I wasn’t able to show you fall earlier this year, here are some shots from yesterday. The landscape has been beautiful with the change of fall this last week!

Today we are going to watch the Chiefs, hopefully go 9 and 0! Love KC Chiefs!

Happy Fall Y’all!

I have one Halloween tradition: watch either Harry Potter in its entirety or Hocus Pocus. Some years I have done both.

To be honest, I just haven’t had the time this year to invest all the time to Harry Potter. Plus Tom wasn’t really up for it. Maybe this will be November’s challenge with my upcoming free time.

So I just subjected Tom to about an hour and a half of a moviecation.

He had never seen Hocus Pocus!

Travesty.

So we watched it as we waited for trick or treaters this year.

This is my kind of scary movie. Totally predictable and cheesy.

When I was in middle school, I was obsessed with Bette Midler. I am not really sure where that started, but this movie probably helped with that matter. I did several book reports on her through middle school and high school. Not your typical 8th grade read, but I just thought she was the bomb.com.

This movie is about a kid who reawakened three witches from 300 years ago in Salem. They basically suck the life out of children to stay young. So the whole movie is about them chasing each other around to end the madness.

I love Dani. She is a no-nonsense kid who loves her older brother. She is adorably cute through the whole thing.

Her brother on the other hand; I wanted to punch him most of the movie. He was just a dumb love sick idiot. But you could tell he loved his sister as he valiantly sacrificed his life at the end, so I have to give him credit for that.

My favorite parts are seeing the Sanderson sisters react to the 90s culture and new age inventions like roads and candy bars.

Hocus Pocus

It is a silly film that is all about Halloween traditions and tales. It is very cheesy and for me a must every October. I was looking up critiques of it this year and found that when it first came out, the ratings were awful for it. It was doomed to vanish like the Sanderson sisters did in the movie. However, people like me watch it every year and it has become a mainstay on certain channels every fall. On several sites I read that this movie has reached “cult status.” It’s funny how the DVD and cable market can change what used to be controlled only in the theater.

Is there a movie or show you have to watch to get into the Halloween spirit?

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