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So, what kind of mischief does everyone have planned for this Halloween/Samhain, if any at all? I think that my husband and I will probably be watching movies after our usual Samhain festivities. It's our daughter's first major holiday, and it's a little difficult to do much with a two-month-old.
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We have a pumpkin carving party the weekend before, and will be trick-or-treating the kids that night. They all have Disney costumes this year-- Pluto, Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse. All the costumes will be worn over undershirts and pants (well, the baby will just have a onesie) so that they can be schlepped from grandparent to grandparent in the car (not safe to put them in their carseats in bulky costumes.) So I should probably start practicing the on/off now...
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So, this is my first Halloween at college.. And I have to miss it! Some stupid retreat for my German class. Since when do languages have mandatory retreats?? -sigh-
But we are decorating the hallways and I found this awesome severed hand (plastic, no worries) under a bush the other day, so I've been planting that around the dorm of late.
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Monster should be old enough to get Halloween, so I am pretty excited about trick or treating with her. We'll also will go trunk or treating at our ward. And Ren fest is in town, so she'll wear her costume to that. She's a pirate. I would like to carve a pumpkin with her.
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We will be dressing up as Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Planets. There officially aren't seven dwarf planets, but it's exactly what it sounds like.
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Ketchupqueen-that's good advice. My husband and I have a 2 1/2 month old, and have been ogling the cute baby costumes at some of the stores. I don't think either of us had stopped to think of how she would fit in her infant carrier.
Scholarette-I can't wait until baby c is old enough to 'get' Samhain. I'll love dressing her up in costumes though and running around getting candy! How exciting! Of course the trick-or-treat and the pumpkins are fun and whatnot, but it will be about that time that we'll start introducing the religious significance for her.
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We just got some yarn and took it to my grandma (who has a knitting machine) to make my husband's hat for his costume. He's going as Waldo (as in, Where's Waldo?) My dad handed down some clothes to him and there was a red and white striped shirt (Land's End, really nice shirt but oh my goodness, I can't believe he bought that!) that just SCREAMS "Be Waldo! Wear me for a costume!" So he will. The yarn was about $6, the shirt was free, he can wear jeans and shoes he already has, and his mom found some Harry Potter glasses and is sending them to him. So a very cheap and easy costume!
As for me, I was debating going as a tourist but I think I will wear my Cache Valley Drifters t-shirt, jeans, and some boots, and go as a bluegrass fan (beware! We walk among you and look ALMOST like normal people, if you're not paying attention!)
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Me and my hoodlum friends will be scaring the crap out of everyone who comes near, and shooting candy with our slingshots!
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Well, trick-or-treating of course! Since it's a Friday this year, I'm hoping I'll be able to give out candy at home too! I used to love doing that, but being a single parent means I'm usually out with my son during prime tick-or-treat time! I think this year some kids may go later though, since there's no school in the morning!
My son still hasn't decided for sure what he'll be. He wanted to be a construction worker, so I've been taking in the shirt and overalls for that costume (long story). But just recently I found out that I won a bid on a Larry Boy costume on e-bay that I made just on a whim. That's what he'd really wanted to be for Halloween but I couldn't find one earlier in the year. So now I don't know if I'll let him be that instead or if it'll just go in the closet 'til next year.
My son is 4 this year and it's the first time he's really been excited about Halloween. I was actually hoping he wouldn't be, since a good friend of mine is getting married the next day in Chicago and I'd wanted to go to the wedding. :-( But my son has been talking Halloween since August, and I can't miss it! We got a pumpkin today and carved it. Silly me, I thought it'd be easier to do a small one for our first time! I didn't realize I wouldn't be able to get my hand in... and my sensory challenged child wasn't about to touch it! Oh well.. we got it done well enough eventually... (you can cut both ends off a pumpkin, for anyone else who might be a beginner like me) and it looks pretty good for something designed by a pre-schooler
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quote: Monster should be old enough to get Halloween, so I am pretty excited about trick or treating with her.
Um, old enough? The only reason I didn't take my son when he was six months old was because he couldn't hold a bucket. But by the time he was eighteen months, it was ON.*
He couldn't even talk that well. I just told the people at each house that, no, he can't eat candy yet, and Mommy likes chocolate. They thought it was a hoot. We got a ton of candy.
The Very Best Moment was when our fresh-off-the-boat Taiwanese neighbors gave us throat lozenges. It was probably all they had on hand (or maybe they just thought candy was bad for babies) but they looked thrilled to get a trick-or-treater. They were having more fun than us. (Come to think of it, maybe I should have asked for a red envelope.)
*Of course, my husband and I used to get around the "no candy for teenagers" thing by picking up our young-looking friends that didn't have cars and driving them to the rich neighborhoods for a cut. It's nice to have people I can exploit so close at hand now. [Edit for clarification: He wasn't my husband at the time. We were in high school.]
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I suggested that the scouts go camping this year. Several years ago, we camped out in the graveyard at Aurora NV. The town's gone and the property has reverted to BLM. But, many of the monuments are intact. (Some of the graves have sunk, that makes it better) However, the duds that we have in the troop this year would rather go begging for candy.
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Nope, no fun halloween plans. I think I'll see if I can squeeze in some game playing to take my mind off it.
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That is an AWESOME costume! Did you make or buy?
And you look dashing enough to me. (Gee, you look a LOT like my husband. That may influence my view a bit... )
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(And really, the more I look at your photos the more I'm astounded at how much you look like my husband, a little stockier and a few years younger...)
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Nose, eyes, smile, cheekbones, and face shape are very similar.
Ears, hairline, head shape, cheeks are different, but enough is the same that you look related.
Where's your family from? Maybe you have some common ancestors...
I should add that my husband looks overwhelmingly like his mother's side of the family. He looks identical to his maternal uncle, while his sibs look a lot more like his father.
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Only a few ancestors that they know of. But he has always looked Slavic to me. People come up to him on the street and ask for directions in Russian all the time. (Okay, not all the time, but it's happened often enough that he says he needs to learn Russian so he'll be able to help them.)
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I'm having a hard time finding full-on shots of my husband, especially of him really smiling.
There are some from a couple of years ago here; sorry I can't link them individually but you can watch the slideshow or click on individual pics for different views of him.
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You do indeed have many common features. It may be the way I look at people. For instance, I'm always told my kids look like me but I disagree; I think they look a lot more like my husband. I tend to look at the structural features more than coloration, style, etc. To me, you look a lot alike (you look even more like a few of his maternal cousins, though!)
And you're both very handsome.
Him more than you, though, in my opinion. No offense intended, but he'd be hurt if I didn't say it. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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I would like to carve a pumpkin with her.
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