Pre-Halloween festivities!

A recent Halloween tradition for my family is gathering at someone's house for dinner, a movie, and pumpkin carving. This year, the event happened my my little house!

Mom and I rented Coraline, but Ross vetoed that movie choice (he's very picky about the Tim Burton movies he likes). We ended up watching Hocus Pocus, a classic childhood favorite for me and Ross (the parents- mom, in particular- were less than enthusiastic, since we tend to end up watching it every year and Ross and I can recite the entire movie start to finish, haha).

For dinner, mom made an amazing homemade-from-scratch "traditional" chili (no beans and no tomatos, just the way I like it!). My dad contributed delicious cornbread, but after receiving several compliments he declared that it was jut "a box from Marie Calendar and some water." I made brownies, because they have been my family's dessert of choice for as long as I can remember and I am the family's brownie baker extraordinaire (though I admit, my brownies also come from a box).

After dinner and the movie, we headed out to the backyard for some pumpkin carving! Last year (or the year before that? I can't remember now) we carved 4 pumpkins, but this year we decided to share. All the fun, half the mess! My favorite part is that mom and Ross went out to get tea-light candles, and returned with vanilla scented Glade candles! It cracked me up!

My jack-o-lantern is supposed to be a cat, but upon closer inspection it looks like The Count from Sesame Street!

Happy (almost) Halloween, everybody! Have fun and be safe!