The fall season is in full swing! I can't believe that Halloween is only a few weeks away! Time flies by! We wanted to share some of our Halloween traditions, and also post some pictures of some of the fun fall activities we have been doing!
Our Halloween traditions:
Tradition #1: Watching "scary" Halloween movies. Some of our highly recommended picks are:
Our Halloween traditions:
Tradition #1: Watching "scary" Halloween movies. Some of our highly recommended picks are:
Disney's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"Who wouldn't fall in love with that quirky Ichabod Crane?
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Snoopy is everyone's favorite, right?
"Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn
This one actually is scary.
"Harry and the Hendersons"
Not really a Halloween movie, but it has Bigfoot in it!
"Arsenic and Old Lace"
Cute old ladies killing people and a guy who thinks he is Roosevelt...
what could be more scary than that?
Tradition #2: Picking pumpkins at the pumpkin patch and carving them. It is so much more fun to actually go to the pumpkin patch with a wheelbarrow and find the pumpkins yourself, right off the vine! We have yet to go this year, but I am sure we will post pictures when we do go!
Our favorite pumpkin patch is on 9000 South, by the Salt Lake Community College campus.
We always pick out one extra pumpkin for our Halloween dinner, and I love to cook the pumpkin seeds we "harvest" from the pumpkin guts.
Tradition #3: "Boo-ing" people. We choose a few families to "Boo," make or buy a little goodie for them, and print off one of each of these sheets:
Then, we doorbell ditch the families we chose. It is fun to see these signs appear all over the neighborhood as it gets going. It is a great way to share in the Halloween Spirit with your neightbors!
Tradition #4: Costumes. This is everyone's tradition, right? We love picking out costumes, and often Andrew and I will even dress up.
Just a reminder of Priya's costume last year:
We are going to keep you in suspense a little longer for this year's costume. Here is a teaser:
Any guesses?
Don't let the looks of this baby scare you. It is one deceptively delicious dish that I dream about all year long!
Halloween Pumpkin Dinner
Lexi makes the cutest lion I have ever seen!
Megan in her Flamingo costume
Priya tormenting, er, I mean, petting the sheep.
This is Priya's "you've got to be kidding me, Mom!" look. Scary, isn't it?
Natalie
Sweet Lexi
On the tractor ride. I think Priya is eyeing my earing in this picture. She yanked it out a few seconds later.
Lexi, Joanna, and Natalie
Natalie, Grandma Petersen, Megan, and Paul doing crafts. Paul and Grandma Petersen came to help out with the kiddos.
Caramel apples, hotdogs, and s'mores:
Joanna and Natalie
Lexi
Megan and Erik
Delicious!
Our backyard campfire
Any guesses?Tradition #5: Our Pumpkin Dinner Casserole. This was my favorite tradition growing up, so we have kept it alive in our family! We make a casserole on Halloween inside of a pumpkin! It sounds strange, but it is so, so good! I am going to share our very special, secret recipe with you so you can start this tradition if you would like!
Don't let the looks of this baby scare you. It is one deceptively delicious dish that I dream about all year long!
Halloween Pumpkin Dinner
1 medium pumpkin
1 pkg rice-a-roni
1 lb hamburger
1/2 onion
1 1/2 cups minute rice
2 t soy sauce
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
Directions:
Cut lid and clean out pumpkin (as if you were carving it). Brown hamburger and onion together, discard grease. Mix together rice-a-roni, soy sauce, minute rice, and soups. Add hamburger mixture. Pour into pumpkin and replace pumpkin lid. Place pumpkin on cookie sheet and bake for 2-4 hours at 350 degrees (until rice is cooked through).
It really is an easy recipe, it just takes some pre-planning.
Some of our fun fall activities:
Some of our fun fall activities:
We went to This is the Place last Friday for their "Little Haunts" day. It was so much fun! They had crafts, Trick-or-Treating, a witch telling stories, tractor rides, etc. The kiddos came in their costumes, but it was so hot that most of them took 'em off. Priya included. Here are some pictures from our day:
Lexi makes the cutest lion I have ever seen!
Megan in her Flamingo costume
Priya tormenting, er, I mean, petting the sheep.
This is Priya's "you've got to be kidding me, Mom!" look. Scary, isn't it?
Natalie
Sweet Lexi
On the tractor ride. I think Priya is eyeing my earing in this picture. She yanked it out a few seconds later.
Lexi, Joanna, and Natalie
Natalie, Grandma Petersen, Megan, and Paul doing crafts. Paul and Grandma Petersen came to help out with the kiddos.Caramel apples, hotdogs, and s'mores:
Nothing says fall better than a nice, warm, backyard fire. We roasted hotdogs and
marshmallows last week with my family, and Joanna, Calvin, and their kids. To make the evening even more festive, we made caramel apples.
Priya gnawing on her caramel apple (I don't think we could really consider it "eating").
marshmallows last week with my family, and Joanna, Calvin, and their kids. To make the evening even more festive, we made caramel apples.
Priya gnawing on her caramel apple (I don't think we could really consider it "eating").
Joanna and Natalie
Lexi
Megan and Erik Delicious!
Our backyard campfire We are always looking for more fun Halloween traditions! What are some of yours?
Priya is going to be a skunk! Little Stinker! My nephew was a skunk a few years ago and it was such a cute costume.
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