Halloweenie past and present

Hiya everyone.We hope you all had a very Happy Halloween! Halloween is my faaaav holiday! Going back from when I was a kid my parents would throw a huge Halloween party every year and go all out with decorations, lights, dry ice, costumes, etc. I have to admit I missed dressing up and the annual parties with friends and family soooooo much this year!!! We debated on dressing up but decided against it as we just didn't have anywhere to go. You all know the Oingo Boingo song Dead Mans Party... well something about "all dressed up with nowhere to go..." was just a bit more depressing than simply not dressing up. Hopefully next year we will have made a friend or two and can paint the town red. But since we didn't partake this year I thought I'd share some of "The Ghosts of Halloweens past". Enjoy! :)

"Bonnie Parker"

Halloween 01'

"Jesus and Mary"

"Fairy, Geisha, Flapper"

Halloween 03'

Back: "Priest, Sumarai, Catwoman"

Front: "Devil, Pricsilla Presley, Hick"

Halloween 05'

"The Pirates"

"Pimp and Hooker"

"Dick in the box"

Halloween 07'

"Mary Poppins"

Preggers Misty :)

"Dwight Schrute and Rainbow Brite"

Halloween 08'

"The Witch and The Bandit"

"Devil and Breast Inspector"

"Snowwoman"

Halloween 09'

"All dressed up with nowhere to go"

Halloween 10'

Well not dressing up wasn't about to spoil our Halloween fun! We decorated our teeny apartment, carved pumpkins, drank pumpkin beer, ate pumpkin donuts, made a festive Halloween meal and watched scary movies. Here are some pictures of our 1st NH Halloween!

Grrrr...  hehe

He's very scary...

"Candy Corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911." - Lewis Black

  

Chicken and Biscuits!

Nothin' quite like homemade Apple Pie!

Rufus got a Halloweenie treat too

Scary movies

Just 10 mins East of us is the cute little town of Derry. This is where I like to do all our grocery shopping and what not as it has such an old fashioned cozy small town feel. We took a drive over there this weekend to check out the historical site of Robert Frosts Farm. I've been wanting to make this trip for quite some time as I'm a bit of a fan. I even have a quote from his poem "The road not taken" hanging in our bathroom. He lived on this farm from 1900- 1911 and composed many of his poems while living there. There was something extraordinary about this place. It was a bit magical...

Before heading to the farm we had breakfast at this cute lil 50's diner which reminded me so much of one of my fav childhood eateries. Johnny B. Good! :)

Robert Frost house

Magical

:)

Cotton

The Road not Taken?

♥

After our trip to Derry we cruised by Crystal Lake to check out how much the trees had changed since the last time we were there...

All the bright colors of Fall are turning into muted shades of brown... winter is on its way!

I came home to a great surprise... a card from the Bose family! :) I love and miss them soooooo much. My sister put this picture in the card that is now hanging on our fridge. It's one of my favs of our fam from last years Halloween at Bates Nut Farm.

I'll end this post with a pic of my fav nephew! This is him in the parking lot after buying the Robin costume that yes, he picked out! He had to wear it out of the store.... sooooooo stinkin' cute!